A Vermont man who police said barricaded himself in a truck after he set fire to a camper, robbed a Greenville convenience store and crashed his truck was arrested after a standoff with police.
Residents looking to renew their licence plates or take care of title transactions have one fewer spot to do so after a north Greenville office closed last week.
A downtown Greenville intersection has been closed to widen sidewalks and make other improvements related to the BUILD project, according to a city news release.
East Carolina University graduates walked very different paths on their way to the stage at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Friday, but with their degrees conferred a handful said they are looking forward to what heights they can achieve and problems they can address next.
The Pitt County Board of Commissioners and Greenville City Council will learn the proposed property tax rates for their respective governmental entities when their respective staffs deliver fiscal year 2024-25 budget presentations on Monday.
In the two months since Pitt County Schools Superintendent Ethan Lenker made known his plans to retire this summer, the Board of Education has not announced plans to search for his replacement.
President Joe Biden has met privately with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job in Charlotte, North Carolina. Biden said he was praying for loved ones and others left behind after the shooting. He said the U.S. has to get officers “the resources they need to do their jobs, and "weapons of war” must be kept out of the wrong hands. The visit came just a week after he sat down with the grieving relatives of two cops killed in upstate New York.
A Pitt County ambulance and apparatus dealership and service provider is expanding and creating 10 new jobs with $1.45 million in new investment.
Project Fan: Seniors who need relief from the heat may be eligible to receive a free fan from the Council on Aging. To qualify, individuals must be older than 60, have no air conditioning or be unable to afford utilities, have not received a fan from the COA in the last two years and must present a photo ID. Those who meet the requirements and need a fan at no cost should contact the COA at 752-1717, Ext. 206.
A man was charged with driving while impaired and other offenses after police said he backed into an occupied vehicle unprovoked, fled the scene and was later tasered.
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East Carolina and South Florida played an unorthodox doubleheader on Sunday to finish their three-game American Athletic Conference series.
East Carolina took a two-run lead in the bottom of the first inning of Friday’s series opener against South Florida. And with Trey Yesavage on the mound, that lead felt like so much more.
The Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce Classic golf tournament is set to make its annual return on May 17 at Greenville Country Club.
The Greene Central baseball team will enter the postseason with a zero on the end of its record.
Officials with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission have announced the approved season dates, bag limits and applicable regulations for the 2024-25 waterfowl, webless migratory game bird (including doves) and extended falconry seasons.
The J.H. Rose girls’ soccer team held off a Manteo club on Wednesday night that entered the match with a 13-1-1 record, taking down the Redskins 3-2 at home.
Just after my freshman year at East Carolina University, I, along with millions of North Carolina women, watched in horror as our freedom to make decisions about our own bodies was stripped away. It was a deeply painful moment for me. I was terrified that I no longer had a right that my moth…
On this Earth Day my thoughts turned to how very important it has become to focus global attention on the preservation of our fragile environment and the rehabilitation of the harm we, as the human species, have contributed to its decline. It would be so easy for us to throw up our hands, cr…
“The 2024 election is in full swing and yes, age is an issue,” President Biden cracked at the White House correspondents’ dinner. “I’m a grown man running against a 6-year-old.”
“The election is clearly changing now, moving towards Biden,” the influential Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg declared on March 26. “The Biden bump is real.” For Republicans, Rosenberg is someone worth listening to; he was right about the nonexistent “red wave” that many in the GOP exp…
Today's editorial was first published April 26, prior to Tuesday's decision to clear the Columbia University campus of protestors.
John Hood is a columnist for the John Locke Foundation and a member of its board of directors.
Two Broadway shows celebrating the origins of sonic creativity — the musical “Hell’s Kitchen” fueled by Alicia Keys songs, and the play “Stereophonic” about a ’70s rock band at the edge of stardom — each earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations Tuesday. The list also saw a record number of women nominated for best director. A total of 28 shows earned a Tony nod or more, with the musical “The Outsiders,” an adaptation of the beloved S. E. Hinton novel and the Francis Ford Coppola film, earning 12 nominations, and a starry revival of “Cabaret” starring Eddie Redmayne, nabbing nine. The Tonys are set for June 16.
