Rocky Mount News

Rocky Mount police are investigating three alleged rapes reported during the past week.

Juray Tucker last saw her daughter Yolanda Lancaster five months ago at her home on Grand Avenue in Rocky Mount.

The law firm of HensonFuerst P.A. recently provided a $10,000 corporate sponsorship to the American Diabetes Association for their 2009 Tour de Cure.

June recognized Pam Tesarz from the neighborhood. Pam's smile had caught her attention, but June had never gotten up the nerve to have more than a passing conversation with her.

A medical examiner ruled out foul play yesterday as the cause of death of a Winston-Salem man whose body was found off Peters Creek Parkway Monday, authorities said.

A man was arrested Friday after allegedly leaving marijuana residue in a Best Buy restroom.

The decision was not an easy one for the Coleys. Lillie Coley did not want to go in a nursing home, but a stroke suffered in 2000 had left her unable to move her left side, said Deborah Coley, her daughter-in-law. She stayed with family members after her husband died in 2003, but she needed around-the-clock care.

A couple hundred people filled Harambee Square Courtyard on Friday, relaxing downtown under the evening sun and swaying as regional jazz artist Freddy "Street Genie" Greene paid homage to old school jazz.

Jane Bailey, Trey Bailey, Joyce Bennett and Clyde Bailey, left to right. Bennett was recognized at the Baileya s Fine Jewelry Employee Banquet for 40 years of service at Baileya s Fine Jewelry in Rocky Mount.

Rocky Mount officials say jobs can be created and local tax dollars can be saved by making city and residential buildings more energy efficient.

The Nash-Rocky Mount Rotary Club hosted its Officer Installation Banquet on June 11 at the Doubletree Hotel.

Local authorities are investigating a rash of suspicious fires being set in vacant properties in the Branch Street area.

Death penalty opponents are planning a 300-mile walk around eastern North Carolina to lobby for abolition of capital punishment in the state.

"Bojangles" the stray cat won't be coming by Bernice Fuller's apartment any more after being picked up on Monday.

An armed robbery at a mall has police in one Eastern Carolina city searching for a gunman.

A 27-year-old man died Saturday night after jerking his car left, causing it to overturn multiple times on Davis Road near Sharpsburg.

The Junior Guild of Rocky Mount Inc. is proud to announce that J'Taime Brion Lyons is the recipient of the 2009 Junior Guild Scholarship.

Police are searching for a Rocky Mount man accused of shooting another man twice around noon today.

Students at Rocky Mount Preparatory School are benefitting from single-sex classes, and school officials learned more about why this week during a workshop.

Hey, read the rules! Police in one Eastern Carolina city need your help in locating a shooting suspect who got away on a bicycle.