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A Greenville man was injured during an assault with a firearm at a home north of town on Sunday, the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office reported.
The two most recently elected members of the Board of Education were selected as chairman and vice chairman of the board on Monday.
Greenville’s City Council ruled unanimously Monday to commit $1 million for an affordable housing development near Dickinson Avenue and Arlington Boulevard.
An order temporarily suspending filing for congressional and legislative offices turned away some candidates who had hoped to begin their campaigns on Monday while some local candidates were able to file.
Events to ring in the season returned across Pitt County over the weekend while participants did their best to shake off the pandemic.
A motorcyclist involved in a Friday collision later died from his injuries, the Greenville Police Department reported on Monday.
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Deputies are investigating the theft of a firearm from a home in Greenville over the weekend, according to a report from the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office. The incident occurred between 11 a.m. on Friday and 3:10 p.m. on Sunday in the 2000 block Long Drive. The gun was valued at $500. The inv…
An 89-year-old Farmville woman was killed Thursday when she turned in front of oncoming traffic, the State Highway Patrol reported.
Events to ring in the season returned across Pitt County over the weekend while participants did their best to shake off the pandemic.
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This was the get-right game for the East Carolina women’s basketball team. And the Pirates sure took advantage.
East Carolina can start gameplanning.
East Carolina can start gameplanning.
Play was stopped when the basketball was wedged between the rim and backboard after a missed 3-pointer from Gardner-Webb. Ludgy Debaut to the rescue.
Kim McNeill is searching for more energy.
Holton Ahlers is coming back.
Gas prices are high. Good! What is our response? Tap into our strategic oil reserves and encourage oil suppliers to drill for more. Why? So that we, the gas guzzling gluttons of the world can hop into our SUVs or pickup trucks and drive down the block to get a cup of coffee.
“I’m going to be saving lives, and they’re going to be lying.” — Dr. Anthony Fauci
Bless our hearts, the COVID pills sound promising. If they are approved by the CDC, the FDA and Fox News, maybe people will take them.
Dr. Mandy Cohen’s five-year tenure in North Carolina public service as state Secretary of Health and Human Services comes to an end.
Can I let you in on a not-so-little secret? The Democrats in Washington don’t really mean it. The Republicans don’t, either.
In rebuttal to the letter on Nov. 27 by the social work students at East Carolina University who rambled on about our police officers lacking self-awareness and are not culturally competent:
FOUNTAIN — “Do you know any happy songs?”
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AYDEN — Seniors who like to socialize take note: the Ayden Senior Center is looking for new members.
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EDENTON — After months of planning, the North Carolina General Assembly recently appropriated $6.1 million for the purchase of Hayes Farm.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department said Monday it is ending its investigation into the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman in Mississippi.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The start of North Carolina candidate filing for U.S. House and legislative seats was blocked on Monday by an appeals court panel — only to be restored hours later when most Court of Appeals judges agreed they wanted to decide whether a longer filing delay was warranted.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina government officials have scheduled a Monday afternoon news conference to announce a major economic development project that likely will be construction of a Toyota electric vehicle battery factory that will employ 1,750 people.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Bob Dole, who overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of his dwindling generation of World War II veterans, has died. He was 98.
HICKORY, N.C. (AP) — If Dick Hewitt isn’t at the end seat at the bar of his cafe, his regulars notice.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country musician Stonewall Jackson, who sang on the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years and had No. 1 hits with “Waterloo” and others, died Saturday after a long battle with vascular dementia. He was 89.
ELIZABETH CITY — Three people, including a 3-year-old girl, were killed and at least one was wounded in an afternoon shooting, according to police.
PILOT MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — A wildfire at Pilot Mountain State Park has burned 1,100 acres (445 hectares) and was about 80% contained Thursday, according to the North Carolina Forest Service.
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BEIJING (AP) — China accused the United States of violating the Olympic spirit on Tuesday after the Biden administration announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Games over human rights concerns.
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — A few dozen survivors of Pearl Harbor and other veterans gathered Tuesday at the site of the bombing 80 years ago to remember those killed in the attack by Japan that launched the U.S. into World War II.
PARIS (AP) — A suspect in the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was arrested Tuesday in France, according to a French judicial official.
BANGKOK (AP) — In sentencing Myanmar’s iconic democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to prison, the country’s generals have effectively exiled her from electoral politics. But that doesn’t mean the Southeast Asian nation is back to square one in its stop-start efforts to move toward democracy.
Stocks rose broadly on Wall Street Tuesday, adding to the market’s solid gains from a day earlier, as investors wager that the new variant of the COVID-19 virus won’t pose as big a threat to the economy as some initially feared.
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukrainian and Western officials are worried that a Russian military buildup near Ukraine could signal plans by Moscow to invade its ex-Soviet neighbor.
CHICAGO (AP) — Outside the courtroom where former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett is fighting charges accusing him of lying to Chicago police about being the victim of an anti-gay, racist attack, his publicist has introduced a roster of supporters to the assembled TV cameras.
The Beijing Winter Olympics open in just under two months and are the target of a diplomatic boycott by the United States, with others likely to follow.
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