Legislative candidates were allowed to begin filing for the 2022 election on Tuesday, and contested races for two local offices quickly emerged.
Greenville officials want additional community engagement and planning before they greenlight American Rescue Plan funding for community projects at a park and community center.
A mask requirement will continue in Pitt County Schools until Christmas break but is set to be lifted in January.
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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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Coming off a strong 2020-21 campaign, expectations were high coming into this season for the J.H. Rose football program.
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.
It’s the kind of spectacle that people will talk about for decades: They saw the mountain on fire.
BYH, do the right thing and buy all your Christmas gifts from local artisans this year.
There is some sparse historical evidence suggesting that a Jewish guy, name o’ Jesus of Nazareth, actually did walk around on our beloved Earth way back in the day. There is also some significant evidence that this guy’s Jewish PR man, name o’ Paul, wrote a bunch of letters (“Epistles”) stat…
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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.
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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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Stocks turned choppy on Wall Street Wednesday following a two-day rally.
Ten months after his right leg was badly damaged in a car crash, Tiger Woods is returning to competition next week with 12-year-old son Charlie in the PNC Championship.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Even as the U.S. reaches a milestone of roughly 200 million people fully vaccinated against COVID-19, cases and hospitalizations are spiking again, even in highly inoculated corners of the country like New England.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — With more than two dozen states poised to ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court gives them the OK next year, California clinics and their allies in the state Legislature on Wednesday revealed a plan to make the state a “sanctuary" for those seeking reproductive car…
REFORM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama authorities are investigating after former NFL player Glenn Foster Jr. died in custody following a high-speed chase that resulted in his arrest and then a scuffle involving officers in the county jail where he was being held.
BERLIN (AP) — The German-born father of Chilean presidential frontrunner José Antonio Kast was a member of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, according to a recently unearthed document obtained by The Associated Press, revelations that appear at odds with the far-right candidate's own statements abo…
CAIRO (AP) — Shortly after Kholoud al-Faqeeh was appointed judge in an Islamic religious court in the Palestinian territories, a woman walked in, laid eyes on her and turned around and walked out, murmuring that she didn’t want a woman to rule in her case.
ROME (AP) — Women aspiring to leadership in the Catholic church have long come to terms with the glass ceiling that exists in the male-dominated institution, but Pope Francis’ spate of female appointments in the Vatican hierarchy suggests that change, however modest, is underway.
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