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It’s time to cue “Pomp and Circumstance” as the high school graduation season gets underway in the Albemarle.
Elizabeth City's 4th Ward voters who haven't already voted early will have five candidates to choose from when they go to the polls Tuesday to fill two City Council seats.
Elizabeth City police are investigating after they say four people, two of them juveniles, suffered gunshot wounds in the city Sunday evening.
Two years and several postponements later, Arts of the Albemarle’s Center Players’ production of “The Little Mermaid Jr.” has finally arrived.
Keith Parker says he plans to make the same commitment as superintendent of schools that he made when he became a teacher — to make a difference in the world by having a positive influence on students.
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CAMDEN — The last time the Camden Lady Bruins and John A. Holmes Lady Aces softball teams had met each other, Camden suffered its only conference loss of the season.
The 2022 NCHSAA state playoff brackets for girls soccer were released Friday afternoon and multiple teams in the Daily Advance’s coverage area will be playing this upcoming week.
HERTFORD — As most every other team that played Thursday in the NCHSAA playoffs were in second round action, the Perquimans softball team finally was able to host its first round game against No. 19 Cape Hatteras.
HERTFORD — Perquimans left-hander Tanner Thach pitched a masterpiece Thursday night. Jimmy “Catfish” Hunter would have loved it. The Pirate senior was nearly flawless, going the full seven innings, striking out 18 batters, giving up only two hits and one base on balls.
The Mid-Atlantic Christian baseball team will be playing in the 2022 USCAA Small College World Series next week.
Opinion
Sometimes it seems an exhausting lifetime ago when Donald Trump started down his political path. I wasn’t confident he was conservative like I am. I wasn’t confident he was pro-life. I wasn’t sure he valued the Second Amendment and religious freedom. I wasn’t sure he could measure up to Rona…
The Daily Advance is not going to make any candidate endorsements in today’s edition, but that’s not to say we don’t have opinions about the kinds of candidates residents should vote for in Tuesday’s federal, state, county and municipal elections.
OK, so we’re voting. The finances of the city are in a mess and there is lots of blame to spread around. Who was minding the store? one might ask.
Over the last few years, the Marxist insurrection has been attacking America from every direction. Attacks on our founding, on police and justice, on capitalism, on the constitution and our liberty have come viciously and often.
The leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion has spurred political violence. Last week, two Molotov cocktails were tossed at the building housing the offices of the Oregon Right to Life Organization near Salem, Oregon. Fortunately, there was little damage.
Anyone who questions the divinity of Caesar thereby rejects Christ.
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“And they said to me, ‘The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.’ So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many d…
I am so blessed to have so many godly mothers in my congregation. I do not look around the sanctuary and think about one or two; I think about a multitude. These incredible women have taught me a plethora of lessons about what makes a godly mom.
It’s storm season, the time of year to get prepared in case of a hurricane, storm or tornado. Storm season can start in June and last as late as November.
As a D.C. Beltway power player, the late Charles W. Colson worked with a “Thank God it’s Monday” attitude that meant his colleagues always knew they could contact him about hot topics and decisions.
Editor’s note: This story is the final installment in a four-part series on the history of the Pasquotank Plank House, its travels and final return to Perquimans County.
Howdy partners! Greetings from a baby boomer who grew up watching the 30-minute episodes of cowboy television shows. Did you know there were 16 top-rated western TV shows in late the 1950s into the early 1960s?
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's winning streak in U.S. Senate primaries is on the line Tuesday as voters in five states cast their ballots in midterm elections.
WILSON, N.C. (AP) — Wilson County’s only commercial hemp grower says if medical marijuana becomes legal in North Carolina, he will be a good candidate to grow it with the knowledge he has gained.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — This year's retirements of two veteran Democratic congressmen in North Carolina have opened the way for robust primaries within their party as Democrats, Republicans or both hold contests Tuesday in all but one of the state's 14 U.S. House districts.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Four pairs of Republican incumbents face off Tuesday in the North Carolina General Assembly primaries, their confrontations the result of redistricting in rural areas that have lagged other parts of the state in population growth.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking the first steps to release $45 billion to ensure that every U.S. resident has access to high-speed internet by roughly 2028, inviting governors and other leaders on Friday to start the application process.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn's prominent role as the youngest pro-Donald Trump agitator in Congress can rub people on the right and the left the wrong way in his North Carolina district.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Erin Houchin braced for the worst when a mysterious group started buying television ads last month in her highly competitive southern Indiana congressional race.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Erin Houchin braced for the worst when a mysterious, well-financed group started buying television ads last month in her highly competitive southern Indiana congressional race.
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National & World AP Stories
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden on Monday decided to join neighboring Finland in seeking NATO membership, ending more than two centuries of military nonalignment in a historic shift prompted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman accused of massacring 10 Black people in a racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket planned to keep on killing if he had escaped the scene, the police commissioner said Monday, as the possibility of federal hate crime or domestic terror charges loomed.
PARIS (AP) — Centrist politician Elisabeth Borne was appointed France’s new prime minister on Monday, becoming only the second woman in history to hold the post.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks edged higher on Wall Street Monday, but trading remains choppy as the market comes off six straight weeks of declines.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The NCAA waited nearly a year to issue a warning that there are still rules to follow now that college athletes can earn money off their fame, sparking speculation that a crackdown could be coming for schools and boosters that break them.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Europe pushed to toughen its response Monday to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, with Sweden joining Finland in deciding to seek NATO membership and European Union officials working to rescue proposed sanctions on Russian oil.
LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. (AP) — A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church, killing one person and wounding five older people before a pastor hit the gunman on the head with a chair and parishioners hog-tied him with electrical cords.
A total lunar eclipse provided a spectacular celestial show as it unfolded Sunday night into early Monday in the Americas.
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