The following people were indicted on felony charges on Oct. 9 by a Pitt County grand jury. All information, including addresses, is from court records.

Daniel Scott Alford, 19, 121 Fair Oaks Road, robbery with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon for Aug. 1…

A Grifton man was charged with driving while impaired after a deputy saw him driving on N.C. 11 with a flat tire and a disintegrated rim, according to a weekly review of Pitt County court records.

Rakeem Tri’man Boswell, 25, of 4306 Sleepy Fox Drive, Grifton, was stopped by the Pitt County…

FARMVILLE — Four local members of N.C. Baptist on Missions were among the first group allowed into Big Pine Key, Fla. last month to begin recovery efforts from damage left by Hurricane Irma.

First Baptist Church members Dennis McCoy, Tommy Price, Jim Hopf and his wife, Julie, all of Farmville,…

Things have gotten away from East Carolina during the third quarter of football games this season.

Not against BYU, which came from Provo, Utah, to Greenville as nearly a touchdown favorite and left a 33-17 loser to the Pirates during homecoming night for a positive boost for the Pirates to take…

LITTLEFIELD — With a suc­cess­ful reg­u­lar sea­son be­hind it, Ay­den-Grifton’s vol­ley­ball team turned its at­ten­tion to the post­sea­son Satur­day.

The Charg­ers, the No. 4 seed in the 2-A East bracket, didn’t…

John Bream knows how to get a point across, even across the sky.

But the man who quietly gained infamy late last month by flying a banner over Greenville calling for the job of East Carolina director of athletics Jeff Compher was not necessarily expecting that specific outcome.

It sure got people…

In response to Animal Services supervisor Tim Langley’s comments regarding the proposed ordinance to prohibit the exhibition of wild animals in the city of Greenville, The Humane Society of the United States wants to state that our organization is unequivocally opposed to the use of wild…

In response to Ken Soderstrom’s “anti-American culture bites us” (Public Forum, Oct. 17): By all accounts Stephen Paddock was a “law-abiding citizen,” all-around “good guy,” who amassed an arsenal of numerous weapons and unleashed them on thousands of other…

Bless their hearts! Our son’s baseball team takes a knee when someone on either team is hurt. It is a heartwarming sight to behold!

BYH to you people who didn't vote last year. When you don't vote, it's not an act of rebellion, it's an act of surrender.

Bless our hearts, people born in the…

I am sometimes asked if I think the “parenting pendulum” is swinging back, however slowly, toward where it was 60-plus years ago or at least toward a tolerable middle point.

Before I answer the question, the reader should understand that prior to the psychological parenting revolution…

Q My girlfriend and I have been together for almost a year and are moving in together at the end of the month. She’s not perfect but neither am I, and she’s awesome at understanding and supporting me. She’s younger (27 to my 33), but because she’s a lot more mature than…

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Dear Short Answers: There is a couple that lives down the street from us that is very, very heavy. I would probably call them obese. Obviously, I have never said anything to them about this — they certainly know how much they weigh. But I have noticed recently that…

ORLANDO, Fla. – Scottie Montgomery wore a purple shirt with a big gold '70' on the front of it during practice last week.

It was meant to keep in the front of his players’ minds a prediction made by Central Florida wide receiver Dredrick Snelson that his team was going to hang 70 points…

If you’re going to settle in and catch any playoff race this year, today is probably the day to do it.

NASCAR’s playoffs hit the halfway mark today at Talladega Superspeedway. The only restrictor plate race in the 10-race sprint to crown a champion is no longer the elimination race for…

It was senior night on the high school volleyball court, and our oldest was playing hard. At the end of a point midway into the second game, she staggered a few steps and passed out.

She rebounded within minutes with no serious injury, but while she was in distress and whispering, “It’s…