Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Anthony Bourdain gets to travel around the world having adventures and eating great food — his new network, CNN, has already ordered another season of “Parts Unknown.
- Argentine vintners seek higher power
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Argentina is justly known for its malbec, a red wine that can be a great value at any price.
- S’mores season
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Three simple ingredients — a marshmallow, a piece of chocolate and two graham crackers. The symbol of summer and campfire snacking.
- Hellmann’s whips up centennial campaign
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
NEW YORK — A lot changes in 100 years, but the key to Hellmann’s success may be that not much has changed for the mayonnaise.
- Kolasa: Article challenges some conventional wisdom about obesity
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A shout-out to Ed Moore, Sandy Feat and the Raleigh Optimist Club and lots of volunteers from eastern North Carolina for making a difference in the lives of families with a child being treated for cancer.
- Dr. K: Painkillers for headaches can make them worse
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Q I’ve had a headache every day for six months, despite taking painkillers every day. What could be causing the headaches? And what can I do to stop them?
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
WASHINGTON — D.H. Conley softball entered the state playoffs as the No. 3 seed out of the Coastal Conference.
- Whisnant signs with ECU
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Terry Whisnant has signed and submitted a financial aid agreement to complete his transfer from Florida State to East Carolina, according to an announcement from ECU men’s basketball coach Jeff Lebo on Tuesday.
- Pirates rake in C-USA honors
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
HOUSTON — East Carolina’s Chase McDonald and Drew Reynolds were named first-team All-Conference USA, the league office announced Tuesday afternoon.
- Golf adopts rule to ban anchored putting
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Golf’s two governing bodies outlawed the anchored putting stroke used by four of the last six major champions, approving a new rule that starts in 2016 and urging the PGA Tour to follow along so the 600-year-old sport is still played under one set of rules.
- Jordan: Team changing name to Hornets
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
CHARLOTTE — Michael Jordan wants to “bring the buzz back” to Charlotte.
- Conley teams eyeing regionals
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Two D.H. Conley teams will hit the road today, hoping to return to Greenville with spots in the 3-A Eastern Regionals.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
The Daily Reflector will feature political cartoons from in-house artist Dave Irwin on each Sunday's editorial page.
- Editorial: Promise to remake government
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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.
- Letter: Bills could hit wallets
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Republican state legislators have been introducing bills that need careful examination by voters.
- Letter: Consider other murder case
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
I want to take a moment to focus attention on the conviction and sentencing of a murderer and the loss of innocent life.
- Williams: Following environmentalists’ logic leaves opportunity cost
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in their Forbes article “Rachel Carson’s Deadly Fantasies” (Sept. 5), wrote that her 1962 book, “Silent Spring,” led to a world ban on DDT use.
- Editorial: Science center will serve
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Ground-breaking ceremonies are, by nature, celebratory events, but the one that welcomed the start of construction for the GO-Science Center in Greenville was cause for widespread excitement.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
As a boy, a favorite pastime was playing golf with marbles in our Center Street backyard in Hickory.
- Speller: College students return home
Monday, May 20, 2013
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
Saturday, May 18, 2013
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
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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
Sunday, May 12, 2013
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
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Even before newspaper reporter was ranked as the worst job of 2013, I was beginning to have my doubts.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Tickets are $100 and admit two people who are entered to win a $5,000 reverse raffle.Along with a raffle for $5,000, items will be available for auction.
- Resource officer deadline extended
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The deadline for a grant that could result in three more School Resource Officers for the county has been extended, allowing more time for the Pitt County school district to weigh in.
- ‘Too young to be gone’
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
An ECU student killed on Monday in an Arlington Boulevard wreck had written to a professor on Friday that she was happy and excited about her future.
- Oklahoma twister a local ‘reality check’
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Efforts are underway to deploy local volunteers to the Oklahoma City suburb where a tornado ripped through two elementary schools on Monday and left a trail of death and destruction.
- Blueprint for ‘job machine’
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
If North Carolina was a country, it would have the 28th largest economy in the world, but it is using an state economic plan from 1985, two business experts said.
- Four schools appoint principals
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Four schools were appointed new leaders on Tuesday as Pitt County Schools announced some changes for the 2013-14 school year.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A man who barricaded himself in a Charles Boulevard townhouse Tuesday after reportedly robbing a store in Chocowinity has been connected to three other robberies in Greenville and Winterville, police said.
- Would-be robbers fended off near ECU
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A victim of an attempted robbery near ECU early Wednesday was able to fend off two suspects, a campus alert said. No one was injured and nothing was taken.
- Students test bike safety skills
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
WINTERVILLE — Ridgewood students pedaled into a rodeo recently to test their bicycling skills and learn bike safety.
- Man facing more robbery charges
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A man arrested in connection to an armed robbery at a bar last week has been charged him with two more robberies, the sheriff’s office reported.
- Crime: Felon faces drug charges
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Officers responding to possible drug activity arrested a felon after he was found with a stolen firearm and marijuana, police reported.
- Update: Man charged in 3 robberies
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Pitt County deputies arrested a Greenville man in connection to an armed robbery at a bar last week, then charged him with two more robberies.
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