Five public hearings involving zoning changes and ordinance language are scheduled for Monday’s Pitt County Board of Commissioners meeting.
SNOW HILL — A double lung transplant is an expensive proposition and, from a medical perspective, a daunting one, too.
Three students from Pitt County are among the record 132 who received North Carolina Teaching Fellows awards for the Class of 2023.
Today, while in a restaurant, I overhead a person stating they were taking a diabetes drug for weight loss and how good they are going to look when the weight was lost.
WINTERVILLE — More than 50 Pitt Community College students were honored for their classroom success and service to campus and the community this month as part of the annual PCC Academic Excellence Awards Ceremony.
A man who court documents said rear-ended a stopped car on Greenville Boulevard was charged with driving while impaired.
Three Greenville-area students earned recognition for their work in an essay contest sponsored by the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter.
Ethan Lenker, superintendent of Pitt County Schools, was awarded the North Carolina Association of School Administrators’ (NCASA) 2023 Raymond Sarbaugh Leadership Award on March 23.
Arts in the Park: Grifton Arts in the Park will be held from 2-6 p.m. on Sunday at Contentnea Overlook Park, 437 Creekshore Drive. The event will feature live music, fun and fellowship, vendors, food and more. The Historic Museum and Indian Village of Grifton also will open 1-5 p.m.
‘You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown’: The Music Department of Pitt Community College will present “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” at 7 p.m. today and 3 p.m. Sunday in the Goess Student Center’s Davenport Multipurpose Room, 169 Bulldog Run, Winterville. Performances are free, but a $10 donation is suggested.
Rich Zeck, director of the Pitt County Council on Aging, and Cyndi Shimer, director of programs, received awards during a three-day North Carolina Association on Aging conference in Charlotte. It was the first statewide in-person conference in three years.
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Amanda Moore had one prevailing thought after her East Carolina women’s lacrosse team finished a recent match against visiting Duke.
The Greenville Recreation and Parks Department is now offering beginner and intermediate pickleball clinics, pickleball leagues and private lessons, as well as open play opportunities.
The J.H. Rose boys’ tennis team kept its spring rolling earlier this week with a doubleheader sweep of Northside-Jacksonville on Tuesday afternoon.
Winterville’s Will Guidry captured first place in the Archdale-Trinity Chamber of Commerce Junior Open held at the Holly Ridge Golf Links in Archdale on March 4- 5.
Daylinh Nguyen-Brown is a senior on the South Central High School baseball team, and he leads the Falcons at the plate and on the mound.
East Carolina’s director of track & field Curt Kraft likens his sport to football in the sense that the teams only have one chance per week to perform. So you better make it count.
If you look at photos along North Carolina’s 330 miles of coasts, you’ll see that rising tides, coupled with beach erosion are destroying once beautiful waterfront properties, causing them to crumble or be uninhabitable.
Right after a 28-year-old shot six people to death at a small Christian school, Rep. Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican, emoted on camera. “Three precious little kids lost their lives,” he said with sad resignation, “and I believe three adults.”
China’s Xi Jinping traveled to Moscow this week to commune with Vladimir Putin, cementing the new axis against the U.S. Compare that scene to President Biden’s proposed fiscal 2024 defense budget, which isn’t serious about matching American military power to growing threats.
Liberals have been outraged, and rightly so, over the war on free speech and thought launched by right-wing activists. As I wrote recently, “a nationwide movement is gathering steam to ban books” featuring characters that are not straight white male Christians.
Former President Donald Trump does not usually play the national anthem when he appears at rallies around the country. Trump enters the arena to the strains of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.” He walks around the stage, soaking up his fans’ enthusiasm and support, and begins his remarks …
To hear her tell it, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is among the world’s biggest Christians, although her definition might differ from yours or mine. Also, a world-class “mom,” to use the word she employs almost as frequently to describe herself.
There is a sponge-mop mentality in this country that has all but taken over the market for cleaning household floors. Its grip at my house has been loosened — along with a lot of dirt and grime.
Phillip Gerard’s latest book, “North Carolina in the 1950s: the decade in motion,” came out in early March.
The amaryllis family is a large group of herbaceous species, many of them producing large bulbs, plenty of basal slender or strap-shaped leaves, and most with a tropical distribution.
