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For the 10th consecutive year, East Carolina University’s focus on diversity and inclusiveness has been recognized with the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award.
BYH to the Democratic party, I have realized after a lifetime of being one, that you're the party of diversions, fake racism, smoke screens and hypocrisy. By your standards of today, John and Robert Kennedy would be Republican.
Fairfax joins Convention & Visitors Authority Board
The Greenville Utilities Commission (GUC) Water Treatment Plant was among 64 water treatment plants, and one of just six east of Interstate 95, honored by the N.C. Division of Water Resources for surpassing federal and state drinking water standards.
The following new corporations in Pitt and neighboring counties filed Aug. 9-13 with the N.C. Secretary of State’s office:
The following deeds were recorded with the Pitt County Register of Deeds from July 29-Aug. 4. Each $2 in revenue stamps is equal to $1,000 in valuation. (No fee required.)
The following deeds of trust were recorded with the Pitt County Register of Deeds from Aug. 26-Sept. 1:
The N.C. Department of Transportation this week will convert intersections in Winterville and Stokes into all-way stops to improve safety.
Oregon is legalizing magic mushrooms. I think you get some kind of high from eating them. Or maybe it is a "trip." I get the same thing from hot doughnuts. Those doughnuts seem to make the world a little nicer. My wife is almost civil to me when I bring home a box of warm doughnuts. Almost.
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The East Carolina football team has posted consecutive wins in each of coach Mike Houston's three seasons, finalizing it this year with a 31-28 tight victory over Charleston Southern on Saturday night.
The East Carolina football team is 2-2 after holding on for a 31-28 win over Charleston Southern. Here's the opening statement from coach Mike Houston on Saturday night from Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium:
From the end zone, here is video of coach Mike Houston leading the East Carolina football team onto the field Saturday before taking on Charleston Southern at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium for this year's "paint it gold" game. ECU won 31-28.
The East Carolina football team’s lone matchup against a Football Championship Subdivision opponent, Charleston Southern, is at 6 p.m. on Saturday in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. The broadcast is on ESPN+.
WASHINGTON, N.C. — The Beaufort County Community College Foundation-Nutrien 27th Annual Invitational Golf Tournament for Scholarships enjoyed perfect weather at the Cypress Landing Golf Club on Sept. 10.
This year’s East Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame class consists of six individuals, including former Pirate Club president and philanthropist Bill Clark and former football player and coach Ruffin McNeill.
BYH to the Democratic party, I have realized after a lifetime of being one, that you're the party of diversions, fake racism, smoke screens and hypocrisy. By your standards of today, John and Robert Kennedy would be Republican.
Oregon is legalizing magic mushrooms. I think you get some kind of high from eating them. Or maybe it is a "trip." I get the same thing from hot doughnuts. Those doughnuts seem to make the world a little nicer. My wife is almost civil to me when I bring home a box of warm doughnuts. Almost.
The last month has provided a great inflection point for our country. As the war in Afghanistan ended and the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11 passed, many Americans have reflected on our country’s standing in the world. For many of us, we have mixed feelings about what America looks like today.
Bobby Burns’ article “The Time for Unity is Now” was spot on. Unfortunately when you have contributors like Bill Redding, Dewey Funkhouser and Robert Tyson reach out for unity with an ax instead of an olive branch it makes it pretty hard. Bill’s attack on this “white Christian nation” is abs…
A no BYH to the person complaining about the person writing about car noises. You know what the beef is? People like you who can’t take criticism or suggestions. You get over it! Some people do not like loud, vibrating noises! Especially in the middle of the night. Think about that and I hop…
Food insecurity in the United States continues to hold steady at its highest-ever rate. One in nine people in our nation faces hunger, and the issue has only worsened throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the official start of autumn comes a time to be aware of another kind of fall.
East Carolina University is hosting an evening reception, program and book signing with award-winning author Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle on Oct. 4.
Merlefest is like grandmama’s handmade quilt.
I recently retired from the recreation and parks profession, with my final 14 years of full time employment being with the City of Greenville. It’s been a wonderful place in which to conclude a rewarding, 50-plus year career, and I’m grateful for the support and encouragement Greenville Recr…
In some North Carolina houses, this is a time of empty rooms and empty spaces. Children, so long ever-present, are now suddenly gone away to college.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Dozens of people supporting a North Carolina man who served more than two decades behind bars for a murder he said he didn't commit gathered Friday outside the Executive Mansion as they urged the governor to formally pardon him.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who claimed he had a bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol last month, prompting evacuations and an hourslong standoff with police, is competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The chairman of the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission has resigned from the board, citing anxiety over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the agency’s recent challenges with liquor distribution.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Union County's school board voted Monday to modify the district's quarantine protocols to comply with state law and let the county health department lead contact-tracing efforts.
CONOVER, N.C. (AP) — Jason Lail was healthy before he got COVID-19. He loved to hunt and fish. He played with his children. He had no medical conditions.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina judges struck down the state’s latest photo voter identification law on Friday, agreeing with minority voters that Republicans rammed through rules tainted by racial bias as a way to remain in power.
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.
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany is embarking on a potentially lengthy search for its next government after the center-left Social Democrats narrowly beat outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right bloc in an election that failed to set a clear direction for Europe's biggest economy under a new leader.
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Monday, as fears of further waves of coronavirus outbreaks clouded the economic outlook for the region, tempering gains.
QOM, Iran (AP) — In Iran's holy city of Qom, where Shiite scholars study and pilgrims travel to a shrine believed to be a gate to heaven, the Islamic Republic's coronavirus outbreak began and still rages to this day.
BAGHDAD (AP) — In the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, glossy election campaign posters are plastered alongside jungles of sagging electrical wires lining the alleyway to Abu Ammar’s home.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand's prime minister says the government will start a pilot program of home-isolation for overseas travelers, ahead of what she expects to be increasing vaccination levels.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops conducted a series of arrest raids against suspected Hamas militants across the occupied West Bank early Sunday, sparking a pair of gun battles in which five Palestinians were killed and two Israeli soldiers were seriously wounded.
NEW YORK (AP) — “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” a jukebox adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s hyperactive 2001 movie, won the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on a Sunday night when Broadway looked back to honor shows shuttered by COVID-19, mourn its fallen and also look forward to welcoming …
JOPLIN, Mont. (AP) — Federal investigators are seeking the cause of an Amtrak train derailment near a switch on tracks in the middle of vast farmland in far northern Montana that killed three people and left seven hospitalized over the weekend.
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