Roxboro News

Sisters Kathy and Lisa Roberts have lived in the small, Durham County community of Rougemont most of their lives.

Post Offices throughout North Carolina will operate on a Saturday schedule July 3 in observance of the Independence Day Holiday.

It's a move that's been 20 years in the making. The city of Danville will changie some of its collection days for refuse and yard waste.

Published: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 1:32 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 1:32 p.m. The City of Thomasville has announced the hiring of a new police chief.

Forecasters have issued a flash flood watch for counties across central North Carolina and said to expect heavy rain through Friday across most of the state.

Roxboro honors WWII veterans : From staff reports May 31, 2009 ROXBORO -- The citizens of Person County and the Rotary Club of Roxboro on Saturday honored the men and women who served in the military during World War II with the unveiling of a monument in Person County Courthouse Square witnessed by some 500 people.

Rhonda Morgan, vice president of ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions, a communications solutions provider, has announced that the company has installed a Mitel 3300 IP telephone system for Triangle Orthopaedic Associates, P.A. Apex, N.C. branch, located at 1031 W. Williams St.

The N.C. Department of Motor Vehicles is looking for applicants to operate the license plate agency in Yanceyville.

The letters started arriving when I was freshman at East Carolina University, in the fall of 1978.

Two men were shot at the Cornwallis Road public housing complex about 1:45 p.m. Wednesday.

The body of a man was found Saturday morning in woods near a Roxboro mobile home park.

The shooting happened around 6:15 p.m. Monday at Longhurst Park on Park Street, behind the Pine Ridge Apartments.

U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., told the Tarboro Rotary Club Thursday about his ideas for energy policy in this year's national budget.

By day, Ken Friedman directs a molecular genetics program; by night, he compiles N.C.'s lost musical gems Officially, Ken Friedman is the Director of Molecular Genetics for Laboratory Corporation of America, a Burlington, N.C.-based network of international medical labs with 28,000 employees.

Suspect in Person rape held BY KEITH UPCHURCH : The Herald-Sun Mar 13, 2009 ROXBORO -- A Person County man remained in the Person County Jail under a $1 million bond on Thursday after being charged in the rape ...

Mary L. Pettiford of Roxboro announces the engagement of her daughter, Freda Pettiford, to Robert S. Edwards, son of Lucy and Robert Edwards of Carrboro.

In the summer of 2006, North Carolina's probation system faced a variety of problems: more than 15,000 offenders who couldn't be found, job vacancies that piled more work on overburdened probation officers, and ...

Published: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 2:39 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 2:41 p.m. Progress Energy is teaming with the Electric Power Research Institute to examine the possibilities and ...

BY WILLIAM F. WEST DAILY DISPATCH WRITER Henderson Police Chief Keith Sidwell is requesting a 15-percent raise for his sworn officers, citing his personnel's increased workload, along with his problems with ...

The inauguration of President Barack Obama on Tuesday sparked celebration at Averett University's Student Center, inspiring one student to create a time capsule to mark the historic occasion.