Macclesfield News

Only two more candidates filed Wednesday at the Edgecombe County Board of Elections for November's municipal elections, one incumbent and one challenger.

A handful of area residents signed up to run for municipal offices throughout Nash and Edgecombe counties Monday during the first day to file for fall elections.

Of the more than 30 municipal candidates up for reelection this year, six incumbents, and one challenger, officially declared their candidacies Monday.

Breanna Glosson does her best to hold back tears when she looks at photos of Tyler McMillan on her Toshiba laptop computer.

I do not care for President Obama's choice for the Supreme Court. Judge Sotomayer is probably the most overturned nominee ever to seek the high bench.

A Macclesfield father accused of tying his son to a tree for several hours last summer is expected in court Monday for a pre-trial hearing.

The Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners will likely set the 2009-10 county budget, and the new 86-cent property tax rate, at Monday's meeting in Tarboro.

Gwen Pitt of Macclesfield has been appointed by Gov. Beverly Perdue to serve on the Tobacco Trust Fund Commission.

Though the nation witnessed an historic election in 2008, there will be plenty of action in Edgecombe County come election time in November.

Two personal injury accidents occurred in Edgecombe County Saturday, one where a motorcyclist was ejected and landed in the roadway.

More than 300 Edgecombe, Nash and Halifax County residents came out Tuesday for the 72nd annual Eastern Carolina 4-H Meat Animal Show and Sale at the East Carolina Agriculture and Education Center on Kingsboro Road.

Edgecombe County deputies arrested 13 individuals during a four-month illegal drug operation.

Among the 131 homicides resulting from domestic violence across North Carolina in 2008, five occurred in Edgecombe County, N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper reported.

A Pitt County man was charged with driving while impaired and careless and reckless driving Sunday after he wrecked a rental car near Macclesfield that went airborne and caught on fire.

Four break-ins occurred in Pinetops in January, as well as a purse-snatching on Wednesday, Pinetops Police Capt.

A man who allegedly stabbed a Good Samaritan in Wilson County last week is wanted by Edgecombe County Sheriff's deputies in connection with two thefts in Macclesfield last year.

The Macclesfield woman charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 13-year-old stepson pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Edgecombe County Superior Court.

The parents of a 13-year-old who died when he was left tied to a tree are expected in an Edgecombe County courtroom Wednesday on murder and felony child abuse charges.

Victoria Rogers wanted to cry when she first saw the destruction left behind by the tornado that ripped through the London Church Road area of Wilson County in November.

An autopsy report shows a 13-year-old boy left tied to a tree for 18 hours in June died of dehydration and heat stroke.