Dozens of teens who spent Monday’s National Day of Service at the community orchard were not there to prune trees or harvest a crop. They gathered on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to cultivate a better understanding of one another, despite their differences.
Local groups celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a march honoring King’s memory and by sharing the struggles African Americans still face in America today.
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The Pitt County DA and his ADs need to get to work along with local law enforcement officers. 2020 was an awful year for murders. 2021 is not off to a good start with a shooting at the mall. Did we implement community policing already or what? Has the DA won a case or does he stay in the com…
The following deeds of trust were recorded with the Pitt County Registrar of Deeds from Dec. 17-23:
The following new corporations in Pitt and neighboring counties filed Dec. 14-18 with the N.C. Secretary of State’s office:
Montano named housing counselor for shelter
Melvin Brice lived through the Great Depression and World War II, but friends and family were not sure he would survive 2020.
Pitt County Schools’ new COVID-19 reporting system shows 241 students and staff members had the virus as over the last two weeks. The numbers, for Jan. 2-15, include both in-person and virtual students and staff.
Vidant Health is one of 21 providers the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is partnering with to stage large-scale community vaccinations.
A disarrayed performance by East Carolina’s women’s basketball team Saturday in a home loss to Houston, which effectively used pressure defense, led to Pirate coach Kim McNeill saying her team looked uncharacteristically flustered on offense during its fourth straight defeat.
East Carolina men’s basketball head coach Joe Dooley tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday.
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East Carolina was the final team listed Monday in the D1Baseball.com preseason rankings, checking in at No. 25.
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College athletics directors and conference commissioners have not had much time this school year to laze in successes, like the simple fact of making it through an entire football season.
Greenville’s biggest high school rivals have done battle on virtually every sports stage imaginable.
East Carolina slipped from a three-way tie with Houston and Tulane in the American Athletic Conference women's basketball standings when it lost 66-56 to Houston in Minges Coliseum on Saturday.
I offer a BYH to last year and to this year with these words: I took a poll, I asked/”Which year was the worst?/Also, which year did you welcome most/On January first?”/The answers to both questions/Offer a bit of wordplay fun:/They’re spelled different but sound alike:/2020 won and 2021!
I have strong opinions — but not about how to perform brain surgery, write a smart-phone app, design a golf course, or produce a hip-hop album. Perhaps you do have a strong view about one of these, but almost certainly not about all four.
Members of Congress as well as Vice President Mike Pence are not paranoid — “they” really are coming after them. But who are “they?” Nearly half of the nation still supports Trump, and perhaps half of them are ardent, and perhaps half of the ardent are militant. Who knows?
The Pitt County DA and his ADs need to get to work along with local law enforcement officers. 2020 was an awful year for murders. 2021 is not off to a good start with a shooting at the mall. Did we implement community policing already or what? Has the DA won a case or does he stay in the com…
I am sure that most of us are carefully monitoring the “bless your heart” section of the newspaper to garner some important data.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina are investigating the death of a 14-year-old bicyclist who was hit by a car.
ROANOKE RAPIDS, N.C. (AP) — Four North Carolina men are facing charges after a police officer who pulled their car over for speeding found a body in the trunk.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — These North Carolina lotteries were drawn Monday:
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Some 10 million children in war-ravaged Afghanistan are at risk of not having enough food to eat in 2021, a humanitarian organization said Tuesday, and called for billions in new funds for aid.
DETROIT (AP) — The resiliency, culture and heroism of Black Americans and the African diaspora will be the central theme of a virtual event that will celebrate the nation’s diversity on the eve of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris pitched in on Martin Luther King Jr. Day service projects as a militarized and jittery Washington prepared for a swearing-in that will play out under extraordinary security.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Inside hospital rooms across America, where the sick are alone without family to comfort them, the grim task of offering solace falls to overworked and emotionally drained hospital chaplains who are dealing with more death than they’ve ever seen.
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Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley has ruled out any change in the best-of-five set format for men’s singles matches at the season-opening tennis major as three more COVID-19 cases were reported among the international arrivals for the tournament.
BEIJING (AP) — China was dealing with coronavirus outbreaks across its frigid northeast on Tuesday, prompting additional lockdowns and travel bans ahead of next month's Lunar New Year holiday.
BEIJING — China is now dealing with coronavirus outbreaks across its frigid northeast, prompting additional lockdowns and travel bans.
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