The city’s plan to sell property it owns to developers of an apartment complex and parking garage got a thumbs up this week from the director of a museum that will be relocated and local arts and historic preservation leaders.
A man found shot in the leg early Sunday near the site of another shooting is recovering, according to Pitt County law enforcement.
Classic Car show: The Coastal Plains Chapter of the Antique Automobile Club of America and the Greenville Recreation and Parks Department are hosting a classic car cruise-in for cars 25 years old and older from 3-6 p.m. on Monday at the Greenville Town Common, 105 E. First St. No tents or large umbrellas. Call Bob McAdam at 252-717-6836 for information.
Two teens have been arrested in connection with a Thursday morning shooting that happened at a residence on Teel’s Estates Road in Pitt County.
The Monitors moved the crowd at Sunday in the Park this week with their jazz and rhythm and blues. The next show is July 10 is with Hank Pattie & The Current, the soulful sound of newgrass and bluegrass.
Following a school year in which parents challenged some of the books their children were assigned to read, Pitt County Schools is considering changes to how class materials are selected and how parents’ objections are handled.
The Greenville City Council voted 4-1on Monday to approve a new parking plan for the downtown area and raised towing fees with a second vote.
A $414,975 grant from the N.C. Division of Soil and Water Conservation will help Pitt County remove debris Conetoe Creek to help prevent flooding in the Belvoir area.
The state attorney general’s office is investigating the use of a tracking tool by several large hospital networks that collects private health information and sends it to Facebook.
More than 20 organizations and a large, festive crowd filled the Town Common on Saturday in a celebration of love and support for Greenville’s LGBTQ+ community.
Local Events
Brook Valley will play host to the annual Pirate Cup Golf Tournament on Sept. 3 with former East Carolina golf team member and current PGA professional Harold Varner III serving as host for the event.
The Winterville 10-year-olds All-Star team defeated East Raleigh 10-4 to claim the Babe Ruth Eastern North Carolina tournament title at Winterville Recreation Park Tuesday night.
A group of East Carolina Athletics donors launched a new NIL collective for ECU athletes, according to an announcement on Tuesday.
East Carolina baseball coach Cliff Godwin will be in his usual spot down the third-base line this summer for the Collegiate National Team.
End-of-season awards continue to pour in for East Carolina’s Zach Agnos.
End-of-season awards continue to pour in for East Carolina’s Zach Agnos.
BYH Forbes Woods Condominiums. You are not alone. Those of us at Breezewood I Condominiums have the same problems. I have one question. Who has control of your HOA board?
“Objectivity” (The quality or state of being just and unbiased, equitableness; the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions) as opposed to “subjectivity/sentimentality” is a concept critical in every aspect of human endeavor.
For President Donald Trump and his allies, Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, were easy targets. They are Black women. That made it oh-so-simple for Trumpists to paint the mother and daughter, who served as Fulton County, Georgia, poll workers, as lawless and fraudulent schemers.
With America facing deepening ideological divisions and an erosion of confidence in their institutions, last thing that anyone needs right now is the revival by one of those institutions of the highly controversial and divisive abortion debate that was settled half a century ago.
Fifteen Republicans in the Senate and 14 in the House joined with congressional Democrats last week to break more than 25 years of inaction on gun safety. That these Republicans, many of whom had ratings of A or A-plus from the National Rifle Association, defied the gun lobby with their supp…
For President Donald Trump and his allies, Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, were easy targets. They are Black women. That made it oh-so-simple for Trumpists to paint the mother and daughter, who served as Fulton County, Ga., poll workers, as lawless and fraudulent schemers.
Nothing says summer quite like ribs hot off the grill. Experts say the key to good barbecue is the sauce. I argue a spice rub is equally important.
Support a healthy immune system to reduce your risk of COVID-19 and other viral infections. Eat healthy food and drink healthy beverages. Be physically active. Supplement only if you can’t get enough of the important nutrients from your food. Wash your hands often. Get vaccinated against COV…
How does a musician go from putting his guitar under the bed and declaring, “I’m done” to being named the No. 1 entertainer in downtown Greenville?
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State AP Stories
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislative leaders on Tuesday unveiled state budget adjustments for the coming year, proposing to spend or set aside billions in expected extra tax collections to raise worker pay, recruit companies, build more infrastructure and combat inflation.
CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. (AP) — The boat of a North Carolina man missing for seven months has washed ashore in the Azores Islands, officials announced Monday.
PHOENIX (AP) — The skies over a scattering of Western U.S. cities will stay dark for the third consecutive Fourth of July as some major fireworks displays are canceled again this year — some over wildfire concerns amid dry weather and others because of enduring pandemic-related staffing and …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Sekou Cooke’s curated exhibit in uptown Charlotte on hip-hop architecture has a lot to offer.
Churches across the U.S. are tackling the big question of how to address homelessness in their communities with a small solution: tiny homes.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — After debuting last summer, the dinosaurs at Sweet Valley Ranch are ready to wake from their slumbers.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ended the nation's constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Friday’s decision by the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade with a 5-3 decision, eliminating the U.S. constitutional right to an abortion prompted the following reaction from state and local elected officials and candidates:
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National & World AP Stories
PARIS (AP) — Over the course of an extraordinary nine-month trial, the lone survivor of the Islamic State extremist team that attacked Paris in 2015 has proclaimed his radicalism, wept, apologized to victims and pleaded with judges to forgive his “mistakes.”
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares skidded in Asia on Wednesday after another broad decline on Wall Street as markets remain gripped by uncertainty over inflation, rising interest rates and the potential for a recession.
MORTARA, Italy (AP) — The worst drought Italy has faced in 70 years is thirsting paddy fields in the river Po valley and jeopardizing the harvest of the premium rice used for risotto.
MADRID (AP) — NATO leaders were sitting down Wednesday to try to turn an urgent sense of purpose triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into action — and to patch up any cracks in their unity over money and mission.
KREMENCHUK, Ukraine (AP) — The mall was nothing extraordinary, but in the middle of a war it was an escape for those in this Ukrainian city who had decided not to flee. Then it exploded in a Russian airstrike.
CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. (AP) — New York's recreational marijuana market is beginning to sprout, literally, with thin-leafed plants stretching toward the sun in farms around the state.
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares skidded in Asia on Wednesday after another broad decline on Wall Street as markets remain gripped by uncertainty over inflation, rising interest rates and the potential for a recession.
DENVER (AP) — Colorado Republicans on Tuesday chose a former local official who pledged to keep politics out of running elections as their nominee for secretary of state over an indicted county clerk who gained national prominence by promoting conspiracy theories about voting machines.
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