East Carolina University has joined more than 250 campuses nationwide in being designated as a Voter Friendly Campus, the university announced.
RALEIGH — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has signed a Medicaid expansion law that was a decade in the making, although a significant hurdle remains before coverage can be implemented.
A man was shot and another person was injured during a dispute also involving a bat east of Farmville early Friday morning, the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office reported.
At Greenville’s first prom night for special populations since before the pandemic, masks were available at the door. But these were not face coverings; they were part of a festive celebration.
The Greenville Police Department is increasing its oversight of downtown bar bouncers, the chief said in a recent memo to city officials, a change that comes ahead of a possible increase in the number of drinking establishments in the district.
A man was shot and another person was injured during a dispute also involving a bat east of Farmville early Friday morning, the Pitt County Sheriff's Office reported.
The Pitt County Sheriff’s Office is investigating another report of stolen catalytic converters, this time from the Pitt County Government offices on Fifth Street.
Greenville police are asking for the public’s assistance to identify a man suspected in an assault on East Fifth Street.
‘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. March 31-April 1 and 3 p.m. April 2 in the Goess Student Center’s Davenport Multipurpose Room, 169 Bulldog Run, Winterville. The play, featuring student actors, is based on the beloved Charles Schulz comic strip.
The Greenville Jaycees’ annual Party With A Purpose will feature live music and fun downtown on Saturday while collecting prom attire and raising money to help combat human trafficking.
Local Events
Latest e-Edition
Reflector Special Editions
Most Popular Stories
Articles
- Matthew B. Paramore
- Four HCA students injured in bus accident
- Miss Grifton takes the stage on April 1: Event leads up to town's annual Shad Festival
- Jones of ‘SNL' fame funds book vending machine for Camden Intermediate School
- Pitt commissioners deny rezoning request, ask staff to pursue transitional housing options
- Knight returns to sideline at D.H. Conley
- Concerns continue as downtown parking enforcement nears
- Greenville police will fully enforce bouncer ordinance starting May 1
- DWI Roundup: Elm Street collision leads to arrest
- 229694 ALEXIS SANCHEZ-VELASQUEZ
Images
East Carolina has been living for the weekend.
Through five innings of Tuesday night’s Big Carolina 3A/4A Conference softball clash, D.H. Conley had stranded eight runners on base and found itself knotted at two with host South Central.
The Pitt Community College baseball team split a high-scoring doubleheader on Saturday against Bryant & Stratton College (Va.), winning the first game, 14-3, in five innings before dropping the second game 16-8 in eight innings.
featured
Part of William Knight’s decision to return to coaching basketball was that he simply missed being directly involved in the game he loves.
Josh Grosz was operating at peak efficiency on Sunday.
featured
In an emergency, send Wyatt Lunsford-Shenkman to the mound.
In March of 2003, the United States launched an illegal war of aggression against Iraq.
It's been two decades since, on March 19, 2003, United States forces invaded Iraq. President George W. Bush ordered the invasion to neutralize what he said was the threat of weapons of mass destruction posed by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Except it turned out Saddam did not have weapons o…
A few weeks ago, three members of the North Carolina Senate — Amy Scott Galey of Alamance County, Lisa Barnes of Nash County, and Michael Lee of New Hanover County — filed a state Parents’ Bill of Rights to ensure that local schools respect parental authority to direct the education, develop…
Elm Street tennis courts are the busiest city tennis courts in Greenville. The courts have been there since the mid-1960s. On any given day you will see more mature folks, young folks, college students, parents and children enjoying the sport of a lifetime. Numerous studies have named tennis…
Since childhood, we have been told by our doctors to eat healthy. We are assured that if we eat fruits and vegetables, we will limit our risk for disease and achieve longevity.
For more than a decade we’ve studied the problem exhaustively, we’ve talked about it almost incessantly, we’ve engaged the latest curriculum du jour, and have spent more than $50 million, yet we still can’t solve the mystery of our children’s reading proficiency. Our patience is wearing thin…
Four young women will compete for the title of Miss Grifton next week ahead of the annual Grifton Shad Festival.
Don’t worry about kids falling out of this tree. It’s terrible for a tree house, or just for climbing, and for pretty obvious reasons.
My husband, Peter, and I are staying in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, which is, according to a lot of folks, a tourist town. Sometimes the person saying this means it is not a place they would want to spend time.
Q Several years ago, I began sweating on my forehead. It gradually became more profuse, until my entire head was soaking wet. My internist diagnosed hyperhidrosis. An antiperspirant he suggested worked, but only briefly. What is the cause of hyperhidrosis? Is there any treatment?
AYDEN — Pie lovers and math nerds united when bakery Gwendy’s Goodies concluded its first Pi(e) Week Extravaganza with a pie eating contest for the community.
State AP Stories
President Joe Biden says Republicans’ budget plans could undermine U.S. manufacturing and help China dominate the world economy. Being tough on China has been a core part of the identity of former President Donald Trump, who is seeking to return to the White House in 2024. Biden says the GOP push to cut his incentives for clean energy “would mean ceding the future of innovation and technology to China.” He spoke Tuesday at a semiconductor maker in North Carolina. Biden is trying to shape public sentiment as he faces off with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy about whether the federal government should raise its legal borrowing capacity.
