Hertford News

Volunteers who serve on the board of directors for Historic Hertford Inc. include: Ann Taylor , Jean Bielski, Murielle Harmon, Nancy Gruner and JoAnn Morris.

The director of a Perquimans County youth camp has been arrested on charges he allegedly had sexual contact with a child.

Two tractor-trailers collided on NC Highway 168 in Currituck County earlier today, overturning one of the rigs and sending both drivers to the hospital with minor injuries.

She's traveled from the coast to the mountains working with local school districts during her educational career, but now Linda Layden has come back home.

A Hertford man is receiving anti-rabies treatments after being bitten by a rabid raccoon earlier this month.

A petition seeking the reinstatement of Hertford's only black police officer was presented to Town Council last week, calling his recent firing "wrongful." The petition, which was signed by 124 residents, comes a month after Clifton Johnson was terminated by the Hertford Police Department.

A mother and daughter accused in the 2007 shooting death of a Hertford man will be tried together on first-degree murder charges, possibly this August, the district attorney says.

Perquimans County commissioners have rejected a proposed minimum housing ordinance that supporters say is needed to help rid the county of substandard dwellings.

This season's Summer Breeze Concert series begins Sunday with the swinging sounds of Steve Creech's All Star Dixieland Jazz band.

Albemarle Plantation has been named one of America's 100 best master-planned communities by "Where to Retire" magazine.

A Hertford man was being treated for head trauma Thursday after his bicycle collided with a vehicle near the entrance to the Perquimans Centre Shopping Center.

ElectriCities will be looking to its new chief executive officer for leadership keeping its member cities' rates competitive with other electricity suppliers.

Each week hundreds of people call or visit the San Marcos Public Library to find information.

The towns of Hertford and Winfall are still at odds over Winfall's unpaid debt for wastewater treatment, even though a mediator has proposed an agreement designed to resolve the dispute.

Scuff and slide, scuff and slide. One-two-three kick. Gravevine left, grapevine right.

A coalition of regional African American organizations critical of black leadership in politics and churches announced plans Wednesday to change the culture of poverty and crime in the black community in northeastern North Carolina.

Murielle Harmon feels she's been victimized twice: once by the five suspects accused in the heist of approximately $15,000 in jewelry from her home, and again by a town that doesn't have a police department office open on weekends to help solve crimes.

It was a busy Friday for the Tyrrell County Sheriff's Office as deputies busted nine people on drug related offenses.

A housesitter who apparently threw a party while the owner was away is one of several people charged in connection with the theft of $15,000 in jewelry from a Front Street home.

Mother's Day weekend brings with it gasoline prices that have pushed well past the $2 mark, but the increasing costs at the pump aren't expected to reach as high as they were last year.