Louisburg News

As a statewide drought bears down for the second year in a row, Wilson, Rocky Mount and Nash County are prepared to send or receive emergency water supplies.

An American flag whips and swirls in an early morning wind on Capital Boulevard.

A Louisburg man died Friday afternoon while swimming in a pool at a private residence in Zebulon.

A Louisburg man charged earlier this week with DWI had been arrested nine other times for the same offense in the past 17 years, according to court records.

By JOY PERRY Things were hot as a firecracker both with the weather and action on the race track Saturday night at County Line Raceway as 27 cautions slowed the evening's racing events.

As drought conditions across North Carolina begin to intensify, Rocky Mount city officials are breathing a sigh of relief.

Two people were killed Thursday when a pickup truck collided head-on with a Corvette on U.S. Highway 401 in Franklin County, authorities said.

Fred Waidner didn't grow up whistling. The Northbrook resident found he had an appreciation for whistling at age 13 after listening to a synthesizer player perform music by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Her music is as lovely as a song sung by a pretty bird. Of course, birds don't actually "sing," and neither does Kimiko Wakiyama.

A tragic case at the for-profit Franklin Regional Medical Center spotlights the importance and value of tough investigations It is too late to help William Bobbitt Paschall, who died in December at Franklin ...

On a recent trip to celebrate Mass at a new Roman Catholic Church, the Rev. Omoviekovwa Nakireru set his car's GPS to Our Lady of the Rosary in Louisburg.

Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy for helping a missing 13-year-old girl run away from home.

WEDNESDAY: Betsy Johnson Regional Hospital in Dunn and Central Carolina Hospital in Sanford will conduct a drill like the one at WakeMed and Rex.

Triangle mayors and legislators are lining up behind legislation to tackle urban traffic congestion, start building the state's first modern toll roads and find money for better bus service and a rail transit ...

Triangle Business Journal - by Jeff Drew Rex Healthcare and the owner of Franklin Regional Medical Center are appealing a state ruling denying their bid to build a new hospital in Franklin County just north of ...

Changing face of the NCSHP DAILY DISPATCH/ AL WHELESS Trooper Doug Bowens of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol keeps watch over our roads as the agency actively recruits a more diverse base of officers, ... via Daily Dispatch

“This grant makes it possible for more than 1,000 farmers and farm operations to restore some of the damage from last summer's severe drought and to prepare, so the next long, hot and dry summer doesn't do as much damage”

The rains have come. The lakes are full again. But the drought is still alive and well at many North Carolina farms. via Wral.com

“The first band of storms is expected to be out of the Triangle within the hour”

As severe storms move across the Triangle, a tornado watch remains in effect for most of central North Carolina. via Wral.com

“When I got there, they were broke”

Unchecked spending leads to mounting debt, the threat of bankruptcy and the firings of numerous employees to help stave off a financial disaster. via The Smithfield Herald

“I just never let it get that far”

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