These May events offer music, theater and family fun for Greenville-area residents. Here is a sampling.
Several Pitt County Schools students received honors at last month’s North Carolina State Mathematics Finals Eastern Region competition. The competition, held April 25 at Fayetteville State University, was open to students from 41 counties.
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It's six months before Election Day, and Joe Biden and Donald Trump are locked in a presidential rematch. The race is highly in flux as many voters are only just beginning to embrace the reality of the 2024 contest. Wars, trials, the independent candidacy of Robert Kennedy Jr. and deep divisions across America have created much uncertainty. At the same time, domestic policy fights over abortion, immigration and the economy are raging. On top of that, public polling consistently shows that voters don’t like their election year options. But whether voters want to believe it or not, the general election matchup is all but set.
Trial has started in a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s photo voter identification law. The trial began Monday in Winston-Salem, more than five years after the NAACP sued over the voter ID law enacted by the Republican-dominated General Assembly. The litigation and a similar state lawsuit delayed implementation of the requirement until recently. The plaintiffs say the law violates the U.S. Constitution and Voting Rights Act and harms Black and Latino voters. Republican lawmakers defending the law say there are many more qualifying IDs compared with a 2013 voter ID law that was struck down. The trial could last several days. No immediate ruling is expected.
Federal officials say the number of fish on the government’s overfishing list sunk to a new low last year in a sign of healthy U.S. fisheries. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an updated analysis of American fisheries late last week via its annual “Status of the Stocks” report, which provides an assessment of the populations of the species fishermen catch and customers buy. NOAA says the U.S. was able to remove several important fish stocks from the overfishing list. They include the Gulf of Maine stock of Atlantic mackerel and the Gulf of Mexico stock of cubera snapper.
From marches and art exhibitions to candlelight vigils, people are gathering across the U.S. to spotlight the high rate of disappearances and killings in Native American communities. Sunday marks Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day, with more events planned over the coming days. This year, the federal government is touting the hiring of special prosecutors and coordinators who are addressing systemic issues that have made tackling the crisis a generational challenge. Communication and cooperation across jurisdictions are at the top of the list. In New Mexico, authorities say they worked together to identify a prime suspect in a series of violent crimes against Native American men.
When the United Methodist Church removed anti-gay language from its official rules last week, it marked the end of a half-century of debates over LGBTQ inclusion in America's mainline Protestant denominations. The moves sparked joy from progressive delegates, but the church faces many of the same challenges as the Lutheran, Presbyterian and Episcopal denominations that took similar routes over the past few decades. There have been schisms, and strained relations with international churches. And each of the mainline denominations faces the long-term aging and shrinking of their memberships.
Since Florida enacted a six-week abortion ban, clinics in several other Southern and mid-Atlantic states have sprung into action. They know women impacted by the Florida change last week will look to them for services no longer available where they live. In North Carolina, health care clinics are rushing to expand availability and decrease wait times. Their reaction is part of a growing trend in the U.S. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, more than 20 states have adopted laws banning or severely limiting abortions. In response, states with looser restrictions have taken steps to welcome women who want or need to end their pregnancies.
A deadly shootout in Charlotte that left five dead illustrates how smartphone-wielding bystanders don’t always run for cover when bullets start to fly. Increasingly, they look to livestream their perspective of the attack. Experts say the reaction reflects the new role that bystanders play in the age of smartphones. Saing Chhoeun was locked out of his home Monday as law enforcement with high-powered riles descended into his yard and garage. He took out his phone and started live-streaming the standoff between officials and his neighbor, a man wanted for possession of a firearm by an ex-felon and fleeing to elude. Other residents did the same.
The North Carolina Senate has approved legislation to set aside roughly $500 million more for now for programs that provide taxpayer money to help K-12 students attend private schools. The majority-Republican Senate voted Thursday along party lines to spend the money, almost all of which will cover a surge in demand for Opportunity Scholarship grants since income caps to receive them were eliminated. The demand has resulted in a waiting list of nearly 55,000 students. The measure could go to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper next week if the House votes to affirm the legislation. Cooper opposes these vouchers, but Republicans hold narrow veto-proof majorities.
