Negotiations between the sheriff’s office and the Pitt County Fair are ongoing after a county commissioner this week said the sheriff was charging the fair too much.
Greenville residents who want to weigh in on changes to the city’s voting districts have several options to review the proposals and make comments.
Law enforcement arrested a man and charged him with driving while impaired after he drove into a tree on King Arthur Road near his home in Greenville’s Camelot neighborhood.
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Three ECU researchers have received a $3.8 million federal grant for a four-year effort to address emotional and behavioral problems in elementary schoolchildren, the university announced this week.
Grandma goes to her banker or investment advisor and asks that $15,000.00 be used from her account to purchase a gift card.
The 2021 Hispanic Heritage Guitar Series returns to East Carolina University’s A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall beginning Monday with a free concert by guest artist Rene Izquierdo.
WINTERVILLE — Students considering Pitt Community College for their higher education needs will soon be able to tour its facilities without ever leaving the comforts of home.
The ECU Community School started its fifth year of operation on Aug. 23 with in-person instruction for all 114 enrolled scholars.
On Tuesday, 101 years to the day of the launch of the first-ever Pitt County fair, the gates will reopen to begin what is considered to be another historic year.
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The Daily Reflector’s full preview content of the East Carolina-Marshall football game ran in the print edition Friday, the same day the Pirates traveled to Huntington, W.Va., for the 6 p.m. Saturday kickoff, and also is available on reflector.com.
SNOW HILL – One streak continued while the other came to an end Friday at Greene Central.
The Pitt Greenville Soccer Association adult league is accepting registrations for its fall season. There is an 11-versus-11, coed league and an over-40 7-versus-7 league.
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On Sept. 14, 2018, a category 1 Hurricane Florence made landfall just south of Wrightsville Beach. In the days that followed, Florence became one of the most devastating hurricanes on the North Carolina record.
We spent much of last week reflecting on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the heart-wrenching loss of 2,977 lives in a horrific terror attack that forever changed our lives. Everyone remembers where they were as two airliners crashed into the twin towers. And we remember how this unspeakable…
Bless your heart to the Ayden Collard Festival this past weekend. My family and I had the best time. It was so enjoyable. The two bands on Friday and Saturday night were great. Everybody was so nice and, yes, I got collard greens. In fact, I ate collard greens with cornbread. The carnival ri…
Be it recorded that on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, would-be president-for-life Donald Trump skipped the solemn memorial services held to honor 2,997 victims of al-Qaida terror attacks in favor of shilling for a pay-per-view boxing match.
When President Biden announced vigorous new rules, designed to vastly increase the number of Americans inoculated against COVID-19, he warned the nation’s vaccine deniers: “We’ve been patient. But our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us.”
Two leading House Republicans, Reps. Steve Scalise and James Comer, are asking the Food and Drug Administration for documents that might relate to GOP suspicions that President Joe Biden has politicized the process of administering vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two area writers will go before a panel of judges later this month to see who will become the 2021 Heart of the Pamlico Poet Laureate. The Pamlico Writers’ Group is hosting the competition at 4 p.m. on Sept. 26 at Pamlico Books, 149 N. Market St., Washington, N.C.
This is the latest installment in an ongoing series about local musicians.
To me, “the farm” has always meant the farm where my mother grew up, one of 11 children. Every book I ever read that was set on a farm, and many other books as well, all took place in my imagination at my mother’s family farm and the surrounding woods.
When Julian Pleasants died Sept. 7, North Carolina lost one of its most important academic and popular historians.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina judges struck down the state’s latest photo voter identification law on Friday, agreeing with minority voters that Republicans rammed through rules tainted by racial bias as a way to remain in power.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A former Army doctor convicted for the infamous 1970 murders of his pregnant wife and two young daughters on a North Carolina base has ended his appeal of a lower court ruling that denied his requested release.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Within his first week back at school after a year and a half, 7-year-old Ben Medlin was exposed to a classmate with COVID-19, and he was sent home, along with 7,000 other students in the district, for 14 days of quarantine.
LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A memorial service will be held Friday for Jim Snyder Jr., an attorney, author and conservative candidate for statewide office in North Carolina.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Rep. Verla Insko, the longest-serving House Democrat currently in the chamber, announced on Wednesday she won't seek reelection next year.
Amazon wants to hire 125,000 delivery and warehouse workers and said Tuesday that it is paying new hires an average of $18 an hour in a tight job market as more people shop online.
Fearing his parents wouldn’t approve of his decision to get a COVID-19 vaccine but needing their signature, Andrew signed up for the appointment in secret, and then sprang it on them at the last minute.
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge ordered Apple to dismantle a lucrative part of the competitive barricade guarding its closely run iPhone app store, but rejected allegations that the company has been running an illegal monopoly that stifles competition and innovation.
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JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Military leaders on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson have declared a public health emergency in response to increasing COVID-19 cases in Alaska.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Martin Diky said he panicked as a huge wildfire started racing down a slope toward his wooden house near Lake Tahoe.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Robert Durst’s long, bizarre and deadly run from the law ended when a Los Angeles County jury convicted him in the murder of his best friend more than 20 years ago.
NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida said late Friday that they are working with the FBI to locate 23-year-old Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in the disappearance of his girlfriend, Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito.
THREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — Crews were watching the weather this weekend as they battled California wildfires that have burned into some groves of gigantic ancient sequoias as they try to protect the world's largest tree.
DENVER (AP) — A judge on Friday sentenced a former student to life in prison without parole for a 2019 shooting inside a suburban Denver high school that killed one teenager and injured eight others, telling the defendant he had shown no remorse and had failed to help a devastated community …
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — A Los Angeles jury convicted Robert Durst on Friday of murdering his best friend 20 years ago, a case that took on new life after the New York real estate heir participated in a documentary that connected him to the slaying that was linked to his wife’s 1982 disappearance.
PARIS (AP) — America’s oldest ally, France, recalled its ambassador to the United States on Friday in an unprecedented show of anger that dwarfed decades of previous rifts.
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