News Stories
The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 put an end to a decade of year-over-year growth in visitor spending in Pasquotank County.
Elizabeth City police are investigating a fatal shooting at Hickory Village Mobile Home Park Sunday that involved a 5-year-old child.
Elizabeth City has been awarded more than $90,000 in state grant funds to repair and reopen George M. Wood Memorial Park on the Camden Causeway.
Visitors to Elizabeth City will now have an easier time finding local historic sites and places to eat and shop as new wayfinding signs are being installed.
RALEIGH — A contractor’s failure to follow established safety procedures led to the collapse of a section of a bridge linking North Carolina’s mainland to Hatteras Island, killing one worker and injuring another, according to federal regulators.
Local Events
BARCO — The Currituck County High School varsity football team defeated Pasquotank County 56-8 in a Northeastern Coastal Conference matchup Friday at Currituck County High School.
HERTFORD — Perquimans County [4-2, 2-2 Four Rivers Conference] rolled up over 450 yards of line of scrimmage offense to overwhelm conference foe Bertie County [1-5, 1-3 FRC], by a final score of 46-6 on homecoming night at Charles H. Ward Field.
BARCO — In Currituck County, Vic Ramsey and the sport of tennis go hand in hand.
College football is as unpredictable as I can ever remember it being.
Saturday’s Games
HERTFORD — The Perquimans Lady Pirates volleyball team defeated the Riverside Lady Knights 3-0 at home on Thursday evening. Set scores for the game were 25-16, 25-15, 25-12.
Opinion
Our Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is giving the left fits. He is passionate, articulate, unwavering Christian, and the biggest sin of all — conservative.
I think it’s very important to understand that our republic was not in danger on Jan. 6th. Ongoing articles in the editorial pages and the left-wing media would have you believe the so-called insurrection was worst than 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. It is clear that the events of Jan. 6th occurred m…
Elected officials lead us simply because of their positions — we have chosen them to do so. They lead by policy-making, they lead with the tone they set and the issues they choose to pursue.
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson saying controversial things could be a reality show. There’s easily enough content for multiple seasons. After all, his ascendency in North Carolina politics emerged from his confrontational speaking style. His mouth is what makes him so popular and disliked at the same time. Robinson even dares to weigh in on specific social issues where only one opinion is allowed now in the public square.
Iowa is represented in the U.S. House by three Republicans and one Democrat. After last year's census, an independent advisory commission drew a new map that reaffirmed the current balance, but made one of the Republican districts slightly more competitive.
Driving home from the dog park, I was surprised to hear the (Dixie) Chicks’ terrific song “Wide Open Spaces” on the country oldies station. The group had been banished from country radio since 2003 after saying George W. Bush made them embarrassed to be Texans.
Features
The museum is a place where stories are told, some of which are commonplace dealing with everyday experiences, and some featuring artifacts related to extraordinary events.
Elizabeth City native Sandra Sutton has learned vital lessons about dealing with adversity and now shares them with others in a new book and in personal appearances.
This past month, I had the opportunity to travel to the western part of North Carolina and brought home some of the most delicious locally grown apples. They were some of the best I’ve ever tasted.
Elizabeth City State University has been awarded more than $1 million by the U.S. Department of Education to help middle and high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds succeed in higher education.
Loving another person is just about the hardest thing there is to do in this life. I don’t mean love like in a romantic novel or sappy movie. I mean really love.
Alex Domingue has made Elizabeth City State University history. The aviation science student and current ECSU flight instructor is the first Viking to be accepted into United Airlines’ AVIATE program, which is designed to prepare him for a career as a commercial airline pilot.
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Articles
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State AP Stories
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.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. David Price, the current dean of North Carolina's congressional delegation, announced Monday he won't seek reelection in 2022.
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.”
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The 1963 Ford Galaxy looked pristine, a down-to-the-last-detail replica of Sheriff Andy Taylor’s squad car on the “Andy Griffith Show.”
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley was the top third-quarter fundraiser for candidates in next year’s U.S. Senate race in North Carolina, according to documents filed at Friday’s financial reporting deadline.
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven major offshore wind farms would be developed on the East and West coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico under a plan announced Wednesday by the Biden administration.
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National & World AP Stories
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jury selection got underway Monday in Georgia, with hundreds of people ordered to report for what could be a lengthy effort to find jurors in the trial of three white men charged with fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery as he was running in their neighborhood.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County is seeking to compel psychiatric evaluations for Kobe Bryant's widow and others to determine if they truly suffered emotional distress after first responders took and shared graphic photos from the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed the basket…
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Monday suspended its mission at NATO and ordered the closure of the alliance's office in Moscow in retaliation for NATO's expulsion of Russian diplomats.
Stocks wobbled to a mixed finish on Wall Street Monday as the market’s momentum slowed down following its best week since July.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump was questioned Monday in a deposition for a lawsuit brought by protesters who say his security team roughed them up in the early days of his presidential campaign in 2015.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The usually chaotic streets of Haiti’s capital were quiet and largely empty Monday as thousands of workers angry about the nation’s lack of security went on strike in protest two days after 17 members of a U.S.-based missionary group were abducted by a violent gang.
BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah declared for the first time Monday that his powerful militant group has 100,000 trained fighters.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopian military airstrikes hit the capital of the country’s Tigray region and killed at least three people, witnesses said Monday, returning the war abruptly to the city of Mekele after several months of peace.
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