The world’s leading role-playing game — Dungeons & Dragons (or D&D, for short) — was invented by two geeks back in 1974, setting off the modern role-playing game industry. Designed as a fantasy tabletop war game, D&D greatly influenced today’s video games.
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States are doling out more cash than ever to lure multibillion-dollar microchip, electric vehicle and battery factories, inspiring ever-more competition as they dig deeper into their pockets to attract big employers and capitalize on a wave of huge new projects. Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas have made billion-dollar pledges for a microchip or EV plant, with more state-subsidized plant announcements by profitable automakers and semiconductor giants surely to come. The projects come at a transformative time for the industries, with automakers investing heavily in electrification and chipmakers expanding production in the U.S. following pandemic-related supply chain disruptions that raised economic and national security concerns.
The military says the service members who died in a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter crash ranged in age from 23 to 36 and were from seven states. A military news release Friday says the service members came from Florida, Texas, Missouri, California, North Carolina, Alabama and New Jersey. Two HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters crashed near Fort Campbell on Wednesday night during a medical evacuation training exercise, killing all nine soldiers aboard the two aircrafts. The crash occurred in Trigg County, Kentucky, about 30 miles northwest of the Army post that is home to the 101st Airborne Division.
STATESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — As Len Strozier of Omega Mapping Services makes his way through the Green Street Cemetery to map it out in a ground-penetrating radar survey, the orange flags he places where there aren’t just signs of where someone is buried. He says it’s much more than that.
Donald Trump is the first former president ever to be indicted, but he’s not the first politician who will have a mug shot taken. Lawmakers arrested on past criminal charges have taken different approaches to their mug shots. While some are somber, others see them as an opportunity to rally supporters who believe the cases against them are politically motivated. New York law discourages the release of mug shots in most cases, though they have leaked in the past. Less clear is whether Trump would seek to have the picture released himself, for political or other reasons.
California and three other states are joining a federal lawsuit against JetBlue over its proposed $3.8 billion purchase of Spirit Airlines. New Jersey, Maryland and North Carolina also joined the case on Friday. The Biden administration argues that the deal will reduce competition and drive up prices by eliminating Spirit, which is known for low fares. The original lawsuit against JetBlue was filed in early March by the U.S. Justice Department, Massachusetts, New York and the District of Columbia. A federal judge has scheduled a trial to begin Oct. 16 in Boston.
North Carolina state government budgets usually include policy or spending directives that give any sitting governor heartburn, and this year will be no exception. But those provisions will take on new importance given a budget must be passed for the coming year before Medicaid expansion in a law signed this week by Gov. Roy Cooper can be carried out. A House budget proposal debated Thursday contains provisions restricting the Democratic governor or his administration on environmmental policy, oversight of the State Bureau of Investigation and election administration. The competing Senate budget likely will have additional provisions that will give Cooper pause.
Carl Lentz, the ousted pastor of Hillsong New York City, has landed on staff at Transformation Church. It is a predominantly Black, nondenominational megachurch in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that is led by pastor, author and popular YouTuber Michael Todd. Transformation is a juggernaut in a town replete with megachurches. The church has confirmed that Lentz, who was fired from Hillsong in 2020 when an extramarital affair came to light, has joined its staff. Lentz, 44, was once labeled a “hypepriest” by GQ Magazine for his fashionable attire and ministry to NBA players and celebrities such as Justin Bieber. He has been mostly silent since his firing.
A funeral will be held this weekend for former Democratic U.S. Rep. Nick Galifianakis, who represented central North Carolina for several years before two unsuccessful Senate bids. An obituary from a funeral home said Galifianakis died on Monday at age 94. A family spokesman told a newspaper that Galifianakis died at a Raleigh retirement community. He served in the General Assembly and in Congress for over a decade. He unseated the Democratic incumbent in the 1972 Democratic primary but lost to archconservative Jesse Helms in the general election. Galifianakis also lost in the 1974 U.S. Senate primary to then-Attorney General Robert Morgan.
