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April 26, 2016
It’s a busy week for East Carolina University, which in the next four days will wrap up spring classes, start final exams, celebrate Founders Day and, hopefully, find out the name of its new chancellor.
Classes end today. Wednesday will serve as a reading day before exams...
April 26, 2016
The head of Indiana’s second-largest airport will be taking flight to North Carolina to become executive director of the Pitt-Greenville Airport.
The Pitt-Greenville Airport Authority on Monday announced that Betty Stansbury, airport director at Purdue University Airport, was...
April 26, 2016
A Holocaust survivor who was imprisoned at Auschwitz will speak to students and community members at The Oakwood School on Wednesday.
Abe Piasek will speak from 1:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. in the Monk Gymnasium, 4000 MacGregor Downs Road. It is free and open to the public....
April 26, 2016
Civil rights groups are planning a protest on Wednesday of a decision to delay the release of a March 17 video that showed group beating on East Carolina University’s campus.
The assault seriously injured a 26-year-old black man and resulted in five arrests with one more anticipated,...
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April 26, 2016
Authorities arrested a Rocky Mount woman early this morning in connection with a Sunday hit-and-run that killed a Farmville woman.
Ashley Dawn Hardison, 24, allegedly was driving a F-150 pickup about 12:30 a.m. Sunday on U.S. 258 near Stantonsburg Road, just outside of Farmville, when she...
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April 26, 2016 - 15 minutes ago
A man who allegedly strangled his father then barricaded himself in the house with a gun, resulting in an hours-long standoff with law enforcement, was jailed Monday on felony charges.
The Pitt County Sheriff’s Office responded about 1:40 p.m. to 6168 U.S. 13, outside Farmville near...
April 26, 2016
A 16-year-old Central Farmville High School student is undergoing treatment for bone cancer, and the Chick-fil-A at the Greenville Mall wants to help her and her family.
Tonight between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. the restaurant will donate 15 percent of all proceeds to her family to help pay for...
April 26, 2016
Several members of the Greenville City Council said authorizing a proposed pay increase for city employees would be premature before they have more accurate numbers for next year’s budget.
The proposed pay increase was discussed Monday during a joint Greenville City...
April 26, 2016
D.H. Conley baseball coach Jason Mills has been waiting all year for his team's hitting to catch up to its dominant pitching.
If Monday's performance against C.B. Aycock was any indication, the Vikings might be hitting their stride at just the right time.
Conley pounded out 11 hits...
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April 25, 2016
RALEIGH — Unlike the major leagues, there is no video replay used in college baseball to overturn or challenge calls.
At Doak Field on Monday night with East Carolina playing its fourth game in three days and going for a season sweep over rival N.C. State, it was not video replay...
April 24, 2016
After plowing through N.C. State with three home runs at Clark-LeClair Stadium on Tuesday night, precise pitching and timely hitting was needed by East Carolina baseball to outlast Connecticut at Clark-LeClair during the weekend in a key American Athletic Conference series.
On Sunday, it...
April 24, 2016
Oh, NASCAR. I love you.
I do. I really do. I’ve loved you ever since I can remember. My mom tells a great story about my grandparents visiting during a race when I was 2 years old. I was sitting on my dad’s knee, completely fixed on the television.
My grandmother walked...
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April 26, 2016
The N.C. General Assembly’s legislative session that began Monday offers lawmakers an opportunity to mitigate damage done by House Bill 2, enacted March 23 to prevent a Charlotte ordinance from protecting LGBT people from discrimination in housing and public accommodations....
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April 26, 2016
The N.C. General Assembly convenes this week and some very detrimental actions could take place.
An action by the Environmental Review Commission will make it against the law for Health and Human Services to notify well owners that their water is contaminated with, in this case,...
April 26, 2016
The N.C. General Assembly legislative session convened this week. Some very detrimental actions are in the works.
There is another omnibus energy bill, like last year’s Regulatory Reform Act. This year it's the Energy Modernization Act, since “modernization” sounds...
April 26, 2016
Note: I submitted this yesterday, 4/20, and spoke with Michael Abramowitz on the phone. I made a mistake in the letter by treating both these issues as if they were at the state level. One is, but the other is at the federal level. Please correct yesterday's submission...
April 26, 2016
Pitt County Schools
Report cards will be issued Monday for high school students.
Parents for Public Schools will offer middle school and high school tours this week. Registration is required. Call 758-1604, ext. 201 or email kdibble@ppspittcounty.org. The schedule...
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April 26, 2016
Touch-A-Truck
The sixth annual Touch-A-Truck event benefiting the Junior Women’s Association of Greenville will be held from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot area between the Greenville Mall and Yadkin Bank. The event will feature more than 40 types of trucks, including...
April 26, 2016
Two local seniors are among 67 students selected as Morehead-Cain Scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
J.H. Rose High School students Reuben Varghese Chemmanam and Tyla Briana Gomez are among 35 students from North Carolina, 24 scholars from 20 different states and...
April 26, 2016
Arendell Parrott Academy was recently named runner-up in the Eastern Regional Quiz Bowl.
Parrott's Quiz Bowl team traveled to Thomasville earlier this month to compete against seven other regional teams in the event.
Parrott’s team included captain Bryant Lee Cox, Joseph John,...
April 24, 2016
Michigan’s Gov. Rick Snyder is tackling Flint’s water crisis with a few plastic jugs and a can-drink attitude.
Snyder, who is facing a crisis of his own via angry state voters, will drink Flint water at home and at work for at least a month to show to residents it is safe with...
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