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Tornadoes touched down Monday evening in rural Oklahoma as large hail pelted parts of Kansas. Forecasters have issued a rare high risk warning for the two states. The storm chasers detected several small funnels emerging from clouds Monday before identifying a twister near the small Oklahoma town of Okeene. A dispatcher for Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, says there was a report of tornado damage to a single home, but it wasn’t immediately known if anyone was hurt. Meanwhile, apple-sized hail was reported near Ellinwood, Kansas, northwest of Wichita. The severe weather follows heavy rainfall in Houston, where floodwaters began to recede Monday.
Boeing has called off its first astronaut launch because of a balky rocket valve. The two NASA test pilots had just strapped into Boeing's Starliner capsule when the countdown was halted Monday night, two hours before the planned liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida. A United Launch Alliance spokesman says the problem involves an oxygen relief valve on the Atlas rocket's upper stage. There was no immediate word on when the next launch attempt might be for the flight to the International Space Station. Starliner's first test flight without a crew in 2019 failed to reach the space station and Boeing had to repeat the flight.
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded three Pulitzer Prizes apiece on Monday for work in 2023 that dealt with everything from the war in Gaza to gun violence, and The Associated Press won in the feature photography category for coverage of global migration t…
Hamas says it's accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal, but Israel says the deal did not meet its core demands and has pushed ahead with an assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Still, Israel says it will continue negotiations. The high-stakes diplomatic moves and military brinkmanship left a glimmer of hope for an accord that could at least a pause the 7-month-old war that has devastated the Gaza Strip. Hanging over the wrangling was the threat of an all-out Israeli assault on Rafah, a move the United States strongly opposes and that aid groups warn will be disastrous for some 1.4 million Palestinians taking refuge there.
Two Australians and an American were doing what they loved on the stunning, largely isolated stretch of Baja California’s Pacific coast. Their last images on social media showed them gazing at the waves, contemplating the breaks. What happened to end their lives may have been as random as a passing pickup truck full of people with ill intent. The surfers were shot in the head, their bodies dumped in a covered well miles away. An attempt by prosecutors to reconstruct the scene shows that what unfolded was the stuff of nightmares.
Trial has started in a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s photo voter identification law. The trial began Monday in Winston-Salem, more than five years after the NAACP sued over the voter ID law enacted by the Republican-dominated General Assembly. The litigation and a similar state lawsuit delayed implementation of the requirement until recently. The plaintiffs say the law violates the U.S. Constitution and Voting Rights Act and harms Black and Latino voters. Republican lawmakers defending the law say there are many more qualifying IDs compared with a 2013 voter ID law that was struck down. The trial could last several days. No immediate ruling is expected.
Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked by police from accessing an encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology broke through fencing to retake the area, as Columbia University canceled its university-wide commencement ceremony following weeks of demonstrations. Other protesters at MIT Monday sat on Massachusetts Avenue, blocking evening rush-hour traffic in Boston. Officials at Columbia in New York City said in a statement Monday that instead of a large graduation event, it will focus on smaller school-level graduation ceremonies. Emory University says it's moving its commencement from its Atlanta campus to a suburban arena. Campus protests have sprung up across the U.S. stemming from the conflict that started when Hamas militants attacked southern Israel in October.
French President Emmanuel Macron has put trade disputes and Ukraine-related diplomatic efforts at the top of the agenda for talks with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping. Macron said the talks included lifting immediate tariff threats on French Cognac exports. The Chinese leader arrived in France to open his European tour. Xi first joined a meeting with Macron and the European Commission president meant to address broader European Union concerns on trade and security issues. Macron said Monday that France hopes China’s influence on Moscow would help to move Russia toward ending the war in Ukraine. Xi’s European trip is his first in five years. He will go to Serbia and Hungary next.
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