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Greenville police arrested a man they believe was violating a domestic violence protective order after an incident at a First Street apartment building.
Pitt County State Rep. Kandie Smith is the latest candidate to announce she will seek a new office just ahead of filing for the March 8 primary for the 2022 election.
A 1996 graduate, active ECU alumnus and executive with Bank of America will deliver the keynote address at two in-person commencement ceremonies later this month at Minges Coliseum.
On Nov. 21, longtime safe streets advocate Steven Hardy-Braz of Farmville was struck by a car while riding his bicycle on a road in Belhaven. The distracted driver did not see Steven and drove directly into the back of Steven’s bicycle, seriously injuring him. Steven remains in recovery today.
A jury on Friday convicted a man in shooting that killed a mother of three in west Greenville in 2019.
Pieces of the past picked up by a Pitt County man over 50 years of travel will be for sale to the public Saturday on N.C. 43 near west of Greenville.
A pair of festive charity events today will benefit a campaign that provides Christmas presents for children through the Salvation Army and Pitt County Schools.
While many churches began this week hanging greenery to mark the first Sunday of Advent, Covenant Church started off the season by hauling hay into the sanctuary.
A UNC System veteran engineering educator and administrator has been named provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at East Carolina University.
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East Carolina and football coach Mike Houston on Thursday announced a contract extension which would retain Houston through 2026.
Some of them sped up at the end, some were in cruise control the whole way and some got left in the dust.
East Carolina head football coach Mike Houston agreed on Thursday to tentative terms of a proposed contract that would help secure his position through the 2026 season.
The East Carolina women’s basketball team couldn’t hold a late third-quarter lead against host Virginia Commonwealth, which ran away with a 65-48 victory over the Pirates on Wednesday in Richmond, Va.
The J.H. Rose football team is on the cusp of reaching the 3A state championship game, but one big step remains this week when the Rampants take on Jacksonville in the East Region final.
Two players from the East Carolina football team were named to the All-American Athletic Conference first team, the league announced Wednesday.
When then-Congressman Jim Martin ran for governor in 1984, he sought to combine Reagan-era thinking about free markets with the practical approach to government he’d learned two decades earlier as commission chairman of North Carolina’s most-populous county, Mecklenburg.
On Nov. 21, longtime safe streets advocate Steven Hardy-Braz of Farmville was struck by a car while riding his bicycle on a road in Belhaven. The distracted driver did not see Steven and drove directly into the back of Steven’s bicycle, seriously injuring him. Steven remains in recovery today.
When the package says, “Tear here,” how many times does that actually work? Lately every time I “Tear here” it does not tear at all or either it is uneven. Us old folks have a hard enough time getting into a pack of crackers. Can you get a concealed carry license to carry around a small pair…
The holiday season is the best time of the year for us seniors. It is so satisfying to drive along at the speed limit and have the holiday rush tailgating us. People get livid when you obey the traffic laws. Maybe there should be a law against those who obey the law? At any rate, I will cont…
Am I the only reader that finds Vic Corey’s letter on Nov. 26 as a bit disturbing? I fully understand that this is an opinion page but this is a prime example of political theater making up their own “alternative facts.”
The Supreme Court is deliberating on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
It’s hard to do justice to ancient holy days in throw-pillow slogans.
You go through life, and you become aware of various truths. For instance: For me as a teacher (maybe you?), it seemed that the students, semester after semester, were getting steadily younger.
While gardeners love to garden, they often wonder when they will have time to enjoy their outdoor spaces if they’re always planting pruning and weeding. And what about that aching back?
Our household has come closer than ever to considering investing in an artificial Christmas tree. It pains me to admit that.
Here’s a fraud warning from me to you — scammers have the ability to appear to be your bank calling.
As we move indoors due to the weather, please be mindful to wear masks when gathering in crowds, keep air circulating and wash your hands often. Serve health promoting snacks and meals, please.
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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.
Federal prosecutors said Thursday that a North Carolina woman deserves a prison sentence for bringing her 14-year-old child into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed on Thursday legislation that would bar officials from counting mail-in absentee ballots received after Election Day, even if their envelopes were postmarked on or before that date.
The Marine Corps demolition specialist was worried — about America, and about the civil war he feared would follow the presidential election.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Robin Hudson announced on Wednesday that she won't seek reelection next year, citing mandatory age limits that would significantly curtail her service if she won.
PILOT MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — A wildfire at North Carolina's Pilot Mountain State Park had grown to more than 1,000 acres (400 hectares) by Tuesday afternoon, twice its size of a day earlier, authoritiess said.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Dr. Mandy Cohen, the head of North Carolina's health department and face of regular updates on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the state for two years, is stepping down from her post, Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday.
PILOT MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — Fire crews in North Carolina are working to control a fire in Pilot Mountain State Park that has already burned hundreds of acres.
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MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin said Friday that President Vladimir Putin will seek binding guarantees precluding NATO’s expansion to Ukraine during a planned call with U.S. President Joe Biden, while the Ukrainian defense minister warned that Russia could invade his country next month.
DENVER (AP) — A judge ruled Friday that a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to be treated at the state mental hospital to see if he can be made well enough to face prosecution.
The arrival of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in the U.S. has health officials in some communities reviving contact tracing operations in an attempt to slow and better understand its spread as scientists study how contagious it is and whether it can thwart vaccines.
NEW YORK (AP) — A green, folding massage table used by financier Jeffrey Epstein was brought into a Manhattan courtroom and set up in front of a jury on Friday to bolster allegations he teamed up with British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to sexually exploit underage victims.
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A prosecutor filed involuntary manslaughter charges Friday against the parents of a teen accused of killing four students at a Michigan high school, saying they failed to intervene on the day of the tragedy despite being confronted with a drawing and chilling message — …
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A look at the jurors who will hear testimony in the manslaughter trial of former suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter, who is charged in the April shooting death of 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright. Potter says she meant to use her Taser on Wright and dre…
HOUSTON (AP) — For more than seven years, no one has known what happened to $600,000 in checks and cash that was stolen from a safe at Pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch, which has one of the largest congregations in the country.
A week of volatile swings on Wall Street ended Friday with more losses for stocks, as a mixed batch of U.S. job market data triggered another bout of dizzying trading.
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