Battleboro News

More men are being educated, employed and establishing stronger relationships with their family due to a new program being offered by the Family Resource Center in Princeville.

Who is the person in the surveillance photo? Deputies in Halifax County want to know who is using a stolen bank card.

Rocky Mount Councilman Reuben Blackwell and political newcomer Jane Gravely have been knocking on many of the same doors and talking with some of the same people in recent weeks.

Two Edgecombe County Rescue Squad personnel were treated for minor injuries, after their ambulance flipped on its side responded to a call early Monday morning.

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Nash/Edgecombe counties doesn't want the public to get the wrong idea of where it stands with funding for the organization this year.

A search and rescue team from Johnston County was Wednesday called to assist Edgecombe County authorities in searching a rural area near Battleboro, a spokeswoman said.

Edgecombe County residents will receive extra emergency service manpower with the creation of new facilities.

WRAL.com is reporting a man has been arrested in connection with the killing of one of six women in Rocky Mount over the past four years.

Area firefighters and rescue instructors recently traveled more than 1,600 miles to Central America to train soldiers on situational rescue tactics.

May 2007 was a pivotal time in Jackie Wiggins' life. She spent most evenings that month scouring the streets searching for her adult daughter, Jackie Nikelia Thorpe, asking neighborhood friends if they'd seen her and pleading with police to put out an alert.

Dorothy Tucker and her neighbors have lobbied the better part of the past decade for the city to create a place for neighborhood children to play and for families to gather in the Battleboro community.

Friends and family have formed a nonprofit organization to help an injured Nash County woman pay her medical bills.

The images of five missing and murdered Rocky Mount women now flash on billboards in Rocky Mount.

The images of five missing and murdered Rocky Mount women now flash on billboards in Rocky Mount.

The FBI has joined the investigation of the deaths of five Rocky Mount women whose bodies were found in the same rural area of North Carolina.

Director of the Small Business College at Edgecombe Community College Trudy Lynn, right, assists DeLoris Knight, center, during the ABC's of Starting a Business seminar Tuesday at the Rocky Mount/Edgecombe Community Developmenet Corporation Business Development Center.

Police are looking for a woman who's been missing in the Rocky Mount area of eastern North Carolina since Sunday.

A candlelight vigil will be held Sunday evening for five Rocky Mount women whose bodies were found in the same rural area of Edgecombe County.

Four foster children were honored Wednesday for graduating high school this year at the Edgecombe County Department of Social Services's annex in Tarboro.

A geographic profiler says he believes the person or people responsible for the unsolved slayings of several women found in rural Edgecombe County could live within as little as 2 miles from where the bodies have been found.