A traffic stop in Farmville led to a drug arrest on Tuesday.
Pitt County Manager Scott Elliott announced Friday he is retiring at the end of the year.
An annual observance to remember law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty took on added significance this year due to the pandemic and ongoing civil unrest.
An attorney representing the developers of a student housing complex said the Greenville City Council needs to eliminate a requirement dictating the amount of nonresidential square footage in the building so it can be open when students return in August.
Gas pumps remained shrouded by plastic bags Thursday but the situation could improve as a pipeline company reported “substantial progress” in resuming operations after a computer hack led to its shutdown.
While the county’s public school system has seen a more than 25 percent increase in the number of on-campus learners over the course of the academic year, it is also seeing a greater interest in online courses for next school year.
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The Pitt County Sheriff's Office has arrested a man in a shooting that injured one over the weekend outside of Greenville, it reported Thursday.
The Pitt County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man in a shooting that injured one last week outside of Greenville.
An investigation has led to the arrest of a man accused of trafficking heroin in the Belvoir community, the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office reported.
Only two weekends remain in the college baseball regular season.
East Carolina’s softball team won the final five games of its regular season and hit three home runs against UCF on Thursday during Day 1 of the American Athletic Conference tournament, but the favored Knights held on for a 4-3 win to end the Pirates’ season in Tulsa, Okla.
The baseball teams at J.H. Rose and D.H. Conley each defeated the other team once this week, and the winning coach Thursday night hinted at the possibility of a third and even more important matchup later this year.
The NCAA will introduce a new layer of intrigue this week in college baseball when it announces a pool of 20 finalists in contention for 16 NCAA tournament regional host spots. There is anticipation and underlying staying power in this process.
Seeing the interaction between American kids and those from often far away places they will never see is, for some, the best part about the Little League World Series.
It is often said a rivalry baseball game goes down to the last pitch, and J.H. Rose and D.H. Conley added another layer of proof to that on Tuesday night.
Serving the people of Pitt County as an elected official in the North Carolina General Assembly has been one of the highest honors of my life. Some days, I get to work and I can feel the unmistakable energy of progress in the air, and other days not so much.
There is a phrase you will be hearing a lot this year: “The big lie.” You will hear it a lot because many Republicans are all in on spreading the disinformation that the previous tyrant actually won the election even though Republican judges, secretaries of state and legislatures certified t…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that births in the USA reached another historic low in 2020.
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With apologies to the late Billy Joe Shaver, I’m thinkin’ ’bout crankin’ my ragged old truck up and haulin’ some gas in from town.
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Gas shortages at the pumps have spread from the South, all but emptying stations in Washington, D.C., following a ransomware cyberattack that forced a shutdown of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline. Though the pipeline operator paid a ransom, restoring service was taking time.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday immediately ended the state's capacity limits on businesses and nearly all the remaining statewide mask-wearing mandates, returning the state to almost normal operations after 15 months marked by COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Lawyers representing two former North Carolina sheriff’s deputies agreed on Friday to a $9 million settlement with two intellectually disabled half brothers who spent decades behind bars after being wrongfully convicted in the 1983 killing of an 11-year-old girl.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Charles Avery had barely started marching when police arrested him, forced him into a police vehicle and took him to jail for participating in landmark civil rights protests that helped change the nation in 1963. He spent days in custody and then lived decades haunted…
A graphic calling the East Coast fuel supply crunch “Biden’s Gas Crisis.” A tweet speculating that gas stations running dry was an “INSIDE JOB.” A meme depicting the president and vice president cheering about the “Green New Deal” in front of a snaking line at a fuel station.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest fuel pipeline is flowing again after the company that runs it was hit by a gang of hackers. But long lines remain at gas stations throughout the Southeast. That's because drivers are buying more gasoline than they need, draining supplies at filling stat…
A graphic calling the East Coast fuel supply crunch “Biden’s Gas Crisis.” A tweet speculating that gas stations running dry was an “INSIDE JOB.” A meme depicting the president and vice president cheering about the “Green New Deal” in front of a snaking line at a fuel station.
CLEMMONS, N.C. (AP) — Motorists found gas pumps shrouded in plastic bags at tapped-out service stations across more than a dozen U.S. states Thursday while the operator of the nation's largest gasoline pipeline reported making “substantial progress” in resolving the computer hack-induced shu…
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s capital city will pay a $10 million settlement for the family of Andre Hill, a Black man who was fatally shot by a white Columbus police officer in December as he emerged from a garage holding a cellphone, the Columbus city attorney announced Friday.
Gas shortages at the pumps have spread from the South, all but emptying stations in Washington, D.C., following a ransomware cyberattack that forced a shutdown of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline. Though the pipeline operator paid a ransom, restoring service was taking time.
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York Yankees player and several team staffers tested positive for the coronavirus although they were vaccinated, the baseball club said this week, underscoring that it's possible to get an infection even after the shots.
More than a dozen states quickly embraced new federal guidelines that say fully vaccinated Americans no longer need to wear masks indoors or out in most cases. But other states and cities and some major businesses hesitated amid doubts about whether the approach is safe or even workable.
NEW YORK — Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, said Friday that it won’t require vaccinated shoppers or workers to wear a mask in its U.S. stores, unless state or local laws say otherwise.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The commission formed to observe the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre announced Friday that it had booted Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt from his seat on the panel a week after he signed a bill outlawing the teaching of some race and racism concepts in public schools.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Early Friday, just after midnight, the Israeli military put out an ominous statement to the media: “IDF air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip.”
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The nine people injured in a shooting in Rhode Island in which some 50 shots were fired are expected to recover, Providence Police Chief Col. Hugh Clements said Friday.
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