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Girl’s best friend

WASHINGTON — Asheauna Pryor loves dogs. Her pit bull, Dre, may be her favorite, but she lights up when a Chesapeake Bay retriever named Lewis is around.

Pirate pair makes history

Making it to an NCAA championship tournament has to be a thrill for any collegiate student-athlete.

  • Coach: Son-in-law to be gets thumbs-up

    Ruffin McNeill always refers to his football players as his sons, but when he comes back from a trip to Jamaica this weekend, the East Carolina head coach will have taken on a different kind of son — the kind with “in-law” at the end.

  • ECU hopes to avenge sweep

    Riding perhaps its strongest momentum of the season, the East Carolina baseball team undoubtedly likes its chances as the Pirates swing into action in the Conference USA tournament today at Reckling Park in Houston.

  • Vikings head to regionals

    D.H. Conley’s baseball and softball teams start 3-A Eastern Regional best-of-three series on the road tonight.

  • Urlacher calls it a career

    CHICAGO — Brian Urlacher wasn’t sure how dominant he could be any longer, so he’s calling it a career after 13 seasons with the Chicago Bears.

  • Conley teams advance

    WASHINGTON — D.H. Conley softball entered the state playoffs as the No. 3 seed out of the Coastal Conference.

Reflector editorial cartoons

The Daily Reflector will feature political cartoons from in-house artist Dave Irwin on each Sunday's editorial page.

  • Editorial: Shelter needs support

    September will mark the halfway point since the city of Greenville and the Pitt County Board of Commissioners formally adopted the 10-year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness.

  • Letter: Not just another holiday

    So many holidays have just become a reason for friends to gather, grill out, drink and generally have a good time.

  • Letter: More amendments under fire

    In discussing the infringement of the Second Amendment earlier this month I asked which amendment would be next. Well, it didn’t take long to find out.

  • Dionne: Generosity of spirit must overrule rigid ideology

    While listening to an NPR report out of Moore, Okla., this week, I was genuinely shocked.

  • Editorial: Promise to remake government

    Leaders in the N.C. Senate on Sunday released a two-year, $20.6 billion budget framework that proposes to radically change operations throughout state government, leaving few areas untouched.

Clark: The dust of childhood

As a boy, a favorite pastime was playing golf with marbles in our Center Street backyard in Hickory.

  • Speller: College students return home

    My husband and I picked up our daughter from college a little more than a week ago after she completed her freshman year.

  • Rutledge: Those narcissistic kids

    The current Time cover story about the “millennial generation” is creating a lot of debate over whether today’s kids are more narcissistic than people of previous generations.

  • Burns: Right to know trumps privacy

    I was 16 when I got into my first wreck. It was on Clayton Road not far from where I went to high school in St. Louis. I had been drinking.

  • Storm: Kill the kill switch

    Anyone who has ever perused a police report knows that cellphone theft is a problem. It’s not hard to understand why.

  • Grizzard: Low pay, long hours — but motherhood is dream job

    Even before newspaper reporter was ranked as the worst job of 2013, I was beginning to have my doubts.

Food banks step up

For months, Greenville resident Becky Woelkers has been relying on community food pantries while waiting for state and local officials to unclog delays in the food stamp program.

  • Fallen officers remembered

    Mildred Jones Daniel Williams stood on the steps of the Pitt County Courthouse surrounded by law enforcement officials Wednesday morning to honor a police officer who died in the line of duty 84 years ago.

  • Burt named Elmhurst principal

    An assistant principal at Eastern Elementary School will become principal at Elmhurst Elementary for the 2013-14 school year.

  • Airport buyouts draw interest

    More than 30 people met with Pitt-Greenville Airport officials on Tuesday night to learn about a proposed buyout of homes along the Greenfield Boulevard area.

  • County officials converge on Raleigh

    About 200 county commissioners from across the state converged on the General Assembly on Wednesday to lobby legislators during County Assembly Day.

  • Workshop stresses preparation

    As hurricane season approaches, emergency management officials said Wednesday they hope the Eastern Seaboard will not see a repeat of deadly and destructive Hurricane Sandy, but it is critical to plan for the worst.

Father wanted in burning of baby

Farmville police are searching for a father they said burned a 3-month-old baby.

  • Police search for shooting suspects

    Authorities are searching for suspects wanted in connection to a shooting Thursday night.

  • Deputies: woman made up robbery

    An Ayden woman who reported to law enforcement she was robbed at a convenience store earlier this month admitted the allegations were false.

  • Dog tracks robbery suspect

    A Greenville man who reportedly held a gas station clerk at knifepoint and stole cigarettes early Thursday was tracked by a police dog and arrested.

  • Police seek info in fire probe

    Greenville police on Thursday reported they have developed several leads in a fire set at Gordon’s Golf, Ski and Snowboard store on Arlington Boulevard but need people to come forward with more information.

  • Police: Dog tracks cigarette robber

    A Greenville man who reportedly held a gas station clerk at knifepoint and stole cigarettes early Thursday was tracked by a police dog and arrested.

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