A 72-year-old Grimesland man has been arrested for crimes related to a minor, the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office reported.
Schools to direct COVID-19 savings to capital needs: New Eppes project could take a year to complete
Due to COVID-19’s impact on operations, the county’s public school district is projecting $2.5 million in savings, money which will be used to fund capital needs, officials said.
Sunny skies and pleasant conditions are expected to set the stage for tonight's Concert on the Common featuring Night Years, an oldies, classic hits and Top 40 band from Raleigh.
It was standing room only at Hollywood Crossroads Wednesday night, except for those who arrived early or brought folding chairs to watch a longstanding baseball rivalry take on an extra dose of significance.
The East Carolina University Board of Trustees on Wednesday took action to integrate the Brody School of Medicine with Vidant Health and create a new health system brand.
The role C.M. Eppes High School played in Greenville was remembered Wednesday when city leaders and community members gathered to break ground on the new city swimming pool and Eppes Recreation Center renovation project.
Email announcements to community@reflector.com.
featured
The state Senate budget includes funding for a new ECU medical school and several other Pitt County programs, but Rep. Kandie Smith said what is left out is disappointing.
A Greenville man has been arrested on charges of rape, assault and other crimes related to a teenage girl.
The Winterville Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating suspects who stole a trailer and four-wheelers early Monday.
Nobody has better insight than longtime D.H. Conley coach Jason Mills on what kind of J.H. Rose team Cox Mill will face in the 3A high school baseball state championship.
featured
Multiple reports surfaced Thursday evening that LSU is hiring Arizona's Jay Johnson as the Tigers' next coach.
** 3A state championship schedule -- J.H. Rose vs. Cox Mill, J.P. Riddle Stadium in Fayetteville
Ginger Evans, a senior tennis player at J.H. Rose, qualified for the state 3A tournament by winning her first two singles matches in last week’s East Regional event at N.C. Wesleyan.
featured
J.H. Rose and D.H. Conley played their third rivalry matchup of the season in front of 1,284 fans Wednesday and Rose won 5-0 to advance to the Class 3A baseball state championship.
RE/MAX broke a 4-4 tie with three big runs in the top of the sixth inning to capture the opening game of the Greenville Little Leagues City Championship series, 7-5 over Host Lions Club on Wednesday night in Stallings Stadium at Elm Street Park.
BYH ECU Parking and Transportation. Denying people the ability to back into parking spaces will increase accidents. Now people parking beside larger vehicles will have to pray people speeding through the parking lot let them back out without running into them.
Tribalism is a powerful force. Fear of the other is embedded in our DNA, a primal instinct that overwhelms reason and vanquishes logic. That’s why democracies around the world are increasingly troubled by the rising power of politicians who pander to racists.
There’s no reason why the U.S.-Canada border shouldn’t already be open, yet the two countries have mutually decided to extend border restrictions until at least July 21. One has to wonder if it has something to do with the lack of readiness for digital sanitary passports meant to collect you…
“Drowning machines.”
Why is so much of white America reluctant to accept the concept of critical race theory? Shouldn’t education be more about truth than it is about pride and suppression? Is it right for our children to be sheltered from and lied to about mass genocide, enslavement, cruelty and continued attem…
Congrats to the folks who organized the Juneteenth events. With vendors selling “Karen” T-shirts, you let everyone know how you really feel. #Wordsmatter #Poorjudgement.
Whenever the Southern Baptist Convention gathers in times of trials and turmoil, one thing is certain — someone will preach a sermon that makes a difference.
People are still getting sick and dying from COVID-19, which is a good reason to continue to eat fruits and vegetables and take a nice walk every day to support a strong immune system. I am still wearing my mask in indoor public spaces; I hope you will too.
For over a year the pandemic has kept us from gathering and sitting down together for a big family-style meal. The simple act of sitting at a table and sharing food took away a valued part of mealtime. Now, with restrictions ease, we can get back to our shared food roots. What better way to …
Launch into the days of summer with a refreshing drink to hydrate, refresh and cool off.
