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Thursday, January 28, 2021
Area officials were busily preparing Wednesday for arrival of the region’s first snowstorm of the year.
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
State and local law enforcement agencies, relying on advanced DNA testing and analysis offered by a Virginia company, have arrested and charged a Winston-Salem man in connection with a five-year-old murder in Pasquotank County.
All students in Pasquotank, Currituck, Camden, Perquimans and Chowan will get a snow day Thursday.
The region's health department has postponed five scheduled COVID vaccine clinics set for Thursday, citing the possibility of icy roads following tonight's expected snowfall.
The region's emergency management director said he plans to recommend that city and county officials delay the opening of schools and city and county offices Thursday because of the threat of winter conditions Wednesday into Thursday.
No timeline or process has yet been established for naming the next superintendent of the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools after Superintendent Catherine Edmonds departs March 1.
In our area, we have a lure that not a lot of striper fishermen talk about but everyone in the know has.
The high school boys’ soccer season is expected to begin this week.
The North Carolina Volleyball Coaches Association released the players who were selected to the all-Region high school teams on Monday.
Every year people all over the world notify the authorities of sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, UFO’s as we like to refer to them.
Currituck County, First Flight, Northeastern and Pasquotank County high schools competed in the Northeastern Coastal Conference swimming championship meet Saturday at Albemarle Family YMCA in Elizabeth City.
The Mid-Atlantic Christian men's basketball team defeated Blue Lights College 101-92 in overtime Saturday afternoon to remain undefeated on the season.
Opinion
Thursday, January 28, 2021
On Wednesday afternoon, shortly after Joe Biden was inaugurated as president, Vice President Kamala Harris swore in three new members of the U.S. Senate, including the two Democratic winners of the recent special election in Georgia. For the first time in a decade, Democrats occupied the White House and controlled the U.S. House and Senate.
I think we owe a debt of gratitude to Battle Betts, director of Albemarle Regional Health Services, and his staff for all the work they’ve done to keep the region informed about the coronavirus and to get out the vaccine to control it.
It's well-known that Evangelicals are very loyal to Donald Trump. As I see it, Franklin Graham and his troops are less authentic followers of Christ than they are followers of the former president.
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Almost 11 months to the day after Sen. Richard Burr made a series of controversial stock transactions raising questions of potential inappropriate use of insider information — and hours before Donald Trump’s term as president was ending — the FBI said it was closing an investigation into the matter without any charges.
Almost 11 months to the day after Sen. Richard Burr made a series of controversial stock transactions raising questions of potential inappropriate use of insider information — and hours before Donald Trump’s term as president was ending — the FBI said it was closing an investigation into the matter without any charges.
Voice of America can’t have it both ways.
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Saturday, January 23, 2021
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for…
Editor’s note: The following is a condensed version of a recent sermon by Towne South Church of Christ Lead Minister Brad Giffin.
A word used a lot by Christians is “repentance,” but I wonder what that really means to us.
Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools officials have transferred a significant portion of state coronavirus relief funds to pay for chromebooks, iPads, classroom supplies and other costs associated with educating students amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
A new Museum of the Albemarle exhibit pays homage to an occupation that played a key role in the history of northeastern North Carolina.
The saying, “Christmas comes but once a year” doesn’t apply to the small village of Rodanthe on Hatteras Island. This tiny hamlet rings in the holiday twice: first with the traditional Christmas celebration on Dec. 25, and again on Jan. 6, known as Old Christmas.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities on Thursday detained several allies of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and issued warnings to social media giants after tens of thousands of people took to the streets in over 100 Russian cities last weekend to demand his release.
WUHAN, China (AP) — A World Health Organization team emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
BERLIN (AP) — A far-right extremist in Germany was convicted Thursday and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a regional politician in a brazen killing that shocked the country.
LES SABLES-D'OLONNE, France (AP) — French sailor Yannick Bestaven won the Vendee Globe solo round-the-world race after more than 80 days and an unusually close final few hours to determine the winner on Thursday.
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