CAMDEN — Paula Harrison likes her job as Clerk of Superior Court for Camden County. To keep it, she’ll first have to fend off a challenge in the May 8 Democratic primary and then defeat a Republican opponent in the fall.
A crowd of about 150 that included Elizabeth City State University students and community members lit candles and released balloons Wednesday evening in memory of Victoria Jalissa Bradsher-Daniel, a 2012 ECSU graduate who was killed in a pedestrian accident near the university campus on Saturday.…
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Voters across the state begin early voting today for the May 8 Democratic and Republican primaries.
In Pasquotank, the Democratic primary ballot includes four candidates vying for their party’s nomination for sheriff: Eddie Graham, Brent McKecuen, Tobie McPherson and Todd Wagner. The…
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A woman charged with being an accessory after the fact to the weekend shooting of a Pasquotank County man claims the shooting occurred because the victim had improper sexual contact with her 4-year-old daughter.
Racquel Gibbs, 34, claimed during a phone interview Tuesday that Deonte Stokley, the…
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A core group of local men is working to establish 100 Black Men of Northeastern North Carolina to address what some are calling a leadership vacuum in the area.
“We have a void of effective leadership,” said Bishop Ernest Sutton during a meeting last weekend at Faithway Apostolic Church…
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HERTFORD — Two Perquimans County men are facing cocaine trafficking charges after they and three other persons were apprehended in a roundup of alleged drug traffickers in North Carolina and Arizona, authorities said on Wednesday.
Gregory Whidbee, 41, of the 800 block of Ocean Highway,…
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MANTEO — A Currituck County man facing drug-trafficking charges has also been charged with second-degree murder following the apparent drug-overdose death of a man he’s accused of supplying heroin.
Tyrique Lazara Wise, 32, of the 100 block of Newbern Road, Jarvisburg, was arrested…
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U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., is seeking his 13th and final term serving northeastern North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District, and one of the questions before Republican voters in next month’s GOP primary is whether the longtime congressman’s willingness to defy his party’s…
Jones challenged by 2 in GOP primary/News/2018/04/18/Jones-challenged-by-2-in-primary.html11
Craven County Commissioner Scott Dacey continues to outraise incumbent Congressman Walter Jones in the three-way Republican primary in the 3rd Congressional District, but Jones has outspent the challenger, the latest federal campaign finance filings show.
According to the Federal Elections…
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