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An Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools student recently was suspended and sent home for three days for not fully complying with the district's face mask mandate, the district's interim superintendent said.
Telephonics is hoping to double its workforce at its manufacturing facility in the Pasquotank Commerce Park by the end of the year.
A man authorities say has ties to an Elizabeth City street gang has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for illegal possession of a firearm.
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Three graduates of Elizabeth City State University talked to current students Thursday afternoon about how the university prepared them for their careers and lives.
An Elizabeth City man is facing a charge of felony fleeing to elude arrest, and a host of other charges in connection with a two-vehicle accident that involved a loaded Camden County school bus Wednesday.
Ralph Clark said he has had a busy three days since starting as the Interim City Manager on Monday.
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CAMDEN — The Camden County High School varsity volleyball team has been the dominant team in region during the fall 2021 high school volleyball season.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association released volleyball state playoff brackets Thursday.
Northeastern defeats East Carteret in NCHSAA women's tennis dual team playoffs | High School Roundup
NEWPORT — The Northeastern High School girls tennis team defeated East Carteret 8-1 in the first round of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 2A women’s tennis dual team state playoffs Wednesday.
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Northeastern High School completed renovations to its high school gymnasium in September.
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Not since 1942, when women flooded into the workplace in support of the war effort, have we seen a worker revolution such as we are experiencing now. A just-released Duke Fuqua School of Business global survey of chief financial officers reports job openings are at a 20-year high. Total employment today is 5 million below the pre-pandemic peak. How can this be explained in a growing economy?
Despite being a politician all his life, and never having worked in a blue-collar job, President Joe Biden declared, “I’m a union man,” when he announced his presidential campaign at a Teamsters union hall in Pittsburgh in April 2019.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forth shows of bravery and dedication from nurses, doctors and other health-care workers. In a less dramatic way, other essential workers, from supermarket clerks to bus drivers, have stepped up to serve the public at risk to themselves.
History books tell us the American Civil War started when the first shots were fired at South Carolina’s Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861.
Congratulations to Elizabeth City Public Safety Director and acting City Manager Eddie Buffaloe Jr. on his appointment by Gov. Roy cooper to his cabinet as the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety. The DPS secretary serves as the sole representative on the governor’s cabinet for stat…
We’ve all heard the notion, “There are two sides to every story.”
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CAMDEN — Like many events in 2020, the Holly Days Festival of Gifts was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Albemarle Area United Way next month will honor a Bertie County psychiatrist whose $557,000 legacy gift helped the organization start its first-ever endowment fund.
I used to belong to the Science Fiction book club in the 1960s. One of the selections was a novel by Frank Herbert titled “Dune.” I was gobsmacked with its epic storytelling.
We all keep hearing about “The Big Lie” these days, and while I am not brave or stupid enough to step into the quagmire, I find myself thinking about the tension between lies and truth in our lives. (I do have an opinion, but to share it would lose one-half of you or the other!)
Homecoming 2021-Reunited officially got underway Sunday with the crowning of Diamond Rawlinson as Ms. ECSU and Joshua Cox as Mr. ECSU.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican legislative leaders sent another negotiating offer to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday as top government officials still attempt to enact a long-overdue two year budget.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina’s flagship public university can continue to consider race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions, rebuffing a conservative group's argument that affirmative action disadvantages white and Asian students.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two longtime Democratic congressmen with a combined six decades of experience announced Monday that they plan to retire at the end of their terms, another worrying sign for the party's uphill climb to keep control of the House in next year's midterm elections.
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.
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:
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Earlier this year, an insistent cry arose from business leaders and Republican governors: Cut off a $300-a-week federal supplement for unemployed Americans. Many people, they argued, would then come off the sidelines and take the millions of jobs that employers were despe…
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on the set of a Western and killed the cinematographer in what the actor Friday called a “tragic accident.” The director of the movie was wounded, and authorities were investigating.
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:
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopian military airstrikes on Friday forced a United Nations humanitarian flight to abandon its landing in the capital of the country’s Tigray region, and a government spokesman said authorities were aware of the inbound flight. It appeared to be a sharp escalation i…
NEW YORK (AP) — Millionaire real estate scion Robert Durst has been charged with murder in the death of his first wife, Kathie Durst, nearly four decades after she disappeared and just days after he was sentenced to life in prison in California for killing a confidante who helped him cover u…
The spiritual leader of the world’s 200 million Eastern Orthodox Christians brings an agenda spanning religious, political and environmental issues to a 12-day U.S. visit beginning Saturday that includes a meeting with President Joe Biden and various ceremonial and interfaith gatherings.
It was the first time in decades that she’d seen his glow.
Millions more Americans just became eligible for COVID-19 boosters, but figuring out who's eligible and when can be confusing. And adding to the challenge is that this time around, people can choose a different brand of vaccine for that extra dose.
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