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A social worker from Winterville said he wants to help pay for his twin sons’ college degrees after a $20 scratch-off ticket turned into a $100,000 win, the N.C. Education Lottery announced Wednesday.
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s highest court on Wednesday delayed the state’s planned March 8 primary until May while state courts review claims of illegal gerrymandering.
Legislative candidates were allowed to begin filing for the 2022 election on Tuesday, and contested races for two local offices quickly emerged.
Greenville officials want additional community engagement and planning before they greenlight American Rescue Plan funding for community projects at a park and community center.
A mask requirement will continue in Pitt County Schools until Christmas break but is set to be lifted in January.
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A Greenville man was injured during an assault with a firearm at a home north of town on Sunday, the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office reported.
The two most recently elected members of the Board of Education were selected as chairman and vice chairman of the board on Monday.
An order temporarily suspending filing for congressional and legislative offices turned away some candidates who had hoped to begin their campaigns on Monday while some local candidates were able to file.
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Coming off a strong 2020-21 campaign, expectations were high coming into this season for the J.H. Rose football program.
This was the get-right game for the East Carolina women’s basketball team. And the Pirates sure took advantage.
East Carolina can start gameplanning.
East Carolina can start gameplanning.
Play was stopped when the basketball was wedged between the rim and backboard after a missed 3-pointer from Gardner-Webb. Ludgy Debaut to the rescue.
This is traditionally the season of sharing and giving, so think about all the novels and movies that pit the wealthy, affluent, well-to-do overseer against the poor, downtrodden, underling, little person — the haves versus the have-nots.
The United States has a Washington Football Team. Let’s have American athletes at the Olympics. No American flags, no national team, just American athletes with their state flags, or college flags, or no flags. Just American athletes competing at the olympics. We need a show of resolve, and …
It’s a bedrock principle of American law that average people can vindicate their legal and constitutional rights in courts of law and have those courts compel or prevent acts of other branches of government.
After the 2012 massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, then-Rep. Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, evaded calls for banning weapons of war. But he had other ideas. The “more realistic discussion,” Rogers said, is “how do we target people with mental illness who use firearms?”
North Carolina’s state legislators are a pretty busy bunch, but they don’t get paid a whole lot. Very few working people can actually afford to run for office — and as a result, their interests are often left out of the policymaking process.
It’s the kind of spectacle that people will talk about for decades: They saw the mountain on fire.
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EDENTON — After months of planning, the North Carolina General Assembly recently appropriated $6.1 million for the purchase of Hayes Farm.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s highest court on Wednesday pushed back the March election primaries for legislative, congressional and judicial seats to give state courts time to review lawsuits claiming the Republican-controlled legislature illegally gerrymandered some districts.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former North Carolina U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers announced Wednesday that she will seek a congressional comeback.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department said Monday it is ending its investigation into the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman in Mississippi.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The start of North Carolina candidate filing for U.S. House and legislative seats was blocked on Monday by an appeals court panel — only to be restored hours later when most Court of Appeals judges agreed they wanted to decide whether a longer filing delay was warranted.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina government officials have scheduled a Monday afternoon news conference to announce a major economic development project that likely will be construction of a Toyota electric vehicle battery factory that will employ 1,750 people.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Bob Dole, who overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of his dwindling generation of World War II veterans, has died. He was 98.
HICKORY, N.C. (AP) — If Dick Hewitt isn’t at the end seat at the bar of his cafe, his regulars notice.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country musician Stonewall Jackson, who sang on the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years and had No. 1 hits with “Waterloo” and others, died Saturday after a long battle with vascular dementia. He was 89.
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Vaccine makers are racing to update their COVID-19 shots against the newest coronavirus threat even before it’s clear a change is needed, just in case.
COCONUT ISLAND, Hawaii (AP) — On a moonless summer night in Hawaii, krill, fish and crabs swirl through a beam of light as two researchers peer into the water above a vibrant reef.
KAMAR KALAGH, Afghanistan (AP) — Hajji Wali Jan brought a half-dozen plastic containers to the well in Kamar Kalagh on a recent Friday — one of the handful of days each week he and those who live on his side of this Afghan village ae allowed to use the water source.
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday as investors waited for U.S. inflation data that might influence the Federal Reserve's decision on when to roll back economic stimulus.
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher Thursday as investors waited for U.S. inflation data that might influence the Federal Reserve's decision on when to roll back economic stimulus.
IOC President Thomas Bach can't escape repeated questions about Peng Shuai and issues raised by two video calls the IOC has had with her.
At former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial for fatally shooting Daunte Wright, a Black motorist, the core of her defense is clear: She says she meant to use her Taser but grabbed her handgun instead.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A father and son were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of starting a massive California wildfire that destroyed many homes and forced tens of thousands of people to flee Lake Tahoe communities earlier this year, authorities said.
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