A Florida man arrested after a standoff Monday had been jailed by local authorities in February but posted bail before they could identify him, the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office reported.
Weapons detectors at high schools and additional cameras on school buses are among increased security measures planned for Pitt County Schools, officials said this week as they asked for state support in keeping schools safe.
The Pitt County Board of Commissioners, with a 6-3 vote, denied a rezoning request that would have placed a general merchandise store near Belvoir Elementary School.
An impaired driver from Wilson was sentenced to at least seven years in prison this week for hitting and killing a man on U.S. 264 near Farmville in 2020, the Pitt County district attorney reported.
The Greenville Police Department is seek three men caught on camera kicking in a door at an apartment in the city's Uptown District, the agency reported.
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Greenville police are investigating the theft of over $40,000 in guns and ammunition from a vehicle in a residential neighborhood off Hooker Road.
Pirate Nation Gives, ECU’s 24-hour online fundraising event, continues through midnight tonight.
Gov. Roy Cooper visited a Pitt County child care center in north Greenville on Tuesday to promote his proposed budget, which includes $1.5 billion in funding for early education and childcare.
Pitt County’s Low Income Energy Assistance Program is nearing its end but still is accepting applications.
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The East Carolina women’s basketball season came to an end on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Martin Zelenka showed off some serious power over the weekend for the Pitt Community College baseball team.
Stellar pitching outings have become a common occurrence over the past couple weeks for the East Carolina baseball team. On Sunday, the Pirates combined possibly Josh Grosz’s best start as a Pirate with a barrage of runs as they piled up a 10-1 win over Missouri State to finish off a series sweep.
For Jacob Starling to be in a position to win Saturday’s game for East Carolina, he knew that his teammates would have to come through first.
Farmville Parks & Recreation will hold a slew of spring and summer single-day sports clinics.
Micah Dennis knew all along that basketball had the ability to take her all over the world. She just had to see it through.
The Supreme Court has successfully been captured by the ultra-ideological GOP and turned into nothing more than a political arm of the Republican Party. Ed Meese and Robert Bork’s Federalist Society have taken over what once was a revered non-partisan branch of government.
The legislature’s bill to ban limitations on gas stoves is little more than a juvenile exercise in Berkeley-bashing. Following 20 other red states, the General Assembly has peevishly introduced a proposal to preempt our state’s local governments from requiring clean-powered appliances in new…
If elections were held today, the biggest and best-known two names would be paired against each other again. One would win and I believe America would lose.
Democrats, you gave the nation in 2020 the most inept and incompetent administration in history. I can’t think of a policy worth its salt you have initiated in the past two years with the exception of spend, spend and more spend as the nation teeters toward being unable to handle its debt pa…
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics just released its latest jobs report for North Carolina and the rest of the country. As usual, the report contained a mixture of good news and bad.
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Proposals in several states would allow or require schools to deadname transgender students or out them to their parents without consent. Transgender kids and their families say the proposals could eliminate K-12 public schools as one of the last remaining havens to explore their identities. The stated aim of the bills is to give parents greater control over their childrens' education. Some parents and teachers argue they have a right to know. But others warn the proposals could jeopardize children's health and safety. And some teachers say the reporting requirements force educators to betray the trust of their students or risk losing their job.
Conservationists want South Carolina to make the Venus fly trap the state’s official carnivorous plant. Supporters say honoring the Venus fly trap isn’t about one extra thing students see on an elementary school worksheet. Instead, it’s to protect and increase awareness of an interesting species found only in the upper part of the South Carolina coast and a small sliver of southeast North Carolina. In all, South Carolina has about five dozen different official state things, such as the state bird, state opera and even a state snack, which is boiled peanuts.
A Virginia man who assaulted police with a stolen baton and used a flashing strobe light to disorient officers trying to defend the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 has been sentenced to more than four years in prison. Geoffrey Sills was convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon, obstruction of Congress and robbery. He has already served a year and a half behind bars since his June 2021 arrest. Prosecutors say Sills threw several pole-like objects at police, stole a police baton from an officer and used that baton to repeatedly strike officers. His lawyer said he didn’t come to Washington on Jan. 6 with any intention to commit violence.
A bill named for a woman fatally stabbed outside a southeastern North Carolina grocery store a few months ago would allow victims of alleged domestic violence to testify remotely. The measure cleared a state Senate committee on Tuesday. Family members of Kayla Hammonds came to Raleigh to lobby for the bill. Her ex-boyfriend has been charged in her death. Her family says some previous criminal cases against the defendant had been dismissed because Hammonds was scared to appear or testify against him. The bill also would expand the statute of limitations on misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence from two years to 10.
