The congressman representing North Carolina’s 1st District said Greenville and Pitt County will remain essential to constituents as a health care and job hub even after new lines place it entirely in the 3rd District next year.
A woman was charged by both Pitt County and Greenville authorities after she was found driving a truck that was reported stolen earlier in the day.
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The Greenville Police Department on Wednesday arrested three people they said broke into an ATM on Arlington Boulevard and led law enforcement on a chase that ended near Wilson.
Monday’s joint meeting of the Greenville City Council and GUC Board of Commissioners drew several residents opposed to allowing cryptocurrency mining in the community.
A cardiac arrest survivor visited Greenville this week to promote CPR and automated defibrillators and thank the first responders who helped give him his life back more than 18 months ago.
Greenville City Council and GUC’s Board of Commissioners unanimously agreed to a 4 percent pay raise for employees in the new fiscal year starting July 1.
A special filing period will open Monday for candidates for the Pitt County Board of Education’s District 1 seat.
Friday will begin a big weekend for high school musicals with performers taking the stage at three Pitt County schools.
Pitt County will hold a pair of public input sessions today to help secure grant funds for the development of the Office Park Recreation Complex and the Lake Glenwood Public Park.
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Early in-person voting has started across North Carolina for next month’s runoff elections, including one congressional and two statewide primary contests. Early voting sites opened in all 100 counties on Thursday and will be available through May 11. The runoff election day is May 14. Voters in part are choosing this fall’s Republican nominees for lieutenant governor, state auditor and the 13th Congressional District seat. These runoffs are happening because the candidate with the most votes in the March primary failed to get over 30% of the vote. There are also runoff elections for local seats in Orange and Gaston counties.
Planned Parenthood affiliated groups have announced a $10 million voter engagement campaign in North Carolina for the 2024 election. Organizers said in a Thursday news conference that the money will go toward things like canvassing, mailers and digital ads. The funding comes as abortion-rights advocates seek to end a Republican supermajority at the General Assembly that approved new restrictions last year and to prevent the election of anti-abortion gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson. Planned Parenthood Votes spokesperson Emily Thompson says the amount marks the largest campaign investment ever made by Planned Parenthood entities in North Carolina.
The North Carolina General Assembly has returned to work six months after it wrapped up a landmark session in 2023, and quickly received a budget proposal from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. The House and Senate gaveled in their floor meetings Wednesday after Cooper presented his adjustments to the second year of the two-year budget. He wants the Republican-dominated legislature to halt expansion of the state's private-school voucher program and prevent the highest wage earners from benefitting fully from an upcoming income tax cut. Republicans are unlikely to do either when they draw up their own spending plan in the coming week. They hold narrow veto-proof majorities.
The North Carolina General Assembly has returned to work six months after it wrapped up a landmark session in 2023, and quickly received a budget proposal from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. The House and Senate gaveled in their floor meetings Wednesday after Cooper presented his adjustments to the second year of the two-year budget. He wants the Republican-dominated legislature to halt expansion of the state's private-school voucher program and prevent the highest wage earners from benefitting fully from an upcoming income tax cut. Republicans are unlikely to do either when they draw up their own spending plan in the coming week. They hold narrow veto-proof majorities.
An effort to limit diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is gaining momentum in state capitals and college campuses. Tennessee became the latest state to act this week as the Republican governor signed a law prohibiting banks from considering a customer's participation in DEI training. That came shortly after the Democratic governor of Kansas allowed a bill to become law barring higher education institutions from using DEI statements in employment and admissions. A budget bill given final approval in Iowa seeks to ban DEI offices and programs in higher education. Republicans in about two dozen states have filed bills this year targeting DEI efforts.
Thousands of United Methodists are gathering Tuesday in Charlotte, North Carolina, to begin an 11-day denominational General Conference. Typically it is held every four years, but church leaders delayed the 2020 gathering until now due to the pandemic. Hundreds of delegates will vote on policies, though many international delegates are not confirmed as able to attend. It's the first gathering since thousands of conservative U.S. congregations left the denomination over its failure to enforce bans on LGBTQ clergy and on same-sex marriages. Progressive delegates will attempt to overturn these bans. Other proposals include allowing regional autonomy in deciding such policies, and making it easier for international churches to disaffiliate.
