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Elizabeth City is seeking a U.S. Department of Justice grant money that would add two sworn officers to the city’s police department.
New COVID-19 cases in the eight-county region rose by nearly 100 last week while the number of first vaccine doses administered to fight the virus was down by more than half from the week before.
Megan Wallace’s dream of owning a home decor business finally came true in May when she opened Pine & Porch on Colonial Avenue.
As activists mark more than 100 days of protest since the April 21 death of Andrew Brown Jr. — killed outside his Elizabeth City home as police officers served a warrant on drug charges — faith leaders are now voicing support for drug law reform.
TARBORO — It was gut-check time at Tarboro Municipal Stadium on Sunday night as Tarboro’s River Bandits (24-13) and Edenton’s Steamers (16-13) met in a Premier Collegiate League East Division elimination game. Tarboro won, 3-2, on a bases-loaded wild pitch in the bottom of the 10th inning.
Elizabeth City native Aaron Carver completed his first professional basketball season in Slovenia with Hopsi Polzela this spring.
WRVS-FM 89.9 hosted the sixth NENC High School Football media day Friday morning at the K.E. White Center on the campus of Elizabeth City State University.
EDENTON — Friday night was action packed. Unfortunately for the Steamers, they fell short in ten innings, 8-4.
Knobbs Creek Park will host the Don Helms Memorial 3-man superball tournament Saturday, Aug. 28 at 9 a.m. at the Par-3 course.
I love the Olympics.
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How much say should the public have about public education? Parental revolts against “wokeness” fads in the classroom are all the rage right now, but gaps between public preferences and the practice of public education didn’t suddenly begin a few months ago. They’ve been around for decades.
The headline raised the dreaded c-word that deeply divides Democrats — Centrist: “Jackson projects centrist platform in NC campaign for Senate.”
As the U.S. recovers from a pandemic, with workers in services and manufacturing in short supply across the economy, here’s what no one sensible thinks America urgently needs: a huge new federal Civilian Climate Corps.
The great evil of our country is the white man. The white man is the problem. The white man is privileged. That’s what I got from Martha Johnson’s and Robert Reich’s columns in your newspaper this week.
Every day in counties across North Carolina, citizens, judges, jurors, attorneys entering their local courthouse must walk by monuments to soldiers who defended the Confederate’s support of the horrendously cruel institution of slavery.
The First Amendment protects perhaps our most cherished right, freedom of expression. It’s printed atop this page.
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“There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more, and there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want. The generous man will be prosperous, and he who waters will himself be watered.” — Proverbs 11:24-25
The message to Catholic traditionalists in Southwest England was blunt, yet pointed.
One of the perks of being president of the Albemarle Area Association of Realtors is getting to choose the recipient of the funds raised at the group’s annual dinner social.
There are many tools that home gardeners use that are not much different from those used by farmers except for scale and cost.
At the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill, I found a remarkable collection of oral history interviews from the North Carolina coast during the Great Depression.
“But, I don’t understand.”
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — Gabe Imondi, a 74-year-old landlord from Rhode Island, had come to court hoping to get his apartment back. He was tired of waiting for federal rental assistance and wondered aloud “what they’re doing with that money?”
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — It wasn't long after Iliana Diaz began her first day in person at Legal Aid's Raleigh office that she and others were hit by a tsunami of phone calls.
BOSTON (AP) — The eviction system, which saw a dramatic drop in cases before a federal moratorium expired over the weekend, rumbled back into action Monday, with activists girding for the first of what could be millions of tenants to be tossed onto the streets as the delta variant of the cor…
CHICAGO (AP) — Rapper DaBaby was cut Sunday from Lollapalooza's closing lineup following crude and homophobic remarks he made last week at a Miami-area music festival.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal freeze on most evictions enacted last year is scheduled to expire Saturday, after President Joe Biden's administration extended the date by a month. The moratorium, put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September, was the only tool k…
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — After her work as a substitute teacher in New York City dried up, Ameena Ahmed got a welcome $4,200 boost last summer in federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday decided to reverse course from guidance he issued last week and will now urge all K-12 public school students and staff to be masked, even if they have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
A couple of weeks after announcing his retirement from Gov. Roy Cooper’s Cabinet, Erik Hooks is in line for a top federal emergency management post.
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TOKYO (AP) — The Latest on the Tokyo Olympics, which are taking place under heavy restrictions after a year’s delay because of the coronavirus pandemic:
SYDNEY — Australia's Qantas Group says it expects Sydney’s COVID-19 lockdown to last for at least another two months and it will furlough 2,500 staff due to an associated downturn in domestic flights.
BEIRUT (AP) — After the massive explosion at Beirut’s port a year ago, only a small part of Ibrahim Hoteit’s younger brother was identified: his scalp. Hoteit buried his brother — a large man, a firefighter, a martial arts champion — in a container the size of a shoebox.
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower on Tuesday as jitters about the spread of the coronavirus's delta variant dented enthusiasm about strong corporate profits.
TOKYO (AP) — The image of Communist China's founding leader, Mao Zedong, made an unscheduled appearance at the Tokyo Olympics, and the International Olympic Committee said Tuesday it is “looking into the matter.”
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has sent nearly half a million dollars to farmers who have vaccinated their cattle against respiratory diseases and other maladies over the past two years.
TOKYO (AP) — Holding each other tighter than lovers, the wrestlers smear each other with sweat, spittle and — when they inadvertently cut each other — sometimes blood. Lungs heaving, mouths agape, they huff and puff into each others' flushed faces. On their glistening bodies, it's impossible…
IZU, Japan (AP) — Everybody expected records to fall when the track cycling program began at the Tokyo Olympics, but nobody expected the German women's pursuit squad to shatter the mark held by the two-time and defending gold medalists from Britain. Or the Chinese to lower their team sprint …
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