A long-time community advocate and former City Council member announced Monday she plans to file for election on Dec. 6.
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The following deeds were recorded with the Pitt County Register of Deeds from Sept. 23-29. Each $2 in revenue stamps is equal to $1,000 in valuation. (No fee required.)
The following deeds of trust were recorded with the Pitt County Register of Deeds from Oct. 21-27:
Community leaders in Farmville will break ground Monday for a new outdoor event venue that will honor the past and look toward the future.
Greenville-area runners pound the pavement for a good cause ahead of their Thanksgiving dinner.
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.
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East Carolina is headed back to the Military Bowl.
What worked for the East Carolina women’s basketball team in the first half of Sunday’s game against visiting Campbell was also the source of a great undoing.
Tristen Newton doesn’t like to dwell on the past. Even if the past was just seconds ago.
The East Carolina football team finalized its Bowl Game plans.
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.
BMH, I wonder, is it gerrymandering, or un-gerrymandering?
BYH to the Bhagavad Gita, which stated: "There never was a time when you and I did not exist. Nor will there be any future when we shall cease to be."
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.
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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PILOT MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — Fire crews in North Carolina are working to control a fire in Pilot Mountain State Park that has already burned hundreds of acres.
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — University of Maine researchers are trying to produce potatoes that can better withstand warming temperatures as the climate changes.
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 …
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is steadying itself Monday from last week's slide caused by the newest coronavirus variant, as investors wait for more clues about just how much damage it may do to the economy.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has stepped down as CEO of the social media platform. He has been succeeded by Twitter's current chief technology officer, Parag Agrawal.
BRUSSELS (AP) — Taking an act-now-ask-questions-later approach, countries around the world slammed their doors shut again to try to keep the new omicron variant at bay Monday as more cases of the mutant coronavirus emerged and scientists raced to figure out just how dangerous it might be.
BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — A former University of Alabama track star and Olympian was killed in a shootout with another man, authorities say.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Leftist opposition candidate Xiomara Castro held a commanding lead Monday as Hondurans appeared poised to remove the conservative National Party from power after 12 years of continuous rule.
NEW YORK (AP) — Two years after Jeffrey Epstein's suicide behind bars, a jury was selected Monday in New York City to determine a central question in the long-running sex trafficking case: Was his longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s puppet or accomplice?
Lee Elder, who broke down racial barriers as the first Black golfer to play in the Masters and paved the way for Tiger Woods and others to follow, has died at the age of 87.
VIENNA (AP) — Negotiators in Vienna resumed talks Monday over reviving Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, with the United States taking part at arms length as in previous rounds since the Trump administration pulled out of the accord three years ago.
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