Rocky Mount News

The Rocky Mount Community Partnership for Revitalization has not benefited financially from managing the Community and Hospitality Center in the old Norfolk & Western Railway depot.

Motorists in Rocky Mount, take note. The speed limit on the section of Pell Avenue from Main Street past the old Lane plant industrial area to a point between Donald Avenue and Center Street may soon be raised ...

Staff Photo by Morris Stephenson: This mannequin of a boy, which was part of a July 4th display at the town clock in the farmers market on Franklin Street, is missing.

The Franklin County Board of Supervisors took a small step toward eliminating county decal for vehicles Tuesday when the board voted 5-2 to set a public hearing before making a final decision.

A Rocky Mount man was killed when his vehicle ran off the road and overturned near Redwood Sunday morning.

A reshuffled town council is off to a riveting start, voting during its first regular meeting to pull the funding for the management of its hospitality center and correcting an improper vote it took two weeks ...

Two people are dead after separate accidents. State police tell us the first accident happened in Franklin County around 11:30 Saturday night.

Congress has voted to delay the requirement for competitive bidding for medical equipment provided to Medicare beneficiaries by companies like Franklin Respiratory and Medical Inc.

A Rocky Mount man died in a single-vehicle wreck Saturday night in Franklin County, according to state police.

July 13, 2008 Accident claims life of one man in Franklin County A 21-year-old is dead following an accident in Franklin County Saturday night.

Volunteer musicians are needed for two Thursday evenings a month to jam at an official Crooked Road site.

Staff Photo by Morris Stephenson: Heavy rains from passing thunderstorms have drenched some areas of Franklin County but not the mountains of Callaway, where both the Blackwater and Pigg Rivers form.

A Boones Mill man has been arrested in connection with a stabbing incident on Franklin Street early Sunday morning.

Hundreds of area residents signed a 9-foot long banner at the Rocky Mount Rotary Club's Independence Day Festival on July 3. The banner is sponsored by the Franklin County Parks and Recreation Department and ...

Three persons were indicted by a Franklin County grand jury Monday on a combined total of 43 counts of unlawfully receiving public assistance and/or making false statements to receive public assistance.

July 9, 2008 Rocky Mount native to pitch for Danville Braves Thursday The Danville Braves will have plenty of local flavor when they take on the Bluefield Orioles Thursday night at Dan Daniel Memorial Park.

As a medic during WWII, he was credited with saving untold numbers of soldiers wounded in battle Staff Photo by Morris Stephenson: Charles Davis of Richmond, right, accepts the Rocky Mount Rotary Club s fourth ...

The cause of a fire that destroyed a house in Callaway Monday morning will be difficult to determine because the blaze left little evidence to examine.

Photo by Meg Hibbert. Frank's Pizza owner and manager Patricia Giovannini and her husband, mark, at left, and their staff show off one of the freshly baked pizzas at their Salem location.

Veteran members of the Rocky Mount Rotary Club agreed that Thursday night's 22nd annual Independence Day Festival drew the largest crowd in recent years to Cy Dillon Stadium on the Franklin County High School ...