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Pasquotank commissioners approved a Peace Initiative earlier this week that will include forming a Citizen’s Advisory Council to review allegations of misconduct by the Sheriff’s Office, among other duties.
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Throughout the investigation into the murder of Milton Henry Sawyer Jr., his wife repeatedly claimed that she was unaware of Isaac Melcher’s plan to visit the Sawyers’ residence in the early hours of Aug. 2, 2018.
Elizabeth City State University will launch its 2021-22 Community Connections Performance and Lecture Series with both a performance and talk by Grammy-winning “super producer” 9th Wonder.
Someone who played the Powerball lottery game in Elizabeth City didn’t win the $457 million jackpot in Wednesday’s drawing but they were $1 million richer Thursday morning.
Milton Henry Sawyer Jr.’s cause of death was asphyxia caused by traumatic neck injuries, a forensic pathologist told jurors in Angel Marie Sawyer’s first-degree murder trial on Wednesday.
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KITTY HAWK — The Fellowship of Christian Athletes will hold its first of two back-to-back Fall Fundraiser Benefits on Monday, October 25, 2021, at Camp Cale in Hertford, followed by the second Benefit, Tuesday, October 26, at the Ramada Plaza in Kill Devil Hills. This year’s event will featu…
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The Northeastern High School football team defeated First Flight High School 52-0 Wednesday night inside the Northeastern Athletic Complex on the campus of Northeastern High School in Elizabeth City.
BARCO — The Currituck County High School boys soccer team defeated Camden County 4-0 Wednesday evening at Currituck County High School.
I met Arthur back in the early 1990’s. We both were doing sports collector conventions, and found ourselves on the same airplane flights as we both lived in south Florida, and were traveling to the same destinations. We became friends, and to save on expenses we sometimes shared a hotel room…
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There’s no sugarcoating it: More that 50 percent of North Carolina’s school children failed to achieve grade-level expectations last year.
In 1983, Tom Cruise starred in the film “Risky Business.” It’s about wealthy parents in Chicago who go on vacation and leave the house under the stewardship of their high school-age son.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is a woman of the people. So much so that she walked past a Black Lives Matter protest outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and joined the starry Met Gala inside as a guest earlier this week.
It is incomprehensible that people would put horse dewormer into their bodies because they don’t want to take the coronavirus vaccine. Or bleach. Even our demented, twice-impeached one-term former president has finally told his rabid-Republican base to get the vaccine.
It’s amazing to me how the liberals are out there supporting Gen. Mark Milley. Had the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff done the same thing to former President Obama that he did to former President Trump the liberals would have had his head on a platter. But because it was done to Trump…
Zac Campbell paused suddenly and took a minute to gather himself, while colleagues shuffled toward him to touch his back in support. The emotion that can accompany the act of baring one’s soul in front of a phalanx of TV cameras, photographers, and notepad-bearing journalists on a controversial matter of public policy had briefly caught up with the veteran Wake County school bus driver. For someone who usually does most of his public speaking into a rearview mirror as he addresses a gaggle of energetic kids, speaking in public in front of the state Legislative Building last Friday was clearly a new and challenging experience.
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Thanks to the wonders of telework, Diana Flippo was able to start her new job at Food Bank of the Albemarle in May without having to physically move to Elizabeth City.
We all have busy schedules. Along with the pressures of work, what’s in the news and current events can also be a little overwhelming for both parents and kids. Add the start of a new school year and you have the makings for a very stressful situation.
In 1857, just before the beginning of the Civil War, the sinking of the S.S. Central America 200 miles off the North Carolina coast caught so much attention it could be called the 19th century’s Titanic.
HERTFORD — Fans of music and craft beverages again have the opportunity to Toast the Perquimans after the COVID-19 pandemic forced cancellation of last year’s event.
FARMVILLE — Inside the oldest home in Farmville’s Historic District, the May Museum boasts some 10,000 artifacts and 20,000 photographs to put the town’s history on display. But a significant recent addition to the museum may be found out of view behind a desk in the museum office.
I love it when Jesus is walking through the temple one day and some people gathered around ask him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly!”
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- Trial in death of Milton Sawyer gets underway with opening arguments
- Currituck man sentenced to more than 200 years for child sex offenses
- Police seeking 2 men who fired AR-15 rifle, handgun in downtown
- City paid $5.5K for homeless worker's hotel stay
- Medical Examiner: Milton Sawyer died as result of asphyxia
- Chowan Sheriff investigating after unidentified body found
- Perquimans sheriff arrests EC woman on heroin possession, other charges
- Police arrest 2 juveniles, one with high-powered rifle
- Remembering Julie: Man faces felonies in collision that killed girl, 11
- No jackpot, but EC Powerball player wins $1M
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Within his first week back at school after a year and a half, 7-year-old Ben Medlin was exposed to a classmate with COVID-19, and he was sent home, along with 7,000 other students in the district, for 14 days of quarantine.
LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A memorial service will be held Friday for Jim Snyder Jr., an attorney, author and conservative candidate for statewide office in North Carolina.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Rep. Verla Insko, the longest-serving House Democrat currently in the chamber, announced on Wednesday she won't seek reelection next year.
Amazon wants to hire 125,000 delivery and warehouse workers and said Tuesday that it is paying new hires an average of $18 an hour in a tight job market as more people shop online.
Fearing his parents wouldn’t approve of his decision to get a COVID-19 vaccine but needing their signature, Andrew signed up for the appointment in secret, and then sprang it on them at the last minute.
SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge ordered Apple to dismantle a lucrative part of the competitive barricade guarding its closely run iPhone app store, but rejected allegations that the company has been running an illegal monopoly that stifles competition and innovation.
MULLINS, S.C. (AP) — When the last mourners departed and funeral director Shawn Troy was left among the headstones, he wept alone.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Country singer Brett Eldredge has had another encounter with wildlife, this one involving a bear at a North Carolina home.
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National & World AP Stories
ACANDI, Colombia (AP) — It was 5 a.m. and in dozens of small tents around 500 migrants began showing signs of life, rising, packing their bags and preparing to cross the Darien Gap, the thick jungle teeming with snakes, bandits and treacherous rivers that separates Colombia from Panama.
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — New Zealand abandoned its cricket tour of Pakistan on Friday over security concerns that mystified the hosts, just before the Black Caps’ first scheduled match in Pakistan in 18 years.
TORONTO (AP) — The man who could oust Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from power advertised himself a year ago as a “true-blue conservative.” He became Conservative Party leader with a pledge to “take back Canada” - and almost immediately started working to modernize the party by pushing it to…
MOSCOW (AP) — An app created by allies of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny disappeared from Apple and Google stores on Friday as polls opened across Russia for three days of voting in a parliamentary election.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic teams were urged Friday by the IOC to request more Chinese vaccines ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, which will be held in the country where the coronavirus outbreak started.
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — The first Black police chief in Waterloo, Iowa, is facing intense opposition from some current and former officers as he works with city leaders to reform the department, including the removal of its longtime insignia that resembles a Ku Klux Klan dragon.
TOKYO (AP) — The race is on for the next Japanese prime minister.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday rejected Chinese criticism of Australia's new nuclear submarine alliance with the United States and said he doesn’t mind that President Joe Biden might have forgotten his name.
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