Avoiding ransomware scares and protecting the school district’s data are among the reasons Pitt County Schools has decided purchase a redundant server, officials said.

A redundant server is a backup to the district’s server system, according to Jeff Smith, director of…

Gray skies and the threat of rain resulted in a smaller-than-usual crowd at Friday’s Stations of the Cross ceremony at St. Peter Catholic Church in Greenville.

Still, a group of faithful Christians gathered for what has become a community tradition of eccumenical prayer and commemoration…

WINSTON-SALEM — Loretta Coleman began working at K&W Cafeteria in a time before man had visited the moon and The Beatles were just rising to fame.

Much has changed over the past 55 years, but Coleman’s dedication to her job has remained.

Coleman, 77, has become a fixture at K&W,…

East Carolina made another strong statement on Saturday as the American Athletic Conference baseball leader, this time beginning at 9 a.m. at Clark-LeClair Stadium and then during the afternoon hours in sunny and better hitting conditions in front of 3,655 fans.

The bullpen was key for the Pirates…

As the end of the regular season nears for area baseball and softball teams coaches and players are still fighting for conference titles and are beginning to see if they will have a chance to compete in the state playoffs. Here is where each school’s baseball and softball programs stand as…

East Carolina pitcher Jake Agnos and coach Cliff Godwin had a heated exchange on the pitcher’s mound during the ninth inning Thursday night at Clark-LeClair Stadium, which turned into a more calm and productive conversation between the pair a few minutes later after ECU completed a 5-1 win…

It’s a one-way journey for helium, but a round trip for the ant-watchers.

Every day, a worldwide fleet of 1,800 balloons launches into the atmosphere for the sake of weather science and data reliance.

It’s a daily space race.

In this era of drones and rocket ships, balloons filled with…

Last week, during the daily commute along the ever-harrowing Interstate 81, I pulled into the emergency lane for two brief but important stops. One at 199,999. Another at 200,000.

I wanted to share the momentous odometer readings with the previous owner of the car I was driving. That might seem…

RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH

On Monday, Gov. Ralph Northam announced he would not be delivering the commencement speech at his alma mater, Virginia Military Institute, nor will he attend any other graduation ceremonies this season.

Last week, the governor appeared ready to emerge from his self-imposed…

Maybe we should have had this Mystery Plant back at Thanksgiving: some people think that the leaves of this little tree resemble a turkey’s foot, which for me would require a good bit of imagination.

I suppose that the middle lobes look a bit like the turkey’s toes on the sides, and of…

Cap­sules of movies play­ing lo­cally. New re­leases are in­di­cated with an as­ter­isk.

AFTER — After follows Tessa - armed with grand ambitions for her future, her guarded world opens up when she meets the dark and mysterious Hardin Scott, a magnetic,…

Best of Enemies is the recent release based on the true story of an unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader.

Set in Durham, N.C., during the racially charged summer of 1971, Atwater and Ellis come together to co-…

The refrigerator beeps if I accidentally leave the door open, which I do a lot, but it's a different beep than the one the dishwasher makes to tell me it has finished putting spots on my glasses.

Do I really have to know when the dishwasher is finished with its spotting cycle? Besides, when the…

It’s a one-way journey for helium, but a round trip for the ant-watchers.

Every day, a worldwide fleet of 1,800 balloons launches into the atmosphere for the sake of weather science and data reliance.

It’s a daily space race.

In this era of drones and rocket ships, balloons filled with…

I surrender.

In wartime these words admit defeat and put the speaker in the custody of an adversary. They do not usually gain admiration.

Instead, we celebrate the advice popularly attributed to Winston Churchill: “Never give up. Never, never, never give up.”

We admire the single word…