Four billion years ago, Connecticut lay deep in the molten mantle of Earth, its fragments seething as a thousand future boulders.
Why would John Shelton Reed write another book about barbecue?
Most Popular Stories
Articles
- Duplin County woman scores $200,000 lottery prize
- Bill to ban ‘Carolina Squat’ before N.C. Senate
- Driver in wreck that killed teens in Pitt County driving 75 mph, report said
- 215705 WILLIAM CRISP
- Greenville police: Man stabbed in groin
- ‘Step'-dad: For more than 25 years, educator-coach has helped kids find their footing
- Conley survives Asheboro, advances to 3rd round of 3A playoffs
- ECU moves to integrate Brody with Vidant; Waldrum appointed dean
- ECU-led team receives $1.2M grant from UNC System initiative
- Critical race theory not part of Pitt County Schools' curriculum, district says: Board learns of policies in place to address impartial study
Images
State AP Stories
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a ruling dismissing a defamation lawsuit filed by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax after CBS News broadcast interviews with two women who accused him of sexual assault.
EDEN, N.C. (AP) — One of four survivors of a deadly tubing accident said by the time her family saw the dam on the Dan River, it was too late. Irene Villano, 18, told news outlets they had not seen any signs warning of the 8-foot (2-meter) high Duke Energy dam when they heard water rushing.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — It was 7:54 a.m. when I awoke to the news that a tornado had struck North Carolina’s coast overnight, killing three people and injuring 10 others.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Senate Republicans unveiled a two-year state budget proposal Monday that sticks to earlier spending limits even with recent news of a massive revenue windfall. They instead earmark billions more now for savings, with plans for deeper tax cuts and more cons…
GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A key figure in a North Carolina investigation into ballot fraud in a 2018 congressional race pleaded guilty on Monday to federal charges he unlawfully accepted Social Security benefits when concealing other money he earned.
CAMP HILL, Ala. (AP) — Girls have often lived a life of abuse, abandonment or neglect by the time they land at a Christian youth home in rural Alabama, but an annual trip to the beach with the director and her family offered them a bright spot in otherwise tough times.
ATLANTA (AP) — Eight children in a van from a youth home for abused or neglected children were killed in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on a wet interstate that also killed a man and his baby in another vehicle, the most devastating blow from a tropical depression that claimed 13 lives in Alaba…
EDEN, N.C. (AP) — The body of a fourth tuber has been found in a North Carolina river following a deadly accident in which a family on a recreational float went over a dam, local officials said Sunday.
{{summary}}
National & World AP Stories
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — A beachfront condo building partially collapsed Thursday outside Miami, killing at least one person and trapping others in the tower that resembled a giant fractured dollhouse, with one side sheared away. Dozens of survivors were pulled out, and rescuers kept up a despe…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's governor signed an order Thursday allowing the state's college athletes — including players on the nationally renowned Kentucky and Louisville men's basketball teams — to make money through the use of their name, image or likeness.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Leaders of Indigenous groups in Canada said Thursday investigators have found more than 600 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children — a discovery that follows last month's report of 215 bodies found at another school.
An FBI agent applied for a federal warrant in 2018 to seize a fabled cache of U.S. government gold he said was “stolen during the Civil War” and hidden in a Pennsylvania cave, saying the state might take the gold for itself if the feds asked for permission, according to court documents unsea…
WASHINGTON — The White House says it will provide Afghanistan with 3 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine to help with a coronavirus outbreak fueled by the delta variant.
Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Thursday as traders were encouraged to see a bipartisan deal on infrastructure spending as well as some positive reports on the economy.
NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court suspended Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in New York on Thursday because he made false statements while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential race.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — She screamed and cried, banged on the dashboard, begging her husband to drive faster, faster, faster toward her brother lying face-down on his bedroom floor.
{{summary}}