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Pope Francis has been discharged from the Rome hospital where he was treated for bronchitis. The 86-year-old pope was hospitalized Wednesday and received antibiotics intravenously. Asked how he felt Saturday, Francis quipped to reporters: “Still alive." Outside the hospital, the pope hugged a couple whose daughter died at Gemelli Polyclinic the previous night and autographed a boy's arm cast. In a sign of his improved health, the Vatican released details of Francis’ Holy Week schedule. It said he would preside at this weekend’s Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square and at an outdoor Easter Mass on April 9. Francis is vulnerable to respiratory illnesses because he had part of a lung removed as a young man.
For this year’s Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Target rolled out its first dedicated Ramadan and Eid, or feast, collection, including decorations. It’s one of the latest signs of big U.S. retailers catering to American Muslims. Many Muslim Americans welcome the recognition and applaud those retailers that are making it easier for them to bring home the cheer that publicly marks some other faiths’ holidays. Still, the issue of Ramadan decorations has in recent years sparked debates about inclusivity and representation versus supporting small, Muslim-owned businesses and commercialization concerns. Ramadan is a month of fasting, increased worship and charity. It’s also often a time for festive gatherings. Ramadan is followed by the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
The military says the service members who died in a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter crash ranged in age from 23 to 36 and were from seven states. A military news release Friday says the service members came from Florida, Texas, Missouri, California, North Carolina, Alabama and New Jersey. Two HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters crashed near Fort Campbell on Wednesday night during a medical evacuation training exercise, killing all nine soldiers aboard the two aircrafts. The crash occurred in Trigg County, Kentucky, about 30 miles northwest of the Army post that is home to the 101st Airborne Division.
Unrelenting tornadoes that tore through parts of the South and Midwest have killed at least 10 people. The storms shredded homes and shopping centers and collapsed a theater roof during a heavy metal concert in Illinois. Emergency responders across the region counted the dead and surveyed the damage Saturday morning after tornadoes touched down into the night. They were part of a sprawling storm system that also brought wildfires to the southern Plains and blizzard conditions to the Upper Midwest. A coroner says the dead included four in the small town of Wynne, Arkansas. Other deaths were reported in Alabama, Illinois, Indiana and the Little Rock area.
Ukraine’s top security agency has notified a top Orthodox priest that he is suspected of justifying Russia’s aggression amid a bitter dispute over a famed Orthodox monastery. Metropolitan Pavel is the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, Ukraine’s most revered Orthodox site. He has strongly resisted an order from Ukrainian authorities for the monks to vacate the complex. Earlier in the week, the metropolitan cursed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, threatening him with damnation. Facing a court hearing in the Ukrainian capital, he strongly rejected the claim by the Security Service of Ukraine that he condoned Russia’s invasion. The SBU asked a court on Saturday to put him under house arrest pending an investigation.
Caitlin Clark had another sensational game with 41 points to help Iowa spoil South Carolina’s perfect season with a 77-73 victory in the Final Four. The spectacular junior guard set a record for the highest-scoring semifinal game and became the first women’s player to post back-to-back 40-point games in the NCAA Tournament. She now has the Hawkeyes in a spot they’ve never been in before — one victory away from a national championship. They’ll have to beat another SEC team to do that as Iowa will face LSU in the title game on Sunday afternoon after the Tigers beat Virginia Tech in the other national semifinal. The loss ended a tremendous season for the defending champion Gamecocks. They finished 36-1.
Sixteen Alaska Native men are being honored for rescuing the crew of a U.S. Navy plane shot down over the Bering Strait by Soviet fighter jets nearly 70 years ago. The plane made a controlled crash landing on Alaska's St. Lawrence Island. The Alaska Natives saw the crash and eventually got all 11 men back to the village of Gambell alive, where they were treated for their wounds before being returned to Anchorage. The Siberian Yupik Eskimo rescuers received letters, but family members over the years said that wasn't enough. This week, the Alaska National Guard presented them with Alaska Heroism Medals.
A mother charged with murder in the deaths of her two children is set to stand trial in Idaho. The proceedings against Lori Vallow Daybell beginning Monday could reveal new details in the strange, doomsday-focused case. Vallow Daybell is charged in the killings of 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan. She's also charged in the death of her husband's previous wife. Vallow Daybell has pleaded not guilty and her attorneys say she has an alibi. Her ex-husband told police she had religious delusions and a close friend said she referred to her children as “zombies” before they were killed.
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