Battleboro News

Tynatta James holds the high school graduation photo of her little sister, Ernestine Battle, one of six women found dead along Seven Bridges Road since 2005.

Edgecombe County authorities and the State Bureau of Investigation are trying to determine whether the unsolved homicides of six women in and around Rocky Mount since 2005 are connected.

Skeletal remains found late last month in a wooded area in Edgecombe County are those of a woman who was reported missing two months ago, authorities said Tuesday.

Edgecombe County will receive more than $650,000 in grant money from the N.C. Rural Center for the county's water and sewer districts projects.

As Edgecombe County authorities continue their investigation into the unsolved murders of five women over the past four years, the mother of one of the victims is coming forward.

Authorities in Edgecombe County are trying to connect the dots after the discovery Monday of skeletal remains in a wooded area off Seven Bridges Road.

As construction wraps up on the final phase of Edgecombe County's Water District 5 this summer, so too will the last section of the countywide water system begin.

A man who was involved in a two-day standoff with authorities died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Passing through the Battleboro community, and looking over at Phillips Middle School, you wouldn't guess how different the front building is on the inside from the almost identical look it has on the outside.

The Nash County Business Development Authority sponsored a ceremony May 12 to dedicate a monument at the Whitakers Business and Industry Center to honor the late Jimmie D. Smith Jr.

Billy Stallings of Kinston received a letter over the weekend telling him he'd won $125,000 in a sweepstakes drawing.

Authorities continue to search for a Rocky Mount man who escaped deputies Wednesday when he fled from a traffic stop and into the woods on Jeffreys Road.

The Edgecombe County Board of Education was presented with a few things to think about on Monday night that extended past what was on the agenda.

Judy Silver's joy as a mother stems from the fact that her children are well - including a son who used his communications expertise abroad during the rescue of a captain held captive by Somali pirates last month.

At its monthly meeting Monday, the Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners set a June hearing for assuming a portion of Town of Pinetop's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction area.

Local and state officials said LS Tractor USA plans to invest $14 million to open a distribution facility in a business park in Battleboro, north of Rocky Mount.

In an area where the unemployment rate has reached 13.2 percent, any jobs are good news -- especially when they pay a third more than the average wage for the area.

The new church at 214 2nd St. in Pinetops will hold services on the second and third Sundays of each month at 11 a.m. Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. Glorious Tabernacle of Faith Men's Breakfast will be held at 9 a.m. on April 18.

Twin Counties Emergency management officials were breathing a sigh of relief on Monday afternoon after radar indicated possible rotation of a tornado in the Battleboro area at about 10 a.m. That caused officials to issue a tornado warning, but no funnel clouds or tornadoes were confirmed by the National Weather Service in Raleigh.

Elmo Boswell doesn't push up from the ground as quickly as when she was younger.