An overnight winter storm lured people of all ages outside on Saturday, many in search of a snowy hill and something to slide on.
Greenville Utilities is partnering with a maker of automatic thermostats to conduct a pilot project to help homeowners conserve electric use.
My Favorite Foodie is a regular feature that celebrates the culinary skills of home cooks.
The Pitt County Board of Commissioners will begin planning its 2022-23 fiscal year budget during a remote workshop on Monday.
More than 500 cases of COVID-19 were reported on campus for Pitt County Schools this week, nearly twice the number as the previous record, set last week.
BYH to ECU and Athletics. It is ridiculous to see many walk around Minges sans masks while 10 feet away students and faculty wear masks in the middle of a global pandemic. ECU policy states masks should be worn inside ECU buildings. When did the basketball court become outdoors? It was appal…
A new senior leadership team has been installed for Pitt County Government. The team includes:
Occasionally I am asked to give a talk to student groups on personal finance. This is a very important subject, as few things can impact a person’s health and well-being more than stress related to money.
If your trip to the grocery store often includes reaching for a candy bar in the checkout line, would you make that same purchase if you switched to grocery shopping online?
Pitt Community College is launching a new round of short-term Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) training this month in response to national demand for more truck drivers.
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The GRPD is planning a co-rec league for adult kickball to consist of 10 regular season games and a single-elimination postseason format. Doubleheaders will be played on Sunday afternoons at Boyd Lee Park.
The East Carolina baseball team made additions to its coaching staff ahead of the 2022 season, which begins on Feb. 18 with a three-game, weekend home series against Bryant.
FARMVILLE — The long-anticipated first girls’ basketball matchup of the season between Farmville Central and North Pitt did not disappoint Wednesday night as the host Jaguars came away with a 69-57 victory.
Amiya Joyner is a senior on the Farmville Central High School girls’ basketball team.
East Carolina didn’t have enough firepower to keep up with visiting Temple in a 56-41 American Athletic Conference loss on Wednesday at Minges Coliseum.
The East Carolina men’s basketball team has shown it can bury opponents under a mound of points. But the Pirates seem to leave the shovel, a ladder and a roadmap to the surface within arm’s reach as they are still figuring out how to close out games.
BYH to ECU and Athletics. It is ridiculous to see many walk around Minges sans masks while 10 feet away students and faculty wear masks in the middle of a global pandemic. ECU policy states masks should be worn inside ECU buildings. When did the basketball court become outdoors? It was appal…
We talk a lot about the rapidly accelerating destruction of our environment, climate change and global collapse. Many people are experiencing climate anxiety, grief, despair, and outrage, and it is increasingly more widespread. We have legitimate reasons to feel this way. Harmful mental, spi…
I write in response to Father Bob Hudak’s Jan. 8 letter requesting research into the “collateral damage” that occurs by inviting a data processing site such as Compute North into our community. My expertise is in the history of human trafficking, not in cryptocurrency. But a connection exist…
BYH. The Agnes Fullilove School building is a beautiful historical building that should be saved and preserved.
Bill Clinton used to say that all elections are about the future. It's true. Voters want to know what candidates will do in office — how they will fix problems — and if they can be trusted to handle the unexpected developments the future brings.
I don't know about you, but both as a participant and a spectator, I have always looked to sports as a refuge. A refuge from what? Well, what have you got? Work, politics, public controversy, pretty much everything this column is normally about.
The vicious, ambitious black swallower fish is biting off more than it chews.
Dear Dr. June: Last year I fell in love. We met at a friend’s party and just connected. I was visiting her for a week’s vacation and ended up spending more time with him. When I left we stayed in touch and saw each other every weekend. I felt his love and he felt mine. This went on for eight months and he was talking about moving. I was so happy. Then one weekend he didn’t show up and said he ...
I was kicked off Facebook. You may be asking, what in the world did Calvin do to get kicked off social media? Here’s my story, with its twists and turns, and a lesson or two.
Q My 3-year-old is fearful of trying anything new, including things that other children his age love to do such as swinging on a swing, sliding down a slide and splashing in a pool. I feel like I should begin talking to him about what to do in case of a fire in our house and “stranger danger…
Are your new year’s resolutions already in tatters? Or maybe you are like me and didn’t even try to make them.
Our leather chair bears scars from the first year that our cat came to live with us. He has matured since then and no longer sharpens his claws on the furniture. But still, I sometimes feel the way that chair looks.
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NEW YORK (AP) — André Leon Talley, a towering and highly visible figure of the fashion world who made history as a rare Black editor in an overwhelmingly white industry, has died. He was 73.
At an event commemorating the birthday of slain civil rights leader and minister Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a local pastor challenged members of his audience to do their part to end division.
At an event commemorating the birthday of slain civil rights leader and minister Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a local pastor challenged members of his audience to do their part to end division.
Biltmore United Methodist Church of Asheville, North Carolina, is for sale.
GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — Gaston County pets in need of shelter against harsh wintertime weather can now get some help.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Two witnesses told police that a man shot by an off-duty North Carolina deputy jumped onto the hood of the deputy's truck, videos released Friday show.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina congressman said an effort by voters to block his candidacy by citing a constitutional amendment preventing insurrectionists from serving will fail and is part of a scheme to target “America First patriots” who backed former President Donald Trump.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A judge on Thursday granted a request from the police chief of a North Carolina city to release body camera video recorded in the aftermath of the shooting death of a Black man by an off-duty sheriff's deputy.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The 22-year-old New York City police officer who was shot to death while responding to a call in a Harlem apartment came from an immigrant family and grew up in a community with strained police relations, but joined the force to make a difference in the “chaotic city," he onc…
DANVILLE, Pa. (AP) — The last of the escaped monkeys from the crash of a truck towing a trailer load of 100 of the animals was accounted for by late Saturday, a day after the pickup collided with a dump truck on a Pennsylvania highway, authorities said.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Iglenda Monzón lost her restaurant to Venezuela’s protracted economic crisis. Her daughters then emigrated to Colombia to find work and left behind two children. She and the boys sometimes go hungry and often do not have running water, electricity or gas.
HELSINKI (AP) — The British government on Saturday accused Russia of seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration, and said former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev is being considered as a potential candidate.
On the eve of her 100th birthday Saturday, Ruth Salton told her daughter she was going one way or another to Friday night Shabbat services at Congregation Beth Israel, just days after a gunman voicing antisemitic conspiracy theories held four worshippers hostage for 10 hours at the Fort Wort…
CABO FRIO, Brazil (AP) — In April, Brazil's federal police stormed the helipad of a boutique seaside hotel in Rio de Janeiro state, where they busted two men and a woman loading a chopper with 7 million reais ($1.3 million) in neatly packed bills.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The sweeping “zero-tolerance” strategy that China has used to keep COVID-19 case numbers low and its economy functioning may, paradoxically, make it harder for the country to exit the pandemic.
BROOKHAVEN, Ga. (AP) — A stray bullet struck and killed an English astrophysicist while he was inside an Atlanta-area apartment, authorities say.
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