Pitt County Manager Scott Elliott said he and his wife have discussed retirement over the years.
The state of North Carolina has seen a downward trend in suicides since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health officials report, but recent deaths locally show the need for awareness is constant.
Preservationists want the Greenville City Council to approve a rule that will prevent the demolition of neglected houses or other buildings.
Six public hearings involving changes to Pitt County’s development ordinances are scheduled for the Board of Commissioners’ 6 p.m. Monday meeting.
A man who police said fell asleep in a McDonald’s drive-through has been charged with driving while impaired.
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The chickens are angry. Farmers take their eggs and coop them up all day. They’re tired of it, and now they’re on the attack.
WINTERVILLE — The N.C. Community College System has honored Pitt Community College student Callie Kirby for academic success and service to the college and community.
Pitt County Schools on Friday reported 23 new on-campus cases of COVID-19, a slight decline from the last reporting period.
An annual observance to remember law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty took on added significance this year due to the pandemic and ongoing civil unrest.
Pitt Greenville Soccer Association boys and girls travel soccer teams are forming for the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 seasons.
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A list of 20 possible NCAA baseball tournament regional hosts is established and will be trimmed May 30 to the actual 16 hosts.
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Only two weekends remain in the college baseball regular season.
East Carolina’s softball team won the final five games of its regular season and hit three home runs against UCF on Thursday during Day 1 of the American Athletic Conference tournament, but the favored Knights held on for a 4-3 win to end the Pirates’ season in Tulsa, Okla.
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The baseball teams at J.H. Rose and D.H. Conley each defeated the other team once this week, and the winning coach Thursday night hinted at the possibility of a third and even more important matchup later this year.
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The NCAA will introduce a new layer of intrigue this week in college baseball when it announces a pool of 20 finalists in contention for 16 NCAA tournament regional host spots. There is anticipation and underlying staying power in this process.
In his letter of May 9, Luther Davis asserts that the Electoral College protects the “will of the people.” The U.S. Constitution’s bicameral system for legislation was designed to prevent a “tyranny of the majority over the minority.” Instead, it has created a tyranny of the minority over th…
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There’s a word to describe political movements that emphasize ethnic, racial and religious solidarity over citizenship and pluralistic values, but it has unpleasant historical associations. Using it only causes political conversations to end in bitterness and name-calling.
For the average American, disconnect from the federal government remains exorbitant. It should be with lawmakers running up obscene amounts of debt on top of the nonstop partisan bickering. Yet, even now, all is not lost in representative government, thanks mostly due to the work of state le…
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ATLANTA (AP) — The operator of the nation's largest gasoline pipeline — hit on May 7th by a ransomware attack — announced Saturday that it has resumed “normal operations," delivering fuel to its markets, including a large swath of the East Coast.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the nation is “over the hump” on gas shortages following a ransomware cyberattack that forced a shutdown of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline.
Gas shortages at the pumps have spread from the South, all but emptying stations in Washington, D.C., following a ransomware cyberattack that forced a shutdown of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline. Though the pipeline operator paid a ransom, restoring service was taking time.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday immediately ended the state's capacity limits on businesses and nearly all the remaining statewide mask-wearing mandates, returning the state to almost normal operations after 15 months marked by COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Lawyers representing two former North Carolina sheriff’s deputies agreed on Friday to a $9 million settlement with two intellectually disabled half brothers who spent decades behind bars after being wrongfully convicted in the 1983 killing of an 11-year-old girl.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Charles Avery had barely started marching when police arrested him, forced him into a police vehicle and took him to jail for participating in landmark civil rights protests that helped change the nation in 1963. He spent days in custody and then lived decades haunted…
A graphic calling the East Coast fuel supply crunch “Biden’s Gas Crisis.” A tweet speculating that gas stations running dry was an “INSIDE JOB.” A meme depicting the president and vice president cheering about the “Green New Deal” in front of a snaking line at a fuel station.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest fuel pipeline is flowing again after the company that runs it was hit by a gang of hackers. But long lines remain at gas stations throughout the Southeast. That's because drivers are buying more gasoline than they need, draining supplies at filling stat…
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FAGRADALSFJALL VOLCANO, Iceland (AP) — Pandemic or no pandemic, the world will never stand still. That's perhaps no clearer than in Iceland, where a volcano has awoken from a slumber that has lasted 6,000 years, give or take a year or two.
PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Police are reaching out to villagers in northern India to investigate the recovery of bodies buried in shallow sand graves or washing up on the Ganges River banks, prompting speculation on social media that they were the remains of COVID-19 victims.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military said Sunday it destroyed the home of Gaza’s top Hamas leader, the third such attack in as many days, after nearly a week of heavy Israeli airstrikes on the territory. The Palestinian militant group ruling Gaza has fired hundreds of rockets in…
To the outside world, the scenes of rocket fire, bombing raids and angry protests in the Middle East this week may have looked familiar. To the people of Israel and especially the Gaza Strip, they were anything but routine.
The Latest on the continuing violence between Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers amid the latest escalation in the Middle East:
NEW YORK (AP) — News organizations demanded an explanation Saturday for an Israeli airstrike that targeted and destroyed a Gaza City building housing the offices of The Associated Press, broadcaster Al-Jazeera and other media outlets.
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on Saturday destroyed a high-rise building that housed The Associated Press office in the Gaza Strip, despite repeated urgent calls from the news agency to the military to halt the impending attack. AP called the strike “shocking and horrifying.”
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel slammed the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, in a dramatic escalation that included bombing the home of a senior Hamas leader, killing a family of 10 in a refugee camp — most of them children — and pulverizing a high-rise that housed The Associated Press and ot…
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