The Pitt County Veterans Council is hosting its annual Memorial Day ceremony beginning at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Greenville Town Common, 105 E. First St. 

The event will include a wreath-laying by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Disabled American Veterans, remarks by Greenville Mayor P.J.…

A Grifton man charged with driving while impaired wrecked his vehicle and drove on two rims, according to Pitt County Court records.

Richard Norman Greene III, 25, of 4714 Chapman Drive, Grifton, was stopped at 2:30 a.m.on May 18 near South Highland Boulevard by the Grifton Police Department.…

RALEIGH — Illegal killings and longstanding political resistance have undercut the return of two species of endangered wolves to the wild, frustrating government efforts that already cost more than $80 million but have failed to meet recovery targets.

The number of red wolves roaming the…

Cincinnati powered to the American Athletic Conference baseball tournament championship, beating Connecticut 22-5 on Sunday afternoon in Clearwater, Fla., and possibly setting up as many as five AAC teams to make the NCAA regionals.

The Bearcats, the AAC No. 2 seed that broke away from 4 seed UConn…

WILMINGTON — Emotions rolled over as the second-seeded D.H. Conley baseball team saw its season end Saturday night following a 2-1 walk-off loss to top-seeded New Hanover in eight innings. 

Entering the eighth inning, with the board still void of a run, only one Viking batter, UNC-…

After a dominating 10-0 win in Greenville on Thursday, D.H. Conley’s baseball team returns to Wilmington tonight to decide the 3-A East champion in Game 3 against top-seeded New Hanover.

It was in Wilmington on Tuesday when No. 2 Conley was no-hit by N.C. State recruit Blake Walston in a 5-0…

What is going on with Sen. Lindsey Graham?

Graham — a lawyer, former prosecutor, longtime senator, steadfast friend to the late John McCain, and the current chairperson of the Senate Judiciary Committee — has emerged from his former Republican cocoon, transformed into a Trump sycophant…

"If Iran wants to fight," US president Donald Trump tweeted on May 19, "that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again."

The "threat" Trump appears to be responding to is a statement from Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that "[w]e are certain ... there…

Once again, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is large and in charge. Once again, President Trump is frantic and rattled. Once again, a tough and powerful woman is driving an insecure man out of his mind.

I don't think Pelosi's strategy of resisting a formal impeachment inquiry can last forever, but I…

In a recent editorial, the News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C., commented that “Homelessness is not just about being without a home. It’s about being without a friend, without a family member, without someone who can be your first resort, or your last.”

But what might it actually…

Congratulations, graduates! One day, you'll look back on the past six years and say, "Those college days were the happiest of my life."

Honestly, I'm guessing you'll say that just a couple of days after you leave here and move back into your parents' house. And every day afterward.

Many of you will…

North Carolina likes to be No. 1 — at everything.

We declare ourselves to be “First in Flight.” But it took a couple of Ohio boys to make that happen.

We declare ourselves to be “First in Freedom” based on the May 20, 1775, Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, a…

Congratulations, graduates! One day, you'll look back on the past six years and say, "Those college days were the happiest of my life."

Honestly, I'm guessing you'll say that just a couple of days after you leave here and move back into your parents' house. And every day afterward.

Many of you will…

North Carolina likes to be No. 1 — at everything.

We declare ourselves to be “First in Flight.” But it took a couple of Ohio boys to make that happen.

We declare ourselves to be “First in Freedom” based on the May 20, 1775, Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, a…

Ben Carson is living out a job fear that most people have — that someone might publicly hold them up as unqualified for the job they hold. The U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary is being ridiculed for hearing “Oreo,” the name of a cookie, when he was asked about the real…