North Carolina House Republicans have approved a measure that would require sheriffs to help federal agents interested in picking up jail inmates they believe are in the country illegally. Similar measures have passed the General Assembly in 2019 and 2022. But each of them was vetoed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. Now Republicans hold more seats so it's easier to override a Cooper veto. The bill passed Tuesday now goes to the Senate. The bill stemmed from several sheriffs who declined to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Opponents say sheriffs should be allowed to set their own enforcement priorities and that some people who fear deportation won't report crimes.
An Arkansas bathroom bill that had been criticized as the most extreme in the country has been revamped to address concerns it would criminalize transgender people using public restrooms matching gender identity. The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday endorsed the bathroom bill after it was amended. The bill allows someone to be charged with a misdemeanor for using a public restroom of the opposite sex when a minor is present. It was changed to make it only a crime if the person enters the restroom for sexual purposes. The proposal now heads to the full House. The bill was revised after hours of testimony from members of the transgender community and their families.
North Carolina’s state elections board has removed two county election officials who had refused to certify the 2022 election results after state officials determined they violated their duty to comply with state law. The state board voted unanimously Tuesday to dismiss Surry County elections secretary Jerry Forestieri and board member Timothy DeHaan in one of the strongest disciplinary actions taken against local officials who’ve delayed or refused to certify election results. Forestieri and DeHaan had questioned the legitimacy of state election law and court decisions disallowing photo ID checks and voter residency challenges. DeHaan ultimately signed on to certify the vote, while Forestieri did not.
The Federal Reserve’s bank supervisors warned Silicon Valley Bank’s management as early as the fall of 2021 of risks stemming from its unusual business model, a top Fed official said Tuesday, but its managers failed to take the steps necessary to fix the problems. The Fed official, Michael Barr, the nation’s top banking regulator, said during a Senate Banking Committee hearing that the Fed is considering whether stronger bank rules are needed to prevent a similar failure in the future. Silicon Valley Bank’s management was deficient, Barr said. In particular, he said, the interest rate model the bank used “was not at all aligned with reality.”
The U.S. Energy Information Administration announced that electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal electricity production in the United States for the first time in 2022. The growth of wind and solar significantly drove the increase in renewable energy and experts say these two resources will be the “backbone” of clean energy growth in the U.S. because of their reliability and affordability. Renewables passed nuclear electricity production for the first time in 2012 and continued to outpace it.
RALEIGH — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has signed a Medicaid expansion law that was a decade in the making, although a significant hurdle remains before coverage can be implemented.
North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has signed a Medicaid expansion law that was a decade in the making. Cooper celebrated on Monday the passage of expansion legislation from the Republican-controlled General Assembly with the bill-signing ceremony at the Executive Mansion. Cooper has wanted expansion for years, but Republicans came around to the idea recently. North Carolina has been among 11 states who haven’t accepted expansion. Cooper isn't thrilled with a provision in the bill that requiring the legislature to pass a separate state budget law first for expansion to be implemented. The governor said the law will be the "working families bill of the decade” once implemented.
{{summary}}
National & World AP Stories
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia could lose its chance to host a global youth soccer tournament, and its chance to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, after refusing to welcome a team from Israel.
ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — With her sister behind the wheel, Queen'terica Jones rushed across the flat Mississippi Delta as a powerful tornado bore down on their mother's home. The howling winds lifted the rear of their car off the ground and slammed them into a churchyard.
Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico, starting a fire that killed 38 people. That's according to the Mexican president. And surveillance video shows guards quickly walking way without making any apparent attempt to release the men before the blaze caused one of the deadliest events ever at a Mexican immigration lockup. Officials initally reported 40 dead but Tuesday evening reduced the toll to 38, saying some victims may have been counted twice. The facility is in Ciudad Juarez, which is across from El Paso, Texas, and a major crossing point for migrants. At the time of the blaze, 68 men from Central and South America were being held at the facility.
NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was charged with directing $40 million in bribes to one or more Chinese officials to unfreeze assets relating to his cryptocurrency business in a newly rewritten indictment unsealed Tuesday.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Six people were killed at a small, private Christian school just south of downtown Nashville on Monday after a shooter opened fire inside the building of about 200 students, police said.
A Maryland appellate court has reinstated Adnan Syed’s murder conviction and ordered a new hearing in the case, marking the latest development in the protracted legal odyssey chronicled in the podcast “Serial.” Though Syed’s conviction has been reinstated, he won't immediately be taken back into custody. In a 2-1 decision released Tuesday, the Appellate Court of Maryland ruled a lower court failed to give sufficient notice to the victim’s family when it scheduled the September hearing that vacated Syed’s conviction and allowed him to regain his freedom after more than two decades behind bars. Maryland law provides victims with the right to prior notice of such hearings, and the court ruled that right was violated in the case of Hae Min Lee’s brother.
NANJING, China (AP) — Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou began a 12-day tour of China with a symbolism-laden visit to the mausoleum where a founding figure revered in both China and Taiwan is entombed.
OKHTYRKA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president visited the Sumy region in northern Ukraine on Tuesday, continuing his tour over recent days of areas of the country that have felt the brunt of Russia’s full-scale invasion and as the stage increasingly looks set for a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
{{summary}}
