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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.
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Attorney General Josh Stein and Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler urged U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to make farmers eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. The PSLF program forgives the remaining loan balance of a Federal Direct Loan borrower who wor…
Someone who played the Powerball lottery game in Elizabeth City didn't win the $457 million jackpot in Wednesday's drawing but they are $1 million richer this 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.
CURRITUCK — A coalition of more than 20 media companies, including The Daily Advance, is waiting to hear if a court will release the law enforcement video footage of Andrew Brown Jr.’s shooting death by three Pasquotank sheriff’s deputies in April following a court session earlier this week.
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Almost two dozen speakers voiced their views about the state’s upcoming redistricting of congressional and legislative districts to state lawmakers during a public hearing in Elizabeth City Tuesday evening.
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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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The First Flight boys soccer team defeated Northeastern 5-0 Monday evening at Northeastern High School in Elizabeth City.
EDENTON — The Chowan County community finally had a home football game to watch Friday night at John A. Holmes.
CAMDEN — Strike up the band, let the drums roll, and the trumpets roar!
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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.
This is what “school choice” looks like.
Let's be clear. No one has to get the vaccine. As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states: "The federal government does not mandate (require) vaccination for people."
As a citizen of Camden County, this letter is in response to your story in the Aug. 27 edition, “Camden manager to retire in December.”
I’m old enough to remember when the Republican Party stood for limited government — when Ronald Reagan thundered “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.”
It has been 18 months since the first COVID-19 lockdowns in March 2020. Have we flattened the damn curve yet? Recall that it was supposed to be just a few weeks of sacrifice before our lives could go back to normal.
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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!”
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.” — Psalm 33:12
Three-year-old Harper Fightmaster is surrounded by a loving family, but on Sept. 18 she will get some jumbo-sized attention.
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- Currituck man sentenced to more than 200 years for child sex offenses
- Trial in death of Milton Sawyer gets underway with opening arguments
- Police seeking 2 men who fired AR-15 rifle, handgun in downtown
- City paid $5.5K for homeless worker's hotel stay
- Chowan Sheriff investigating after unidentified body found
- Remembering Julie: Man faces felonies in collision that killed girl, 11
- Perquimans sheriff arrests EC woman on heroin possession, other charges
- Medical Examiner: Milton Sawyer died as result of asphyxia
- Police arrest 2 juveniles, one with high-powered rifle
- Police probe after gunfire damages school windows
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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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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyer Alex Murdaugh surrendered Thursday to face insurance fraud and other charges after state police said he arranged to have himself shot in the head so that his son would get a $10 million life insurance payout. The shooter only grazed him.
Another day of choppy trading on Wall Street left stocks mostly lower, cutting into the major indexes' gains for the week.
MOSCOW (AP) — After a few weeks of desultory campaigning but months of relentless official moves to shut down significant opposition, Russia began three days of voting early Friday in a parliamentary election that is unlikely to change the country’s political complexion.
HOUSTON — Two dozen Republican attorneys general are warning the White House of impending legal action if a proposed coronavirus vaccine requirement for as many as 100 million Americans goes into effect.
THREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — Multiple forest fires on Thursday were threatening groves of gigantic sequoias in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains that are home to some of the world's largest trees.
BERLIN (AP) — A 16-year-old boy was detained Thursday in connection with a possible plan for an Islamic extremist attack on a synagogue in the German city of Hagen, authorities said.
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.
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Sikh businessman Balbir Singh Sodhi was helping plant a flower bed at his Arizona gas station when he was shot dead by a man seeking to avenge 9/11. Mistaken for an Arab Muslim because of his turban and beard, Sodhi was the first person to die in a wave of bias crimes unle…
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