Tuesday’s victory by Sandy Smith spells defeat for Republicans in November, the campaign manager for a primary rival said Wednesday, but a backer of Smith said she will be “taking her frying pan to Washington.”
Pitt County Schools’ elementary students will return to pencil and paper homework assignments when they go back to school in August, officials said.
Greenville Mayor P.J. Connelly handily won a third term on Tuesday, defeating challenger Elizabeth Liles 6,680 votes to 3,298 votes, according to Tuesday’s unofficial election results.
Pitt County Schools was not among the two dozen school districts across North Carolina to receive a share of $400 million in new state lottery-funded grant awards for school construction. Officials announced Monday that none of the seven schools that applied were granted funding for addition…
State Sen. Don Davis easily won the Democratic primary for 1st District congressional seat Tuesday, while Sandy Smith won a tight race over and Sandy Roberson and the GOP field.
While Pitt County’s state legislative elections were not close contests, the race for state Senate District 5 appeared to be a landslide.
Incumbent councilwomen Rose Glover and Monica Daniels said winning a new term on Greenville City Council gives them more time to help residents get the changes they need to thrive.
‘La Cage Aux Folles’: Farmville Community Arts Center will present “La Cage Aux Folles” at 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday in Paramount Theatre, 3723 N. Main St., Farmville. Additional matinee performances are scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Pitt County residents can share how they want the community to function in 20 years in a series of input sessions starting Thursday.
Greene County's appointed sheriff defeated a challenge from another veteran law enforcement officer on Tuesday to win the Democratic primary.
Local Events
The East Carolina baseball team got to the finish line first.
Rob Maloney was named director of athletics for Pitt County Schools on Wednesday, according to an announcement from PCS Superintendent Ethan Lenker.
Tuesday night saw eight area teams in action between the third round of the NCHSAA softball and baseball playoffs and the opening round of the girls’ soccer playoffs.
Greenville’s Angela Stewart finished in sixth place gross in the 18th Senior Women’s Amateur Championships held at Alamance Country Club in Burlington too highlight the week for local golfers. She was playing in the first flight.
The East Carolina baseball team has a way of turning potentially game-changing moments for an opponent into an afterthought.
D.H. Conley grabbed the momentum early with a pair of three-run innings and never gave it back on the way to a 9-2 win over Holly Springs in a NCHSAA 4A third-round softball contest Tuesday night.
On March 30, federal Judge Louise Flanagan ruled that there is evidence enough to justify a trial in the case of Sean Rambert Jr’s death at the hands of Greenville police officer David Johnson.
Wow, economic development is off the charts: another gas station. What are they all going to do in another decade or so when we are all driving electric cars?
In the wake of 18-year-old Payton Gendron allegedly opening fire on people in the parking lot of a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., on Sunday, May 15, a 180-page manifesto has emerged, suggesting that Gendron “belongs to a global fraternity fused by the internet and fixated on the idea that whi…
Suppose you own an investment portfolio that contains valuable, goods-producing assets, some of which are too costly to buy, or may not even exist in the marketplace. The United States Forest Service [USFS] manages many taxpayer-owned natural assets. Among the best-performing is the Pisgah-N…
Long before a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion revealed that by summer Roe v. Wade will likely be overturned, only pregnant people bore the burden of pregnancy — not just physically, but also financially. “Impregnators” have always had the choice to walk away. Sure, they could be on the ho…
How are we going to use the results of the May 17 primary to measure Donald Trump’s influence over the North Carolina Republican Party?
This fantastic flower was produced on a tree at what we here in Columbia call the Belser Arboretum, a 7-acre (or so) tract of forested land pretty much in the middle of the city, and two blocks from my home.
I’ll repeat last week’s COVID tip. If you want to wear a mask, do so. There may only be a few of you in a crowd that do, but Americans still are getting sick and some are dying every day. Eat healthy (most of the time), be physically active, wash your hands often and mind your distance.
Tabbouleh is a bulgur salad; in fact, it’s also a very green salad. It consists of an abundance of fresh garden herbs, jumbled together with bulgur, citrus and olive oil, which paint this salad an unmistakable green. You might also call tabbouleh a very greedy salad, since there seems to be …
The Service League of Greenville has pledged a $2 million endowment to sustain programs and services within ECU Health Medical Center. This matches the organization’s gift to the Vidant Cancer Center capital campaign in 2015.
D.H. Conley High School students recently received honors at the DECA International Career Development Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
Emery Davis summarized the character of his friend and adventure accomplice succinctly: “Charles Alford was never just about Charles Alford.”
State AP Stories
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several state legislators won't be returning to the North Carolina General Assembly next January after primary losses, while former lawmakers had mixed results in trying to get back to the House or Senate.
Printing mistakes will force local election officials in Pennsylvania and Oregon to redo thousands of mailed ballots, a laborious process that could delay results for some closely contested races in Tuesday's primaries.
RALElGH, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ted Budd and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley won their respective Senate primaries on Tuesday, setting up a fall election matchup that should again test former President Donald Trump's influence in North Carolina.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump’s choice for Pennsylvania governor won his primary Tuesday night and his Senate pick was locked in an exceedingly close contest as the former president worked to expand his hold on the Republican Party.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — First-term U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost his Republican primary race Tuesday to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, after the pro-Donald Trump firebrand's personal and political blunders translated into voter unhappiness.
Former President Donald Trump’s winning streak in U.S. Senate primaries is on the line today as voters in North Carolina and four other states cast their ballots in midterm elections.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's winning streak in U.S. Senate primaries is on the line Tuesday as voters in five states cast their ballots in midterm elections.
WILSON, N.C. (AP) — Wilson County’s only commercial hemp grower says if medical marijuana becomes legal in North Carolina, he will be a good candidate to grow it with the knowledge he has gained.
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National & World AP Stories
The U.S. Soccer Federation reached milestone agreements to pay its men's and women's teams equally, making the American national governing body the first in the sport to promise both sexes matching money.
TOKYO (AP) — Shares dropped sharply in Asia on Thursday after a broad retreat on Wall Street triggered by dismal results from major retailer Target that renewed worries over the impact of high inflation.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Nearly 1,000 last-ditch Ukrainian fighters who had held out inside Mariupol's pulverized steel plant have surrendered, Russia said Wednesday, as the battle that turned the city into a worldwide symbol of defiance and suffering drew toward a close.
NEW YORK (AP) — Massachusetts on Wednesday reported a rare case of monkeypox in a man who recently traveled to Canada, and health officials are looking into whether it is connected to small outbreaks in Europe.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd, admitting that he intentionally helped restrain the Black man in a way that created an unreasonable risk and cau…
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — He was known by all as simply Dr. John, the quiet, calm physician who mentored kids in kung fu, finding time between patient appointments to encourage people to learn self-defense. So it was no surprise to friends and colleagues that John Cheng spent his final mome…
Shortly before he opened fire, the white gunman accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket allowed a small group of people to see his detailed plans for the attack, which he had been chronicling for months in a private, online diary.
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO envoys failed to reach a consensus Wednesday on whether to start membership talks with Finland and Sweden, diplomats said, as Turkey renewed its objections to the two Nordic countries joining.
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