News Stories
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Food Bank of the Albemarle plans to reopen Wednesday after being closed over the past week due to COVID-19.
Elizabeth City Police
Hungry residents walking through the front door at Hoppin’ Johnz may need time to shake off the cold. When they sit down at their table in the heated outdoor dining area, they may have to shake off their coats.
HERTFORD — Seventy-five Hertford residents were able to return to their homes Monday evening roughly four hours after being evacuated because of a natural gas leak.
Because state officials never agreed to North Carolina’s biennium budget for 2019-21, millions of dollars earmarked for Elizabeth City State University are now gone, state Sen. Bob Steinburg says.
Ninety-one more Albemarle residents were unemployed in November than in October, increasing the five-county region’s jobless rate by two-tenths of a percent to 5.4%.
Three nights per week, local bowlers enter the doors of Albemarle Lanes with one thing on their minds; rolling that elusive 300 game.
CROATAN — The Currituck County and First Flight cross country teams competed in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Class 2A East Regional Saturday at Croatan High School.
A determined "band of sisters," the Perquimans County High School volleyball team, has kept their focus through all the distractions that have occurred during the 2020-21 campaign, and achieved a remarkable season.
In the winter when you want to catch a largemouth you have a handful of lures you always go to.
Mike Sweeney is the fishing columnist for The Daily Advance.
CAMDEN — The Camden County Bruins volleyball team fell to the Neuse Charter Cougars by a score of 3-2 Thursday night in the second round of the NCHSAA Class 1A state playoffs at Camden County High School.
Opinion
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
I have strong opinions — but not about how to perform brain surgery, write a smart-phone app, design a golf course, or produce a hip-hop album. Perhaps you do have a strong view about one of these, but almost certainly not about all four.
Members of Congress as well as Vice President Mike Pence are not paranoid — “they” really are coming after them. But who are “they?” Nearly half of the nation still supports Trump, and perhaps half of them are ardent, and perhaps half of the ardent are militant. Who knows?
Thousands of our fellow Americans in every state worked tirelessly for months to ensure a safe, secure and fair election on Nov. 3. At every level, from county vote tabulating sites to election commissions certifying results, representatives from both major parties were present, oversaw and …
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Democrats started trying to remove President Donald Trump from office before he entered office. Now they are proposing to remove him from office after he leaves office.
Inauguration Day will soon be upon us, and it can’t come soon enough for millions of Americans.
“There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,” said Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, in announcing she would vote to impeach President Trump.
Features
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Museum of the Albemarle’s collection contains more than 35,000 dimensional artifacts. These range in size from a 29-foot shad boat to clay beads about a quarter-inch in diameter. In most cases they belonged to people who lived in the region from 12,000 B.C.E. to 2000 A.D. We have an extensiv…
Twenty Elizabeth City State University students will have an opportunity to apply for summer 2021 internships thanks to State Employees’ Credit Union’s decision to renew its $100,000 grant to the university.
The following is a condensed version of a sermon delivered last Sunday by the Rev. Carroll Bundy, pastor of New Hope United Methodist Church.
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fail for it had been founded on the rock.” — Matthe…
The Christian faith is based on God’s promises that good will prevail, justice will be served, and evil will be overcome. That is all well and good, but our problem is that we have not yet seen that happen.
Friday, January 15, 2021
After a down year for weddings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mollie White is looking for nuptials to bounce back in 2021.
State AP Stories
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Police in a North Carolina city issued a warning on Tuesday for a dangerous batch of what’s believed to be fentanyl after five suspected overdose deaths in a 48-hour period.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has vaccinated 450,000 people against COVID-19 as the state ramps up its vaccination efforts, the state’s top health official said Tuesday.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two North Carolina legislators who announced this week they had tested positive for COVID-19 participated in the same duck-hunting trip with other elected officials last week.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — These North Carolina lotteries were drawn Tuesday:
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the North Carolina Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina teenager taken to a hospital by his mother for help with a mental health crisis was hit with a stun gun, beaten and body slammed by hospital personnel and sheriff’s deputies, then left bleeding and handcuffed outside, according to a lawsuit.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Bank of America’s fourth-quarter profits fell 18% from a year ago, as lower interest rates weighed down its results. However the bank was able to release more than $800 million from its credit reserves, a sign that it sees the U.S. economy improving in the coming months.
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National & World AP Stories
ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte squeaked through a crucial Senate confidence vote Tuesday night, allowing him to keep his wobbly coalition afloat but failing to secure the reliable support needed from lawmakers to help him effectively govern the country with its pandemic-pummeled …
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — U.S. Rep. David Kustoff of Tennessee is under self-quarantine after coming into close contact with someone who tested positive for the new coronavirus.
As President Donald Trump entered the final year of his term last January, the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19. Not to worry, Trump insisted, his administration had the virus “totally under control.”
ATLANTA (AP) — As Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in Wednesday as the nation’s 46th president, Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters still believe Biden was not legitimately elected after Trump continues to argue the election was stolen.
NEW YORK (AP) — The founder and CEO of MyPillow, who amplified President Donald Trump's claims of election fraud, said a backlash against his company has begun after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol this month.
Like so much this past year, the inaugural celebration will be like no other: pared down, distanced, much of it virtual. But for actor Christopher Jackson — the original George Washington in Broadway's “Hamilton" — performing in a virtual “ball” is a way of participating in an essential rite…
Wall Street kicked off a holiday-shortened week with broad gains for stocks Tuesday, as the market recovered most of its losses from last week.
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Army soldier was arrested Tuesday in Georgia on terrorism charges after he spoke online about plots to blow up New York City's 9/11 Memorial and other landmarks and attack U.S. soldiers in the Middle East, authorities said Tuesday.
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