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Coming back to Elizabeth City State University for Homecoming festivities filled a two-year void for retired U.S. Navy Capt. Tony Swain.
Albemarle Regional Health Services will announce next week whom is eligible for booster shots of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines and where and when they can get them, the agency said Friday.
Thanks to an all-out effort by local law enforcement, emergency responders and the U.S. Coast Guard, two men who got lost in a swampy area of southern Pasquotank County Thursday night were eventually able to find their way home.
An Elizabeth City man is free on bond after being charged with three felony counts of speeding to elude arrest in connection with Wednesday’s traffic accident involving a loaded school bus.
HERTFORD — The Perquimans County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a complaint by Town Councilman Quentin Jackson against Perquimans businessman Patrick Morrissey.
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Multiple area schools played in North Carolina High School Athletic Association volleyball state playoff games on Saturday.
BARCO — The Northeastern High School varsity football team defeated Currituck County 38-30 on Friday night inside Knights Stadium on the campus of Currituck County High School.
NORFOLK, Va. — The Old Dominion men’s golf team will cap its fall season as it hosts the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate this Sunday through Tuesday at Kilmarlic Golf Club in Powells Point.
Northeastern High School’s Jordan Jones had a quick turnaround during the latter portion of the 2020-2021 high school athletic year.
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I love when the seasons combine.
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Getting to know my patients and learning about their lives has always been one of the highlights of my career as a family nurse practitioner. That love of helping people is also what inspires me to serve my fellow North Carolinians in the North Carolina House of Representatives. It is a privilege to help both my constituents and my patients.
Diana and I were reminiscing about the year we had 36 babysitters.
Are North Carolinians safer today than they were a decade ago? That depends on how you define the term “safe.”
Many people are sharing their favorite Colin Powell stories, and here’s mine: As the child of immigrants from Jamaica, he grew up in a working-class neighborhood of the South Bronx. Behind every window or curtain, he told me, there was a pair of eyes, usually belonging to an elderly woman, watching the streets and the children who played there — not just their own relatives, but everyone else’s, too.
The disgraced former British spy Christopher Steele has kept a low profile in recent years. Understandably so, given that investigations revealed his dossier — the collection of anti-Trump stories he compiled to try to undermine Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential candidacy — was filled with falsehoods and unverifiable claims. But now Steele has granted an interview to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. And if you were wondering whether Steele feels any remorse for being so wrong about something so important, wonder no more: He doesn’t.
As the nation’s political press obsess over the fate of the administration’s Build Back Better proposal, nothing less than the ultimate success or failure of Joe Biden’s presidency is said to be at stake. And yet here’s the great paradox: Taken separately, the elements of the Democrats’ social spending proposals poll extremely well.
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Editor’s note: The following is the seventh story in a multi-part series about the history of Elizabeth City State University’s football program. This story details that history during the 1980s.
Halloween is a tradition that has been passed on for generations. Over time traditions have changed and are still changing today. It is celebrated on Oct. 31 each year.
For 30 years, Reed Adams taught college students the theories he and fellow sociologists and criminologists have developed for why crimes occur and what motivates the people who commit them.
No one wants to think that their child is being bullied at school, but unfortunately it happens more than we would like to believe.
Time is running out for Elizabeth City State University history assistant professor Dr. Melissa Stuckey and the history students in two of her classes.
“Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men” — Colossians 3:20.
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The city of Gastonia ended Hispanic Heritage Month on Saturday with its first Latin American Festival, connecting Gaston County’s growing Latino community with resources and other residents.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The shooting death of a cinematographer on the set of the set of the Alec Baldwin movie “Rust” is a reminder of the dangers that can exist on film and television sets. As authorities investigate why a crew member handed Baldwin a loaded gun instead of one safe to use, indu…
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The porcupines were walking slow and funny, more so than they usually do.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican legislative leaders sent another negotiating offer to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday as top government officials still attempt to enact a long-overdue two year budget.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina’s flagship public university can continue to consider race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions, rebuffing a conservative group's argument that affirmative action disadvantages white and Asian students.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two longtime Democratic congressmen with a combined six decades of experience announced Monday that they plan to retire at the end of their terms, another worrying sign for the party's uphill climb to keep control of the House in next year's midterm elections.
Some college towns plan to challenge the results of the 2020 census, claiming they were shortchanged because the pandemic forced students to leave campuses and complaining that the undercount could cost them federal money and prestige.
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.”
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RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Followers of a Sufi religious order convened on a Moroccan village near the city of Nador for the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad in the first such gathering since the pandemic.
NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Facebook in India has been selective in curbing hate speech, misinformation and inflammatory posts, particularly anti-Muslim content, according to leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press, even as its own employees cast doubt over the company’s motivations an…
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world's poorest…
ATLANTA (AP) — Led by an unlikely hero, the Atlanta Braves are heading back to a place that used to be so familiar to them.
Freddie Freeman swinging onto baseball’s biggest stage for the first time, Jose Altuve & Co. back for more. Luis Garcia, Framber Valdez and a fresh set of Houston arms facing Ozzie Albies, Austin Riley and these eager, young Atlanta bats.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Hours before actor Alec Baldwin fired a fatal gunshot from a prop gun that he had been told was safe, a camera crew for the movie he was filming walked off the job to protest conditions and production issues that included safety concerns.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant's widow said she pleaded with the Los Angeles County sheriff to make sure no one takes photographs from the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed the basketball star, and he reassured that the area had been secured, court documents say.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian security forces have captured the country’s most wanted drug trafficker, a rural warlord who stayed on the run for more than a decade by corrupting state officials and aligning himself with combatants on the left and right.
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