A company of care providers and support staff are preparing the Greenville Convention Center for a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination effort expected to serve thousands starting on Monday.
More than 300 years have passed since Blackbeard’s flagship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, went down along the North Carolina coast, and it has been nearly a quarter century since divers located the remains of the wreckage near Beaufort Inlet. But even today, this pirate ship continues to yield …
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Wade McIver Bullock of Greenville received his Eagle Scout Award, the highest honor in Boy Scouting, on Jan. 12.
WASHINGTON — Here’s how area members of Congress voted on major issues during the legislative week ending Jan. 22.
WINTERVILLE — The U.S. Department of Education announced this month that Pitt Community College has been selected as a finalist in its Rethink Adult Ed Challenge, a national competition to advance pre-apprenticeships for adult learners.
Through a longstanding partnership between East Carolina University and Sylvan Heights Bird Park in Scotland Neck, researchers have sequenced the genome of the white-winged wood duck, which could help in the conservation effort for the rare avian species.
The Greenville City Council is set to restore $6.5 million to its current budget in February thanks to better than expected tax revenues.
I have to chuckle went I see certain folks wearing masks below their noses. I see it in church, stores, restaurants, and the workplace. Do they really think it's effective if worn below the nose? Smh
The Greenville Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved a high-density zoning request for land off Dickinson Avenue that stirred opposition among nearby property owners.
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There are examples early in Joe Dooley’s career of him missing a few basketball games as an assistant coach to travel and focus on recruiting.
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East Carolina’s baseball season will begin with attendance at Clark-LeClair Stadium limited to two family members per each competing student-athlete and coach.
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No matter what happens on Saturday, the D.H. Conley volleyball team and its veteran coach will never forget this season.
RALEIGH – It took 50 years and one ounce to break the current state record for a channel catfish, but John Stone, of Pinehurst, now holds the new record after catching a 23-pound, 5-ounce catfish from a private pond in Moore County last September.
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East Carolina athletics director Jon Gilbert will not be the next AD at Tennessee, which hired UCF’s Danny White.
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After already caring for East Carolina athletes for more than 35 years, Orthopaedics East & Sports Medicine Center made a joint announcement with ECU athletics Thursday to become official team physicians for the Pirates.
BYH to residents and nonresidents driving through Brook Valley. This is an active neighborhood with no sidewalks and lots of children, walkers and bike riders. When passing these folks please move way over. If there is a car coming in the other direction please wait instead of trying to sque…
President Donald Trump is finally gone — finished and washed up in politics in a single term.
President Trump is now former President Trump. With Joe Biden now President Biden, Democrats control the White House, the House and the Senate. An ambitious agenda lies ahead for the new Democratic administration. And yet there are signs that some Democrats’ obsession with Donald Trump — the…
Spokesmen from Dominion Energy and Smithfield food have touted the program being developed to collect methane gas from swine farm lagoons as an “eco-friendly” alternative to the current practice of releasing methane directly into the atmosphere.
As Joe Biden takes office as the nation’s 46th president, one number should be deeply disturbing to anyone who cares about the health of democracy. That number is 32: the percentage of Americans who told an ABC/Washington Post poll that Biden “did not legitimately win” the November election.…
The late year 2020 was a face-off year. 2021 begins likewise. We turned off our faces, tucking them away behind paper and fabric. We have steadily grown grim about the mouth and hide our scowls behind masks. It is, as Herman Melville put it, time to quietly take to the ship. Come, sail away …
Wade McIver Bullock of Greenville received his Eagle Scout Award, the highest honor in Boy Scouting, on Jan. 12.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s governor has signed a revenue-sharing agreement with the Catawba Indian Nation that clears the way for Las Vegas-style gaming to be offered at a planned resort in Kings Mountain, officials said.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia is lagging behind when it comes to tracking COVID-19 vaccinations by race and ethnicity compared to other states, according to public health data.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A North Carolina-bound flight had to return to the gate in Florida after it was struck by a bird during takeoff on Sunday.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — While the world hunkered down at home in April from the COVID-19 pandemic, Chapel Hill Poet Laureate CJ Suitt relished the time to create.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Four players and the president of Brazilian soccer club Palmas died in a plane crash on Sunday in the northern state of Tocantins, the team said.
PARIS (AP) — After increasingly strained U.S.-France relations under Donald Trump, President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed Sunday to work closely together to fight the coronavirus pandemic and climate change.
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s president appeared poised to win a second term in office Sunday, in an election held amid a devastating COVID-19 surge that has made the European country the worst in the world for cases and deaths.
As a student in college and seminary, then as a pastor in Texas, Dwight McKissic has been affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention for more than 45 years. Now he’s pondering whether he and his congregation should break away.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Teachers Union said Sunday that its members voted to defy an order to return to the classroom over concerns about COVID-19, setting up a showdown with district officials who have said that refusing to return when ordered would amount to an illegal strike.
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — At least two people were injured when a police officer responding to a report of a street race plowed his car through a crowd of pedestrians that had gathered around him and were pounding on the car's windows in downtown Tacoma on Saturday night, officials said.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel will be closing its international airport to nearly all flights, while Israeli police clashed with ultra-Orthodox protesters in several major cities and the government raced to bring a raging coronavirus outbreak under …
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