The N.C. Department of Transportation on Tuesday is installing all-way stop signs at the intersection of Portertown and Eastern Pines roads southeast of Greenville.
A Chocowinity man was killed when two vehicles hit him on North Memorial Drive near Pitt-Greenville Airport on Friday, the Greenville Police Department reported.
Flags adorning the graves of military service members for Memorial Day measure no more than just a few inches. But for local veterans, having teens and children as young as kindergartners volunteering to place them there is no small gesture.
Greenville veterans and their supporters will mark Memorial Day at the Town Common War Memorial on Monday, the community’s first service since COVID-19 struck in 2020.
Pitt County can be a trashy place.
While weather put a damper on a poetry event, it did not stop the blossoming partnership between Greenville’s Sheppard Memorial Library and Pitt County Master Gardeners.
A Wilson man who drove the wrong way down a street in downtown Greenville was charged with driving while impaired.
Kendall Nunamaker and her family of five faced impossible math this month: How to pay for gas, groceries and the mortgage with inflation driving up prices?
East Carolina University’s Integrated Coastal Programs and the Coastal Studies Institute will host an open house from 1-4 p.m. June 4 at the ECU Outer Banks Campus in Wanchese.
WINTERVILLE — Pitt Community College students preparing for radiation therapy careers are using state-of-the-art virtual technology to practice the delivery of ionizing radiation used in the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
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The East Carolina baseball team is headed to the American Athletic Conference tournament championship game.
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The East Carolina baseball team is playing like a runaway train and all of that energy blew right through BayCare Ballpark.
South Central saw its historic season come to an end Thursday night as it suffered an 8-1 loss at the hands of South Brunswick in Game 2 of the 3A Eastern Regional finals.
D.H. Conley’s Mia Trueblood stepped to the plate with runners at first and second and two outs in a tie game in the bottom of the seventh Wednesday night in Game 1 of the 3A East Regional against Fuquay-Varina.
Bless our heart. It is terrible the way some people come in stores dressed. People talk about young men with their pants sagging, what about the young ladies who come in dressed in such skimpy clothes. That is so disrespectful.
In the days after Russia attacked Ukraine, there was a lot of talk among Republicans that Vladimir Putin would not have invaded had Donald Trump still been president. Trump was so difficult to predict, so impulsive, so impetuous, the thinking went, that Putin would not have risked a massive …
To paraphrase the old saying, you may not be interested in the federal debt, but the federal debt is interested in you. There’s abundant evidence for this proposition across the economy right now as prices continue to soar for food, fuel, housing, and other necessities.
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Warren Buffett famously said, “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” What the Oracle of Omaha meant was that when markets are booming, people who take unwise risks can still do OK. When conditions go south, those who invested or borrowed recklessly often fin…
The Senate passed a $40 billion emergency aid package for Ukraine last week, but with a small group of isolationist Republicans loudly criticizing the spending and the war entering a new and complicated phase, continued bipartisan support is not guaranteed.
In honor of Memorial Day, local musicians share their feelings about patriotic music.
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E.B. Aycock Middle School recently inducted 34 new members into its chapter of National Junior Beta Club.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — On a patch of grass outside the fence that surrounds the community garden at Fred Alexander Park, a cherry tree is dying and Reggie Singleton knows why.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A decade ago, Pat McCrory was king in North Carolina's Republican Party. The former Charlotte mayor became the first GOP governor in two decades when he won in 2012 by 11 percentage points.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein left a Raleigh hospital on Wednesday after being treated earlier this week for what he called a “minor stroke.”
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina government's most powerful Republican elected official threw his weight fully behind Medicaid expansion Wednesday, raising the stakes for an issue lingering in state politics for a decade that could result in hundreds of thousands of low-income adults gett…
The families of four people — including three teens — who died in a February plane crash off the North Carolina coast are suing the companies that owned the plane and employed the pilot, who also died. The suit claims the pilot failed to properly fly the single-engine plane in weather condit…
The state health department wants consumers to check labels on certain Jif peanut butter products before they eat, or serve, peanut butter that might be infected with Salmonella.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein said Tuesday he is recovering from a "minor stroke" that prompted doctors to remove a small blood clot.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee is investigating allegations that Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn had a conflict of interest in a cryptocurrency he promoted and engaged in an improper relationship with a member of his staff, the panel said Monday.
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PARIS (AP) — Riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray at Liverpool supporters forced to endure lengthy waits to get into the Champions League final amid logistical chaos and an attempt by UEFA and French authorities to blame overcrowding at turnstiles on people trying to access the stadiu…
LONDON (AP) — Britain is getting ready for a party featuring mounted troops, solemn prayers — and a pack of dancing mechanical corgis.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Salah Chelab crushed a husk of wheat plucked from his sprawling farmland south of Baghdad and inspected its seeds in the palm of one hand. They were several grams lighter than he hoped.
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Days after a local man burst into an elementary school and killed 19 children and two teachers before officers managed to kill him, the signs of grief, solidarity and local pride are everywhere in Uvalde.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Mourners laid to rest the last of 10 Black people killed in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket with a service on Saturday that became a call to action and an emotional plea to end the hate and violence that has wracked the nation.
CANNES, France (AP) — Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s class warfare comedy “Triangle of Sadness” won the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, giving Ostlund one of cinema’s most prestigious prizes for the second time.
In the hours and days following the fatal shooting of 19 children and their two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, authorities gave shifting and at times contradictory information of what happened and how they responded.
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A stampede Saturday at a church charity event in southern Nigeria left 31 people dead and seven injured, police told The Associated Press, a shocking development at a program that aimed to offer hope to the needy. One witness said the dead included a pregnant woman and …
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