Greenville officials hope people are ready to discover their wild side with the official opening of Wildwood Park.
Farmville is getting into the Halloween holiday spirit early this year with a Ghost Walk that begins next week.
It was a sign of the times in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Closed theaters with no movies to advertise got creative with their marquees, displaying phrases like, “Now Showing Nothing Starring Nobody,” “When Harry Met Sally on Zoom,” “The Chronicles of Corona” and “To Be Continued.”
A life-saving tool has been given to staff at the JOY Soup Kitchen in Greenville, one that medical leaders agree will make the community healthier.
The family of a long-time Pitt County advocate for the homeless will receive an award bearing her name on Monday.
Meet Fernando Hicks, 40, of Winterville. Hicks has lived in Pitt County his entire life and has been cooking for almost all of that time.
Three men have been arrested after an attempted robbery on Charles Boulevard led to a police chase and crash, the Greenville Police Department reported.
Officers found a man’s photo and other identification items near his overturned vehicle on Allen Road, leading to his arrest for impaired driving.
A proposal to locate a facility that supports cryptocurrency mining near a rural school is expected to bring out opponents to Monday’s Pitt County Board of Commissioners meeting.
On Friday, Michael and Sophia Lyles celebrated as their baby boy managed to stand upright. Next week, they hope to start preparing him for kindergarten.
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A smattering of New Bern football fans walked out of the stadium at J.H. Rose in shock Friday night.
The girls’ tennis team from J.H. Rose will hold its annual Ball Drop again this year after being forced to cancel last year.
From the outside, it can seem like the new freedom to transfer at will has created chaos in college basketball.
The Big Carolina 3A/4A Conference Tennis Tournament proved to be a success for the three Pitt County teams.
Week 10 of the high school football season features a pair of big games in the Big Carolina 3A/4A Conference and the Eastern Plains 2A Conference as teams begin jockeying for possible playoff position.
Wake Forest spent another week distancing itself from the pack, and not just the idle Wolfpack either.
BYH, don't follow the crowd, the crowd is usually wrong!
Bless our hearts, we are going through so much these days. We have to hold on because better days are coming. Remember, sometimes good things fall apart so everything can fall together.
Col. David Hackworth wrote, “politicians only listened to these generals, and these generals only listened to themselves.” At the time of that writing, he was referencing the potential failures of the Vietnam War.
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson saying controversial things could be a reality show. There’s easily enough content for multiple seasons. After all, his ascendency in North Carolina politics emerged from his confrontational speaking style. His mouth is what makes him so popular and disliked at the sam…
Elected officials lead us simply because of their positions — we have chosen them to do so. They lead by policy-making, they lead with the tone they set and the issues they choose to pursue.
Iowa is represented in the U.S. House by three Republicans and one Democrat. After last year's census, an independent advisory commission drew a new map that reaffirmed the current balance, but made one of the Republican districts slightly more competitive.
Farmville is getting into the Halloween holiday spirit early this year with a Ghost Walk that begins next week.
It was a sign of the times in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Closed theaters with no movies to advertise got creative with their marquees, displaying phrases like, “Now Showing Nothing Starring Nobody,” “When Harry Met Sally on Zoom,” “The Chronicles of Corona” and “To Be Continued.”
What does all the hi-tech lighting up the dashboard of a new SUV have to do with God — or the devil?
He’s been called a drunken sailor.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Four years ago, Chrishonda Benson’s daughter told her that she didn’t like her brown skin “because it wasn’t pretty.”
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The 1963 Ford Galaxy looked pristine, a down-to-the-last-detail replica of Sheriff Andy Taylor’s squad car on the “Andy Griffith Show.”
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley was the top third-quarter fundraiser for candidates in next year’s U.S. Senate race in North Carolina, according to documents filed at Friday’s financial reporting deadline.
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven major offshore wind farms would be developed on the East and West coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico under a plan announced Wednesday by the Biden administration.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina signed a milestone energy bill into law Wednesday that aims to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the state's power plants by 2030, celebrating the legislative accomplishment with Republican lawmakers.
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized an electronic cigarette, saying the vaping device from R.J. Reynolds can help smokers cut back on conventional cigarettes.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two women attempted to hang a banner from the Acropolis in Athens Sunday morning in protest at the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, and were detained by Greek police.
NEW DELHI (AP) — At least eight people have died and a dozen are feared missing after a day of torrential rains in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers has landed after a 3 1/2-hour trip from the International Space Station.
ABOARD THE SEABIRD (AP) — As dozens of African migrants traversed the Mediterranean Sea on a flimsy white rubber boat, a small aircraft circling 1,000 feet above closely monitored their attempt to reach Europe.
MIAMI (AP) — Venezuela’s government said Saturday it would halt negotiations with its opponents in retaliation for the extradition to the U.S. of a close ally of President Nicolás Maduro who prosecutors believe could be the most significant witness ever about corruption in the South American…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 11th-hour deal was reached Saturday, averting a strike of film and television crews that would have seen some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers walk off their jobs and would have frozen productions in Hollywood and across the U.S.
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — Bill Clinton will spend one more night at a Southern California hospital where he is recovering from an infection, a spokesman said Saturday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — New York real estate heir Robert Durst has been hospitalized after contracting COVID-19, his lawyer said Saturday.
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