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Pasquotank County is drawing praise from a statewide voter advocacy group for becoming the first county in North Carolina to adopt a resolution supporting a fair redistricting process.
According to Elizabeth City State University Chancellor Karrie Dixon, ECSU has 14 brand-new ambassadors for the campus.
The Small Business Technology Development Center wants to help minority-owned subcontractors prepare and submit bids for construction work on Sentara Healthcare’s new hospital.
CURRITUCK — A staffing shortage on the N.C. Ferry Division’s Hatteras-to-Ocracoke run will again suspend operations on the Currituck-to-Knotts Island ferry for a few days.
The region’s public health director said Friday that COVID-19 infections are again rising as both the number of new cases and active cases rose in the eight counties for the second straight week.
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One of the top stories across news stations recently has been the spread of wildfires in the west and the haze through the air spreading entirely across the United States.
MURFREESBORO — The Chowan football program and head coach Mark Hall announced Monday the addition of Matthew Finnin, Brian Frierson, and Jairus Marlow to the staff.
EDENTON — The Steamers bounced back from Thursday’s loss to Greenbrier with a 13-1 over the Tarboro River Bandits on Saturday.
TARBORO — Edenton’s Josh Pernetti (San Joaquin Delta College) blasted a home run to center field in the first-ever Premier Collegiate League Home Run Derby at Tarboro Municipal Stadium.
After the initial MLB All-Star Game rosters were released, there was a distinct disappointment in Northern California felt all the way in Edenton.
I’m not one to recycle columns but I knew what I wanted to cover this week and then remembered I had written about it a few years ago.
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The author of the letter to the editor in your June 26th edition was right on — all lives matter. Also, if persons sought by law enforcement would comply with police's request, they would not be shot. When you point any kind of weapon at the police they will have to respond to save their own lives.
Most students attend colleges or universities primarily to acquire the knowledge, skills, and credentials required to get a rewarding job.
It’s clear how the two political parties want to define the debate in next year’s elections, in North Carolina and nationally. Republicans want to argue about race and culture. Democrats want to argue that government can work and can help people.
On Wednesday March 17 — St. Patrick’s Day — North Carolina voters were led to believe that the people they elected to the state House of Representatives voted 119-0, approving legislation making it easier for applied behavior analysis therapists to practice in North Carolina. It is a therapy that has been shown to be particularly effective for children with autism.
Conservatives accept that problems are just a part of life. More accurately, they accept that other people's problems are just a part of life. Their own problems are of course a sign that some evil conspiracy or another is at work.
I'm writing in response to two recent stories: "ECSU eyes building skybridge first," and "Edenton eyes system for detecting gunshots," both published in your July 16 edition.
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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.
Editor’s note: The following story is part of a recurring series on students who’ve attended College of The Albemarle.
Family meals: Do they really matter?
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Another major North Carolina hospital system is preparing to 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.
BELMONT, N.C. (AP) — Brenda Williams remembers moving into the House of Mercy in Belmont nearly nine years ago and immediately wanting to leave. She had lived in her own apartment in Gastonia for 11 years and was used to the life she had there.
MARSHALL, N.C. (AP) — Madison County resident William D. Auman worked 30 years of trial practice, including 10 death penalty cases and roughly 70 murder cases, but maybe no case was as memorable as the Gahagan homicides.
Landscaping was hardly his lifelong dream.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Healthcare Association announced on Thursday that several of the state's largest hospital systems will require employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine in order to continue working at their facilities.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said on Thursday that he wants to participate in three televised debates ahead of the 2022 primaries, including one in late fall and two early next year.
NEW YORK (AP) — Time is finally on their side.
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National & World AP Stories
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea exchanged messages Tuesday in communication channels that have been dormant for more than a year and agreed to improve ties — positive steps but ones that still leave any resumption of stalled negotiations to rid the North of its nuclear weapon…
JERUSALEM (AP) — Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused the Israeli military of carrying out attacks that “apparently amount to war crimes” during an 11-day war in May against the Hamas militant group.
CANTON, Ga. (AP) — A man accused of killing eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, at Atlanta-area massage businesses pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday in four of the killings and was handed four sentences of life without parole.
TOKYO (AP) — When Olympic diver Tom Daley announced in 2013 that he was dating a man and “couldn't be happier,” his coming out was an act of courage that, with its rarity, also exposed how the top echelons of sport weren't seen as a safe space by the vast majority of LGBTQ athletes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was expected to backpedal Tuesday on its masking guidelines and recommend that even vaccinated people wear masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the coronavirus is surging, a federal official said.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — One of the largest public school districts in Kansas plans to require elementary students to wear masks this fall.
TOKYO (AP) — Simone Biles arrived in Tokyo as the star of the U.S. Olympic movement and perhaps the Games themselves. She convinced herself she was prepared for the pressure. That she was ready to carry the burden of outsized expectations.
TOKYO (AP) — Angelina Melnikova, a celebrated gymnast from Russia, was gliding around the parallel bars when breaking news started rocketing around the world: Her competitor, American superstar Simone Biles, was scratched from the competition.
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