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The following deeds were recorded with the Pitt County Register of Deeds from July 22-28. Each $2 in revenue stamps is equal to $1,000 in valuation. (No fee required.)
The following new corporations in Pitt and neighboring counties filed Aug. 2-6 with the N.C. Secretary of State’s office:
The following deeds of trust were recorded with the Pitt County Register of Deeds from Aug. 19-25:
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The head of Greenville's fire department resigned on Sunday after his arrest in Nash County for intoxicated driving.
Eighty-four students attending Pitt County Schools tested positive for COVID-19 last week, the district reported.
Greenville City Council and GUC’s Board of Commissioners will meet jointly at 6 p.m. on Monday to decide if Juneteenth will be a paid holiday for their workers.
Negotiations between the sheriff’s office and the Pitt County Fair are ongoing after a county commissioner this week said the sheriff was charging the fair too much.
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Watch Ja'Quan McMillian's ninth-career interception for East Carolina, which beat Marshall 42-38 on Saturday night despite trailing 38-21 earlier in the fourth quarter.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- A perfect onside kick, quarterback Holton Ahlers recording a rushing touchdown and receiving touchdown in the fourth quarter and one of the most thrilling comebacks in East Carolina football history.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Members of the 1970 East Carolina football team are in Huntington, W.Va., for the ECU-Marshall football game 51 years after the Nov. 14, 1970, tragic plane crash that killed all 75 people on the MU team flight home from playing at the Pirates.
The Daily Reflector’s full preview content of the East Carolina-Marshall football game ran in the print edition Friday, the same day the Pirates traveled to Huntington, W.Va., for the 6 p.m. Saturday kickoff, and also is available on reflector.com.
SNOW HILL – One streak continued while the other came to an end Friday at Greene Central.
The Pitt Greenville Soccer Association adult league is accepting registrations for its fall season. There is an 11-versus-11, coed league and an over-40 7-versus-7 league.
I see the two far left wing judges do not care what the voters of North Carolina think. The two judges believe that black people are too stupid to get a photo ID. Either that or they want voter fraud, bless their corrupt hearts.
On Sept. 14, 2018, a category 1 Hurricane Florence made landfall just south of Wrightsville Beach. In the days that followed, Florence became one of the most devastating hurricanes on the North Carolina record.
We spent much of last week reflecting on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the heart-wrenching loss of 2,977 lives in a horrific terror attack that forever changed our lives. Everyone remembers where they were as two airliners crashed into the twin towers. And we remember how this unspeakable…
Bless your heart to the Ayden Collard Festival this past weekend. My family and I had the best time. It was so enjoyable. The two bands on Friday and Saturday night were great. Everybody was so nice and, yes, I got collard greens. In fact, I ate collard greens with cornbread. The carnival ri…
Be it recorded that on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, would-be president-for-life Donald Trump skipped the solemn memorial services held to honor 2,997 victims of al-Qaida terror attacks in favor of shilling for a pay-per-view boxing match.
When President Biden announced vigorous new rules, designed to vastly increase the number of Americans inoculated against COVID-19, he warned the nation’s vaccine deniers: “We’ve been patient. But our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us.”
Two area writers will go before a panel of judges later this month to see who will become the 2021 Heart of the Pamlico Poet Laureate. The Pamlico Writers’ Group is hosting the competition at 4 p.m. on Sept. 26 at Pamlico Books, 149 N. Market St., Washington, N.C.
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To me, “the farm” has always meant the farm where my mother grew up, one of 11 children. Every book I ever read that was set on a farm, and many other books as well, all took place in my imagination at my mother’s family farm and the surrounding woods.
When Julian Pleasants died Sept. 7, North Carolina lost one of its most important academic and popular historians.
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CONOVER, N.C. (AP) — Jason Lail was healthy before he got COVID-19. He loved to hunt and fish. He played with his children. He had no medical conditions.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina judges struck down the state’s latest photo voter identification law on Friday, agreeing with minority voters that Republicans rammed through rules tainted by racial bias as a way to remain in power.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A former Army doctor convicted for the infamous 1970 murders of his pregnant wife and two young daughters on a North Carolina base has ended his appeal of a lower court ruling that denied his requested release.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Within his first week back at school after a year and a half, 7-year-old Ben Medlin was exposed to a classmate with COVID-19, and he was sent home, along with 7,000 other students in the district, for 14 days of quarantine.
LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A memorial service will be held Friday for Jim Snyder Jr., an attorney, author and conservative candidate for statewide office in North Carolina.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Rep. Verla Insko, the longest-serving House Democrat currently in the chamber, announced on Wednesday she won't seek reelection next year.
Amazon wants to hire 125,000 delivery and warehouse workers and said Tuesday that it is paying new hires an average of $18 an hour in a tight job market as more people shop online.
Fearing his parents wouldn’t approve of his decision to get a COVID-19 vaccine but needing their signature, Andrew signed up for the appointment in secret, and then sprang it on them at the last minute.
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MOSCOW (AP) — A gunman opened fire in a university in the Russian city of Perm on Monday morning, leaving eight people dead and others wounded, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee.
World shares and U.S. futures fell Monday after Wall Street ended last week with another decline.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's dominant Kremlin-backed party appeared set to retain the two-thirds majority in the parliament that allows it to change the constitution, results from 85% of the country's polling stations showed on Monday morning.
OK, it definitely wasn’t the Pandemmys, or the Zoomemmys, or whatever you want to call last year’s virtual Emmy ceremony — with everyone at home, and visitors in hazmat suits showing up to bestow awards.
Pressure keeps building on increasingly anxious world leaders to ratchet up efforts to fight climate change. There's more of it coming this week in one of the highest-profile forums of all — the United Nations.
CAIRO — The extremist Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly bombings targeting Taliban vehicles in eastern Afghanistan.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, people now eat only green leaves for days. At a health center last week, a mother and her newborn weighing just 1.7 pounds died from hunger. In every district of the more than 20 where one aid group works, residents have starved to death.
BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (AP) — Shortly after sundown, Yaakov Tabersky presented his firstborn son on a silver platter to a Jewish priest in a ceremony harking back to the biblical exodus from Egypt.
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