Wyoming has pushed to the front of efforts to prohibit the most common type of abortion, with the nation's first explicit ban on abortion pills. In many states women can now get abortion pills prescribed online and delivered to be taken at home. Increased availability has helped pill abortions now account for more than half of abortions in the U.S. Many states effectively ban abortion pills by prohibiting abortion, but none had taken direct aim at them before Wyoming. The bill passed alongside a new, sweeping abortion ban and observers say both measures are likely to be challenged in court.
Four people associated with the Oath Keepers were convicted on Monday of conspiracy and obstruction charges stemming from the attack on the U.S. Capitol in the latest trial involving members of the far-right antigovernment extremist group. A Washington D.C. jury found Sandra Parker, of Morrow, Ohio, Laura Steele, of Thomasville, North Carolina, William Isaacs, of Kissimmee, Florida, and Connie Meggs, of Dunnellon, Florida, guilty of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and other felony charges. In a rare loss for prosecutors, Sandra Parker’s husband, Bennie Parker, was acquitted of obstruction as well as one conspiracy charge. A sixth defendant — Michael Greene, of Indianapolis — was also acquitted of two conspiracy charges.
Federal prosecutors have rested their seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants charged with plotting to stop the transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election. Jurors will still hear testimony by defense witnesses before they begin deliberating. Before prosecutors rested Monday, the jury heard over 30 days of testimony by more than 20 prosecution witnesses. A defense attorney told jurors Monday the Proud Boys did not travel to Washington to “cause a riot.” The case against the far-right extremist group’s leaders is among the most serious generated by the Justice Department’s investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
SHELBY, N.C. (AP) — Jimmy Hall is all about lifting up others, inspiring unity and shining a light on the positive stories in the community.
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Stocks are holding steady as Wall Street bides its time until the Federal Reserve announces whether it will tighten the screws further on the economy. The S&P 500 was 0.1% lower early Wednesday. It’s coming off its first back-to-back gain in two weeks, before the second- and third-largest U.S. bank failures in history threw the industry into turmoil. A few weeks ago, much of Wall Street was convinced the Fed would pick up the pace on its hikes to interest rates given how stubbornly high inflation has remained. With banks straining under higher rates, that's not as certain anymore.
Proposals in several states would allow or require schools to deadname transgender students or out them to their parents without consent. Transgender kids and their families say the proposals could eliminate K-12 public schools as one of the last remaining havens to explore their identities. The stated aim of the bills is to give parents greater control over their childrens' education. Some parents and teachers argue they have a right to know. But others warn the proposals could jeopardize children's health and safety. And some teachers say the reporting requirements force educators to betray the trust of their students or risk losing their job.
BONIFAY, Fla. (AP) — Suspended Alabama freshman defensive back Tony Mitchell drove over 141 mph (227 kph) while trying to evade deputies before his arrest on drug charges in the Florida Panhandle last week, authorities said.
French President Emmanuel Macron says the pension bill that he pushed through without a vote in parliament needs to be implemented by the “end of the year.” He is sticking to his decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 despite mass protests and recent violent incidents in the streets. Macron spoke in an interview broadcast on national television on Wednesday. He said the bill will “continue its democratic path” as the Constitutional Council needs to review it in the coming weeks. It was the first time that Macron spoke publicly since his government forced the pension bill through parliament last week. The move prompted scattered protests in Paris and across the country, some degenerating into violence.
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces Wednesday fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters, mainly retired soldiers, who tried to break through the fence leading to the government headquarters in downtown Beirut.
Ukraine’s president posted a video Wednesday showing what he said was a Russian missile slamming into an apartment building in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, after Moscow's forces launched exploding drones that killed at least seven people at a student dormitory near Kyiv before dawn. Japan’s prime minister left the Ukrainian capital following a show of support for the country, and Chinese leader Xi Jinping left Moscow to bolster President Vladimir Putin. The video posted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared to capture the moment a missile hit the nine-story residential block by a busy road. A Russian official claimed the building was hit by a Ukrainian air defense missile.
A special prosecutor with a reputation for winning complicated cases has been hired onto the case of five white Louisiana law officers charged in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene. But Hugo Holland may be an unlikely advocate for racial justice. Holland drew criticism for displaying a portrait of early KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest. He once sent an email joking about chasing down “a Black guy or a Mex-can.” Holland also is a reserve police officer who has rarely prosecuted police. Union Parish District Attorney John Belton defended Holland’s hiring, calling him a proven winner.
TikTok’s CEO plans to tell Congress that the video-sharing app is committed to user safety, data protection and security, and keeping the platform free from Chinese government influence. Shou Zi Chew is due to answer questions Thursday from U.S. lawmakers concerned about the social media platform’s effects on its young user base and possible national security risks posed by the app. In prepared remarks released ahead of his appearance, Chew says TikTok’s efforts to ensure the security of its user data go “above and beyond” what any of its rivals are doing. He's urging officials against pursuing an all-out ban on the TikTok app or for the company to be sold off.
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