The North Carolina General Assembly starts its annual work session with a little extra money to spend and limited pressing issues to address. Republicans leading the House and Senate are talking about the traditionally “short” session that starts Wednesday with a goal of finishing by early summer. The legislature’s chief duty in even-numbered years is to adjust the second year of the two-year government operating budget that’s already enacted. That could include looking at how to fund more private-school scholarships after an application boom. Legislation forcing local sheriffs to assist with federal immigration enforcement also could reach Democratic Gov. Cooper's desk. Republicans hold narrow veto-proof majorities.
RALEIGH — The North Carolina General Assembly began its annual work session Wednesday with a little extra money to spend and limited pressing issues to address before key elections this fall and longtime state government leaders depart.
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Egypt is sending a high-level delegation to Israel in the hope of reaching a cease-fire agreement with Hamas in Gaza, while warning a possible new Israeli offensive focused on the southern city of Rafah on the border with Egypt could have catastrophic consequences for regional stability, two…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and senior Chinese officials in Beijing. He warned of the dangers of misunderstandings and miscalculations as the United States and China butted heads over a number of contentious bilateral, regional and global issues. Blinken met with Xi after holding talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong. Talks between the two sides have increased in recent months, even as differences have grown. Earlier, Blinken and Wang underscored the importance of keeping lines of communication open as they lamented persistent and deepening divisions that threaten global security.
A relative says a premature Palestinian infant, who was rescued from her mother’s womb shortly after the woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike, has died. The baby girl's uncle said Friday that she died a day earlier after spending five days in an incubator, and was buried the same day. The infant was born by an emergency cesarean section after an Israeli airstrike on her family home in the southern Gaza city of Rafah killed her parents and 4-year-old sister. The infant's mother was 30 weeks' pregnant at the time of her death.
Millions of Indians are voting in the second round of multi-phase national elections, with some big names in the contest. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is strongly promoting his party’s pro-Hindu line in his campaign. Rahul Gandhi, a top opposition party leader, is contesting from Wayanad constituency in southern Kerala state for a second time after he was defeated in 2019 elections by a BJP leader in the northern Indian city of Amethi — a traditional stronghold for the Nehru-Gandhi family. Nearly 970 million voters — more than 10% of the world’s population — will elect 543 members to the lower house of Parliament for five years during the staggered election that runs until June 1. The votes will be counted on June 4.
Global shares are rising despite worries about the economic outlook and inflation in the U.S. and globally. Shares are higher in early Friday trading in France, Germany and Britain. U.S. futures are also higher. Benchmarks finished higher in Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Shanghai, while declining in Sydney. Oil prices rose, and the dollar edged higher against the Japanese yen. Although a weak yen is a boon for giant exporters such as Toyota, some Japanese officials are worried an overly weak currency is not good for the economy. The Bank of Japan ended a policy meeting with no major changes.
South Africa this week celebrates 30 years of freedom after a historic 1994 election that saw the end of white minority rule and racial segregation. However, much of the enthusiasm and optimism that characterized that historic day has subsided as Africa’s most developed economy faces a myriad of challenges, including widening inequality and high levels of poverty among the country's Black majority. These challenges come as the country braces for what is expected to be one of its most fiercely contested elections next month. For the first time since the African National Congress came into power in 1994, polls are indicating that the party might receive less than 50% of the national vote.
Students protesting the Israel-Hamas war are digging in at Columbia University for a 10th day, part of a number of demonstrations roiling campuses from California to Connecticut. Hundreds have been arrested across the nation, sometimes amid scuffles with police. In New York, Columbia is negotiating with student protesters who have rebuffed police and doubled down. Other schools have been quick to call law enforcement to douse demonstrations before they can take hold. Columbia officials have said they will seek other options if the negotiations with protesters fail.
Almost five years after Elijah McClain died after being put in a neck hold and injected with the powerful sedative ketamine, three of five Denver-area first responders prosecuted in the Black man’s death have been convicted. A former paramedic faces up to three years in prison in a sentencing hearing Friday. McClain’s name became a rallying cry in protests over racial injustice in policing that swept the U.S. in 2020. Elijah McClain's mother says justice has not yet been served. She says the two officers who were acquitted were complicit in her 23-year-old son’s murder and that they have escaped justice.
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