Rocky Mount News

The NYPD's Most Wanted Fugitive, according to the police Crimestoppers.com website, was caught in Rocky Mount NC over the weekend by New York and Rocky Mount police, and the U.S. Marshals service.

As many as 140 former Barcalounger plant workers could be eligible for federal cash payments for 2 1/2 years while they are enrolled in paid training for a new career.

An officer with 24 years of law enforcement experience now leads the Sharpsburg Police Department.

A local company next month will be hiring 100 people to handle customer service calls.

The foundation managing half of North Carolina's share of the national tobacco settlement violated open meetings laws and could be better protected from investment risk and political influence, State Auditor Beth Wood's office said Monday.

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Community advocates are planning a memorial service Thursday for the Rocky Mount woman whose body was found abandoned in a thicket in February off Melton Drive.

Two people are facing drug charges in two separate cases in Rocky Mounty. George Perry was arrested just after 11:00 p.m. Friday at a home on Woodland Avenue.

A man is recovering from a shooting, and police say the gunman is behind bars in Rocky Mount.

The timing could not have been more perfect. A day before the Rocky Mount Senior High School class of 1979 gathered to celebrate its 30th reunion, a time capsule the former classmates had buried as ninth-graders finally was unearthed.

Responding to a tip e-mailed to Rocky Mount police, Nash County deputies on Friday arrested two men accused of defrauding at least one woman in a parking lot.

Four break-ins within in an hour. That's what happened in Rocky Mount Tuesday morning.

A funeral home owner said its her "human" feelings that made her want to host a memorial today for Elizabeth Jane Smallwood, whose remains were found in February.

Authroities charged two suspects Thursday in connection with an armed robbery Wednesday morning at a Rocky Mount pawn shop.

A memorial will take place Thursday for the most recent woman found dead in Rocky Mount.

Police in one city in Eastern Carolina are searching for a possible arsonist that may be targeting a real estate business.

Rocky Mount fire investigators believe a blaze that destroyed a downtown warehouse Saturday likely was started intentionally.

City of Rocky Mount NC firefighters responded to a vacant warehouse fire Saturday morning October 24, 2009 at 0704 hours.

She was missing for at least a year, but nobody seemed to notice. Even in February, after a prison work crew found the skeletal remains of a small-framed female in a thicket near U.S. 64, no one stepped forward to claim the body.

Rocky Mount officials are proposing a handful of changes to their annexation plan that they hope will bring to an end any potential lawsuits against the city.