An accomplished educator whose career took her places few others have gone, Velma Speight has given back generously to the institutions that helped build her success.
There was pushing, shoving and grabbing in Greenville on Black Friday. But nearly all of it was happening on the football field rather than at the shopping centers.
A documentary that will premiere Nov. 30 takes viewers on a grassroots organization’s 40-year campaign to protect the waters and the people of central and eastern North Carolina.
Nearly 30,000 children are registered with the Toys for Tots campaign in Pitt County, but fewer than a 1,000 toys had been donated before Thanksgiving.
November was first proclaimed National Diabetes Awareness Month in 1975. It is now a month-long recognition, with World Diabetes Day falling on Nov. 14.
The Greenville Board of Adjustment delayed action with a 4-3 vote on requirements for equipment structures and an antenna to be operated by Metronet off of Arlington Boulevard.
FARMVILLE — A Farmville couple with a history of giving back to the community has made a multi-million dollar donation to a private girls school in Raleigh.
A Greenville man is set to stand trial Monday for the 2018 shooting death of a woman.
WINTERVILLE — A program created this year to spur North Carolina’s economic recovery from COVID-19 has been expanded to give the state’s 2020 high school graduates a chance to attend Pitt Community College tuition-free.
The Faculty Author Book Awards offered the opportunity for East Carolina University faculty to be celebrated for published works outside their traditional campus roles.
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While J.H. Rose’s football team never really lost control of the game, Scotland lost control of themselves.
East Carolina players and coaches spoke about learning experiences following the Pirates’ 35-13 loss to Cincinnati on Friday at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.
East Carolina wanted to play spoiler and send the College Football Playoff into chaos.
Desmond Ridder splintered the East Carolina defense a handful of times in the first half on Friday, and those plays largely led to the Pirates’ demise.
The uneasiness of an 0-3 start seems like a long time ago for the J.H. Rose football team.
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Our country has witnessed horrific cases of bodily harm against minorities by police officers. One determinant to these cases could be that police officers lack self-awareness and are not culturally competent.
Would it not be wonderful to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on television and actually see the parade?
The $1 trillion infrastructure bill President Joe Biden signed into law on November 15 attracted the votes of both Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Washington and has attracted praise from many North Carolina leaders, as well — once more illustrating the fact that bad ideas can also be…
You’d think at some point the folks who lead the North Carolina Republican Party might experience just the tiniest twinge of sheepishness.
“This is not who we are.”
While you’re giving thanks this week, take a moment to express your gratitude to the generous folks who are helping to receive and resettle Afghan refugees. They represent the very best of the American spirit: good-hearted and open-minded, a spirit that might flicker and fade in Washington, …
Over 150 years and more, the people and families of Farmville have helped the community survive and thrive, according to a historian helping the town mark its sesquicentennial.
A beloved Ayden man has been recognized for 50 years of membership with the American Legion Post 289.
Drummer Bob Aiken has long been a fixture in the local music community and has a string of friends, fans and bandmates as a result. His story, from tapping with pencils and sticks to the drum throne, has a cadence uniquely his own. And here it is, in his own words:
On a beautiful summer vacation day in 1999, seated at a winery table in rural New York, before tasting any of the local gewurztraminer, we squinted at a couple at a nearby table. Outside, riesling and merlot grapes cascaded along 11 steep and narrow lakes that were plowed out by mile-thick g…
November was first proclaimed National Diabetes Awareness Month in 1975. It is now a month-long recognition, with World Diabetes Day falling on Nov. 14.
My mother sent a photo of a huge female turkey sitting on her bird feeder.
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The Dayton Board of Zoning Appeals has approved the city’s request to demolish a 129-year-old historic building that once was the site of the Wright brothers’ first bike shop.
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Three people were shot and wounded Friday during an apparent fight between two groups at a North Carolina mall crowded with shoppers on the day after Thanksgiving, the police chief said.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — New state data shows more than 1.3 million of the roughly 8.2 million North Carolina adults who qualify for a COVID-19 booster shot — or one in six eligible residents — have gotten the extra protection against a virus that has killed about 775,000 Americans.
The city manager in Newport, Rhode Island, is standing by the city police department's review of the 1966 death of an employee of wealthy heiress Doris Duke that found that there is no new information that would change the result of the original investigation that determined it was an accident.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, helped a local food kitchen prepare Thanksgiving meals for the needy before leaving town — like millions of other Americans — to resume their family tradition of spending the holiday on tiny Nantucket island in Massachusetts.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state Sen. Ben Clark announced Monday his run for U.S. House in the state's 4th Congressional District. He is looking to secure the Democratic nomination in a GOP-leaning district outside Raleigh that is expected to be one of the most competitive races in …
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic former state Sen. Erica Smith announced Tuesday that she has ended her candidacy for U.S. Senate and will now launch a congressional bid to replace Democratic Rep. G.K. Butterfield.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden opened the holiday season at the White House on Monday by breaking off a sprig from the official Blue Room tree and giving it — and a big smooch — to her toddler grandson.
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany's health minister said Saturday he hopes that the sight of air force planes transferring patients across the country will act as a “wake-up call” to millions who are still holding out on getting vaccinated against COVID-19.
LONDON (AP) — Britain became the latest country Saturday to report cases of the new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus as governments around the world sought to shore up their defenses by slapping restrictions on travel from nations in southern Africa.
CALAIS, France (AP) — The price to cross the English Channel varies according to the network of smugglers, between 3,000 and 7,000 euros ($3,380 and $8,000) though there are rumors of discounts.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Worried scientists in South Africa are scrambling to combat the lightning spread across the country of the new and highly transmissible omicron COVID-19 variant as the world grapples with its emergence.
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The Dayton Board of Zoning Appeals has approved the city’s request to demolish a 129-year-old historic building that once was the site of the Wright brothers’ first bike shop.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The last holiday season was far from the most wonderful time of the year for the U.S. Postal Service: Sick and quarantined workers, a flood of packages from shoppers loath to set foot in stores and a last-minute dump of packages from overwhelmed private shippers.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Luz Rivas remembers seeing the word on her mother’s residency card as a child: “alien.”
CASS LAKE, Minnesota (AP) — Animal neglect used to be such a problem on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota, with basic services like sterilization out of reach for many due to poverty and remoteness, that packs of stray dogs would sometimes bring traffic to a halt on the main highway.
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