On the first day of fall classes, hundreds of students gathered around East Carolina University’s campus to watch the solar eclipse on Monday afternoon, despite some conflicting class schedules.

Near the Howell Science Complex, where the physics department was handing out eclipse viewing…

The two candidates running for the Greenville City Council District 5 seat want to serve their district by tackling big picture initiatives that benefit the city as a whole.

Tom Best and William Litchfield are running for the seat vacated by Councilman P.J. Connelly, who is running for mayor…

Pitt County's Confederate statue remains in place for the near future despite calls from about a dozen speakers at Monday's Board of Commissioners meeting to remove it from the courthouse grounds.

The Pitt County Board of Commissioners took no action after about 15 speakers weighed in on whether or…

Pitt County would be split between three new House districts and one Senate district under proposed redistricting plans released over the weekend.

The state General Assembly is redrawing the legislative districts under the direction of a federal court that found current districts unconstitutional.…

GRIFTON — Einstein was right, as hundreds of visitors to A Time for Science Nature and Science Learning Center in Grifton learned Monday when they descended on the park to view a total solar eclipse that passed over a swath of the U.S., just like the one that proved the famous…

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Blood drives

First South Bank, in conjunction with The American Red Cross, will hold a blood drive from 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at the Masonic Lodge No. 675, 1110 Fifth St., Washington. A blood drive will also be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Washington Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram, 4001 U.S. 264.…

A gun was stolen from an unlocked vehicle overnight Saturday, and two other vehicle break-ins were reported along the same street, according to Greenville Police Department case reports.

A Greenville man reported Sunday that his vehicle had been broken into, and a Springfield Armory XDM .40…

WINTERVILLE — There will be no change to the school dress code policy to allow monograms this year, but the Pitt County Board of Education is committed to revisiting the policy more often than in the past.

School board members opted not to make any changes to the policy after a discussion at…

BETHEL — A celebration of a long-gone but not forgotten high school drew hundreds back Saturday to the rural Pitt County community of Bethel for a reunion that meant more than just sharing fond school memories. Many there were concerned that the town should not follow the path of the…

A dog grooming business at the center of an investigation into the death of an a puppy reopened Friday after 10-day closure, and the owner hopes the investigation will clear the business.

The Greenville Police Department, which is investigating the death of an English bulldog puppy that had been…