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Written across the top of Alexis Langley’s graduation cap was the phrase, “Bake the world a better place.”
After being canceled last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Elizabeth City’s waterfront summer music series will return for its 10th season Tuesday night.
RALEIGH — 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.
As part of the U.S. Coast Guard’s upcoming 231st anniversary, residents are invited to attend an online event honoring the men and women of the seagoing service.
Needed water and sewer relief is coming to more than two dozen homes on Elizabeth City’s Ray Street.
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It was a standout year for the Currituck County High School girls tennis team.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — East Carolina senior punter Jonn Young is one of 51 players named to the 2021 Ray Guy Award Watch List according to an announcement by the Augusta Sports Council Wednesday. Young is the first Pirate to be named to the watch list since Worth Gregory in 2016.
They were side by side down to the finish as race fans stood and watched in anticipation. Chris Ware piloted his number 43 car out in front, just ahead of Jerald Harris on the 25th and final lap to claim the Virginia Sprint Series victory at Dixieland Speedway this past Friday evening.
BARCO — More than 50 youth and middle school aged athletes took part in a football clinic hosted by the Carolina Storm Youth Football Club and Currituck County High School this week.
EDENTON — It wasn’t the Edenton Steamers night on Tuesday, as they fell to the Greenbrier Knights 6-0.
Camden County’s Andre Barnett had a standout season this winter.
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I’m no mind reader. So it’s hard to tell whether a recent attack on proposed N.C. tax cuts represents a case of willful ignorance or deliberate misdirection.
State Senate Republicans regularly ignore the needs of underfunded public schools, but some of them are moving with urgency to dismantle one dimension of public schools that is well-funded and widely supported — the governance of high school sports.
In the United States, various institutions and groups have made efforts to combat the problem of human trafficking. As first responders, local law enforcement agencies play a critical role in identifying and responding to human trafficking cases.
Mark Twain once said, “It’s difficult to make predictions, particularly about the future.” Economists like me often use the comment as an opening line in our public presentations. The reasons are, the quote is funny, and it’s usually very true.
I recently heard a knuckleheaded, skinhead supremacist say, "Without white people this country would not exist."
My grandmother was a wonderful country cook and I was raised up on country food. These gourmet restaurants cannot compare to the downhome taste of country food.
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One of my favorite verses in Scripture is John 10:10, where Jesus reminds us that the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but He came that we may have life and have it to the fullest.
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Editor’s note: The following is a condensed version of a recent sermon delivered by the Rev. C. Renee Edwards, pastor of Mt. Hermon and Woodland United Methodist churches.
EDENTON — In the wake of the announcement that Todd’s Pharmacy is selling its stores to CVS Health, independent pharmacies in the area say they are hanging on amid rising economic pressure.
Is there any tougher question in life than, “What are you looking for?”
During the first years of European settlement, women in North Carolina wore many layers of clothing.
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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.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's health department will require workers, volunteers and others at 14 state-run health care facilities to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by Sept. 30 unless they qualify for a medical or religious exemption, according to a memo.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has offered some of the victims' families nearly $33 million to settle their lawsuit over how the company marketed the firearm to the public.
Spurred by skyrocketing consumer demand during the pandemic, restaurant delivery companies like DoorDash and Uber Eats are rapidly expanding their services to grocers, convenience stores, pharmacies, pet stores and even department stores.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Fred Ware and his son were researching the history of the home he's owned in the Hartford suburbs since 1950 when they discovered something far uglier than they expected.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Another major North Carolina hospital system will require workers to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The number of North Carolinians in the hospital due to COVID-19 has doubled in the last two weeks, the 14-day rolling average of new daily cases has increased by nearly 200% and the share of tests coming back positive is at its highest level in more than five months.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scarlett Johansson is suing the Walt Disney Co. over its streaming release of “Black Widow,” which she said breached her contract and deprived her of potential earnings.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The largest earthquake in the United States in the last half century produced a lot of shaking but spared Alaska any major damage in a sparsely populated region, officials said Thursday.
A newly arrived Russian science lab briefly knocked the International Space Station out of position Thursday.
BOSTON (AP) — Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in Massachusetts in 1974, court records show.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — There were cheers and screams and “happy tears” for one of their own, and unending delight for what many saw as an “Only in America” story.
ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp sought to shift blame to President Joe Biden for Georgia’s poor vaccination rate Thursday as COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations continued to sprint upward.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister on Thursday announced that the country would offer a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who have already been vaccinated.
U.S. regulators took action Wednesday that will make it easier to get a cheaper, near-copy of a brand-name insulin at the drugstore.
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