There was a time when school board meetings had a reputation for being mundane, sometimes tedious sessions that attracted fairly little attention and seldom drew a crowd. Members might congratulate a championship team, hear updates on the school nutrition program or approve spending on build…
While Compute North has paused its plans to operate in Greenville, work continues for individuals who opposed the company.
Incumbent Greg Murphy needs to focus more on fentanyl and other issues in Congressional District 3 instead of on the U.S. border, according to his challenger, who just days prior to winning the Democratic Party nomination lost her brother to an overdose.
A Greenville woman was charged with driving while impaired after she ran up onto a curb, according to a report from the Greenville Police Department.
The Greenville City Council will vote on two items involving the city’s red-light camera program and the money received from the school system and paid to the camera operator.
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has experienced recent success in recruiting a diverse group of patients to participate in clinical trials for new medications and treatments.
WINTERVILLE — The Pitt Community College VISIONS Career Development and Scholarship Program celebrated the upcoming graduations of its high school participants this month.
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Greenville Utilities Board of Commissioners on Thursday unanimously voted to declare its former Mumford Road Operations Center surplus property, the first step towards selling the land.
In the early weeks of 2020, just before the coronavirus pandemic began dominating the headlines, a literacy organization that had served the community for more than 30 years closed a chapter with hardly a word.
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From Justin Wilcoxen’s walkoff home run that wasn’t in the second game of the season to Saturday’s walkoff, 3-2, win over Houston in 10 innings, the East Carolina baseball team has rewritten its season.
Every sport has venues that transcend that sport, from Wrigley Field to Madison Square Garden, or Indianapolis Motor Speedway to the Los Angeles Coliseum.
With a pair of crosstown conference foes playing in front of a packed house at historic Guy Smith Stadium with a spot in the 3A East Regional on the line, a dramatic game could be expected.
Inside Ben Terwilliger lies a dormant beast that is let loose when the East Carolina baseball team is thinking about closing up shop for the night.
North Pitt Middle School (featuring players from Wellcome, Pactolus, Bethel and Stokes) triumphed over Chicod School in the Pitt County soccer championship match played on May 12.
Zach Agnos started the kindling and the rest of the East Carolina lineup fanned the flames into a roaring fire.
5/16/2025 — I am so excited! Lord Zucker has issued the latest Meta app for my Genius Phone! It immerses me in a holographic community named “Siloville.” Soon I’ll be assigned to the virtual group that Meta decides is most suitable for me.
A NBYH to those fast food places that can’t cook food until it’s done or fix food without hair in it. Would you want to eat hairy food? Think about it. If you don’t like hair in food, other people don’t like it either!
President Biden likes to blame inflation on the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine — or, as he says, “Putin’s price hike.” But the fact is, Biden’s own actions, and those of his party, have also contributed significantly to the rise in the cost of living that is making it harder and harde…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is clearly out of his mind. Only a deranged and isolated leader stuck a 20th century time warp would launch an unprovoked and barbaric attack against a people he says are the same as his own — and say he is saving them from Nazis. The insanity of it all has f…
Republican politicians, including some of the party’s top leaders, openly espouse versions of a white supremacist conspiracy theory holding that an orchestrated effort is underway to displace white Americans. A recently published poll found that almost half of Republicans believe that immigr…
As a flood of foreigners poured into the United States, a critic called them “generally the most stupid sort of their own nation,” and warned darkly, “They will soon outnumber us, (and we) will not, in my opinion, be able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious.”
Three men walk into a bar: a locksmith, a retired prison administrator and a city employee. It’s no joke. If Michael Wiggs, Joe Solano and Ron Harris walk into a bar, it’s pretty certain they’ll soon be playing instruments and the punchline will be “Freebird!”
The Bear Grass High School Class of 1952 held its 70th reunion on April 6, 2022 at The Hitching Post Restaurant in Williamston.
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Tab Benoit, respected Louisiana-based blues guitarist-vocalist and storyteller extraordinaire, will perform in Greenville on Wednesday as part of an ambitious spring-summer national tour.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several state legislators won't be returning to the North Carolina General Assembly next January after primary losses, while former lawmakers had mixed results in trying to get back to the House or Senate.
Printing mistakes will force local election officials in Pennsylvania and Oregon to redo thousands of mailed ballots, a laborious process that could delay results for some closely contested races in Tuesday's primaries.
RALElGH, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ted Budd and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley won their respective Senate primaries on Tuesday, setting up a fall election matchup that should again test former President Donald Trump's influence in North Carolina.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump’s choice for Pennsylvania governor won his primary Tuesday night and his Senate pick was locked in an exceedingly close contest as the former president worked to expand his hold on the Republican Party.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — First-term U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost his Republican primary race Tuesday to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, after the pro-Donald Trump firebrand's personal and political blunders translated into voter unhappiness.
Former President Donald Trump’s winning streak in U.S. Senate primaries is on the line today as voters in North Carolina and four other states cast their ballots in midterm elections.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's winning streak in U.S. Senate primaries is on the line Tuesday as voters in five states cast their ballots in midterm elections.
WILSON, N.C. (AP) — Wilson County’s only commercial hemp grower says if medical marijuana becomes legal in North Carolina, he will be a good candidate to grow it with the knowledge he has gained.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — One is a restaurateur who fled Belarus when he learned he was about to be arrested for criticizing President Alexander Lukashenko. Another was given the choice of either denouncing fellow opposition activists or being jailed. And one is certain his brother was killed by…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s sprawling financial trial may not have produced any convictions yet or any new smoking guns as prosecutors work through a first round of questioning of the 10 suspects accused of fleecing the Holy See of tens of millions of euros.
POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — With Russia claiming to have taken prisoner nearly 2,500 Ukrainian fighters from the besieged Mariupol steel plant, concerns grew about their fate as a Moscow-backed separatist leader vowed they would face tribunals.
POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Concern mounted Saturday over Ukrainian fighters who became prisoners at the end of Russia's brutal three-month siege of Mariupol, as a Moscow-backed separatist leader vowed they would face tribunals.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Maybe extra rest isn't such a bad thing for a racehorse after all.
Roofs and walls on a busy business stretch were turned to tangled rubble. Mobile homes were destroyed. Tornadoes are so uncommon in northern Michigan that Gaylord doesn't have a siren system to warn people about hazardous weather.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is a politician molded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Roberta Drury, a 32-year-old woman who was the youngest of the 10 Black people killed at a Buffalo supermarket, was remembered at her funeral Saturday for "that smile that could light up a room,” as the city marked one week since the shooting with sorrowful moments of silence.
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