Greenville City Council and GUC’s Board of Commissioners will meet jointly at 6 p.m. on Monday to decide if Juneteenth will be a paid holiday for their workers.
A team investigating cancer deaths of several ECU professors have provided federal authorities with more information about the building they worked in.
A Bethel man has been arrested following an investigation into a shooting incident following a party Sunday morning, authorities said.
A new museum designed to showcase science found in eastern North Carolina’s backyard will welcome its first visitors on Saturday by having dozens of interactive and educational exhibits out front.
AYDEN — Town employees may have a raise in their future.
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I know you have heard from quite a few Pirate Club members and just fans in general with regard to last weekend’s football game. I’ve seen a few responses to emailed complaints on how concessions were handled at the game and I have to say the responses were weak and lackluster at best.
Community leaders joined supporters of Habitat for Humanity of Pitt County earlier this week to celebrate the organization’s 81st home.
WINTERVILLE — Consistency was the word of the day at a public forum on redrawing state legislative and congressional districts Thursday, both in what speakers expect the districts to look like and how lawmakers should proceed.
GUC natural gas customers will see their rates increase this winter because of continuing increases in wholesale prices.
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The Pitt Greenville Soccer Association adult league is accepting registrations for its fall season. There is an 11-versus-11, coed league and an over-40 7-versus-7 league.
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The East Carolina-Marshall game, set for a Saturday 6 p.m. kickoff at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington, W.Va., will be broadcast on Facebook via the CBS Sports Network.
The college football season already has included a North Carolina loss at Virginia Tech, N.C. State losing at Mississippi State and Appalachian State losing last Saturday night at Miami.
In 1983, Tom Cruise starred in the film “Risky Business.” It’s about wealthy parents in Chicago who go on vacation and leave the house under the stewardship of their high school-age son.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is a woman of the people. So much so that she walked past a Black Lives Matter protest outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and joined the starry Met Gala inside as a guest earlier this week.
Kudos to the ECU Police Department. They were able to track down and arrest a potentially violent criminal the same day he (allegedly) committed an armed robbery. They simply followed his movements on surveillance cameras until he went to his vehicle. They got his plate number and it was a d…
There’s no sugarcoating it: More that 50 percent of North Carolina’s school children failed to achieve grade-level expectations last year.
A no BYH to those drivers blaring their loud music. You don’t realize that you are disturbing businesses. It’s an invasion of privacy and hurts people’s ears. And police should enforce noise ordinance in city limits because it’s getting out of hand.
In an opinion piece published in The Daily Reflector Sept. 8, Rachel Marsden described the COVID-19 virus as a “relatively benign virus.”
You have probably seen this one’s bright butter-yellow flowers; the plant is commonly very abundant in old agricultural fields and roadsides.
The title sums up Clint Eastwood’s movie career — “Cry Macho.” Whether intended or not, it calls to mind the poncho-wearing Man With No Name in those classic spaghetti westerns and the flinty-eyed policeman saying, “Make my day!”
For those who lived through Sept. 11, 2001, the drama of Todd Beamer and the heroes of Flight 93 has become an essential part of many anniversary rites.
KENANSVILLE — Moderately and severely immunocompromised individuals can now schedule a third dose COVID-19 vaccine appointment through Vidant Health Duplin.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A former Army doctor convicted for the infamous 1970 murders of his pregnant wife and two young daughters on a North Carolina base has ended his appeal of a lower court ruling that denied his requested release.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Within his first week back at school after a year and a half, 7-year-old Ben Medlin was exposed to a classmate with COVID-19, and he was sent home, along with 7,000 other students in the district, for 14 days of quarantine.
LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A memorial service will be held Friday for Jim Snyder Jr., an attorney, author and conservative candidate for statewide office in North Carolina.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Rep. Verla Insko, the longest-serving House Democrat currently in the chamber, announced on Wednesday she won't seek reelection next year.
Amazon wants to hire 125,000 delivery and warehouse workers and said Tuesday that it is paying new hires an average of $18 an hour in a tight job market as more people shop online.
Fearing his parents wouldn’t approve of his decision to get a COVID-19 vaccine but needing their signature, Andrew signed up for the appointment in secret, and then sprang it on them at the last minute.
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge ordered Apple to dismantle a lucrative part of the competitive barricade guarding its closely run iPhone app store, but rejected allegations that the company has been running an illegal monopoly that stifles competition and innovation.
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A judge formally approved a plan Friday to turn OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma into a new company no longer owned by members of the Sackler family and with its profits going to fight the opioid epidemic.
DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration plans the widescale expulsion of Haitian migrants from a small Texas border city by putting them on on flights to Haiti starting Sunday, an official said Friday, representing a swift and dramatic response to thousands who suddenly crossed the bo…
THREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — California wildfires have burned into at least four groves of gigantic ancient sequoias in national parks and forests, though cooler weather on Friday helped crews trying to keep the flames away from a famous cluster containing the world’s largest tree.
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who fought for independence from France, reconciled his conflict-ravaged nation and was then ousted amid pro-democracy protests in 2019 after two decades in power, has died at age 84, state television announced Friday.
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian soccer great Pelé “took a little step back” in his recovery from surgery to remove a tumor from his colon but he is “recovering well” at a Sao Paulo hospital, his daughter Kely Nascimento said Friday.
PARIS (AP) — America’s oldest ally, France, recalled its ambassador to the United States on Friday in an unprecedented show of anger that dwarfed decades of previous rifts.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — A Los Angeles jury convicted Robert Durst on Friday of murdering his best friend 20 years ago, a case that took on new life after the New York real estate heir participated in a documentary that connected him to the slaying that was linked to his wife’s 1982 disappearance.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Tom Cruise got a sneak preview of what it’s like to circle Earth in a SpaceX capsule.
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