Elizabeth City News

That small group -- the police chiefs of all 17 campuses of the University of North Carolina system -- is dead-set against the portion of House Bill 937 that would allow handguns on university property, from Cullowhee in the west to Elizabeth City in the east.

Sewer line work on Brooks Avenue in Elizabeth City is winding down, but it could be weeks before the road is resurfaced.

Grayslake Ill., paints a window frame at a house in the 400 block of East Broad Street on Tuesday.

Staff photo by Brett A. ClarkDr. Walter Smith, Jr.,has been the pastor at Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church for the past seven years.

Last Friday, University of North Carolina System President Tom Ross announced a campus security initiative to ensure sexual assault cases are properly investigated and prosecuted, and more broadly that serious campus crimes get the attention they deserve.

In January 2011, the interactive project map outlining what the North Carolina Research and Education could look like in 2013 was mostly red.

Elizabeth City officials and a prominent local Realtor aren't seeing eye-to-eye on what future development of the Halstead Boulevard Extended corridor should look like.

Shade and Odell Lee stayed awake until sunrise. Two of eight Lee brothers serving in World War II, the pair were in Saipan, discussing life both at home and abroad, with an inevitable question mixed in: "What if we don't make it home?" Shade, a Tuskegee Airman, noticed the character Odell, a Montford Point Marine, kept about him as the men played ... (more)

River City Community Development Corporation hosted the 12th Annual Juneteenth Celebration Saturday at Waterfront Park in downtown Elizabeth City.

"I hear life changing stories everyday," said Koch, senior membership director at the Albemarle Family YMCA and Currituck Family YMCA.

Michelle Huneycutt, a radiology specialist, types in information for a patient who is about to receive a free mammogram inside the BelkGives on the Go Mobile Mammography Center, Wednesday.

NBC News anchor and reporter Lester Holt tweeted a picture recently saying he was in Elizabeth City on board a jayhawk chopper profiling air search and rescue training for an NBC Nightly News story.

UNC president Tom Ross speaks during a Faculty Council meeting Friday, March 8, 2013, at UNC-Chapel Hill's Sonja Haynes Center for Black Culture and History.

WASHINGTON , June 13, 2013 - World War II generations recall "Loose lips sink ships."

Captain Jim Greer and crew member Suzy David pose in front of the 48-foot solar-powered yacht, The Ra, at the dock at Waterfront Park on Thursday.

The Newbold-White House continues a 13-year tradition this summer with a series of outdoor concerts on the grounds of the historic home just outside of Hertford.

Smoke from a controlled wheat fire outside Elizabeth City drifted into a residential neighborhood just west of downtown Thursday morning, prompting reports of smoke in the area of the Culpepper Inn.

Ex-Hertford County Chief Deputy Timothy Lassiter pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court to one count of deprivation of rights under color of law.

WASHINGTON , June 12, 2013 - As the debate over whether the 29-year-old whiz kid who admitted to leaking classified documents to the press is a hero or a traitor continues, there are more questions than answers about who Edward Snowden is and how he became a household name.

An Elizabeth City State University student who said she was sexually assaulted by a security guard in her dorm room gave more details Tuesday of the pressure she said she faced from college administrators to drop her complaint to campus police.