Elizabeth City News

The Daily Advance of Elizabeth City reported that McCrory will participate in events on Saturday.

The N.C. Potato Festival happens again in downtown Elizabeth City. There will be plenty of vendors, lots of music, rides for the kids, a street dance at night complete with fireworks.

Coast Guard officials stand in front of the new Thrun Hall and galley after cutting the ribbon on the new facility, Tuesday on the Elizabeth City Coast Guard base.

The thermometer hit 41 degrees in Wallops Island at 5:20 a.m., tying a record set in 1996 and 2007.

Elizabeth City and Pasquotank County officials have reached flash points of disagreement over two jointly funded services for next year: parks and recreation and the senior center.

Local police say they have uncovered more than 100 crimes reported on the Elizabeth City State University campus dating to 2007 that were never investigated.

The police chief at Elizabeth State University has resigned as state investigators look into how his department handled a sexual battery case in April.

Toyota of Elizabeth City last week celebrated the completion of major renovations that have coincided with a surge in sales.

Sam Tolson was born on Portsmouth Island in 1840. When he was 24 years old he traveled to Elizabeth City with a few other islanders looking for work.

Elizabeth City, N.C.- The former chief of University Police for Elizabeth City State University, Sam Beamon, handed in his resignation today effective immediately after he was placed on administrative leave.

A sewer line break on South Road Street created a "big and dangerous" sinkhole near the Roanoke Avenue intersection Thursday afternoon, Elizabeth City officials said.

Restaurant General Manager Donnie Bowling says a few words during the grand opening of the new Panera Bread bakery-cafe on Ehringhaus Street in Elizabeth City earlier today.

Crystal Lynette Mosley, 30, of the 900 block of Nelson St., Norfolk, Va., was arrested May 3 and charged with failure to appear in court as required.

A 72-year-old man who believes he fell, hit his head and was unconscious for seven hours was rescued by the Coast Guard Wednesday approximately 70 miles east of Kitty Hawk, N.C. An air crew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C. located the sailboat Erma.

A backhoe operator demolishes the old picnic shelter at Charles Creek Park in Elizabeth City, Tuesday.

Staff photo by Brett A. ClarkWhen Cindy Williams isn't working alongside husband and business partner Tim Williams at their print shop, she's working alonside him to organize the N.C. Potato Festival.

Winner of 10 Academy Awards, Gone with the Wind remains popular decades after its 1939 premiere.Hollywood's highly romanticized movie of the "Old South" is based on Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Amy Spencer of the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Schools Education Foundation looks over a project titled "Rekindle the Love of Reading" by Sarah Smithson, 11, and Qu'Asia, 11, at Performance Chevrolet in Elizabeth City on Wednesday.

Elizabeth City police are seeking a local man wanted for the shooting of a neighbor at a mobile home park Sunday afternoon.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Phillip Carro, a boatswain's mate from Coast Guard Station Elizabeth City, prepares the 30-foot sailboat South Bound to be towed by a Coast Guard 25-foot response boat Saturday.