Scotland Neck News

No one was seriously injured, but Batts Chapel Missionary Baptist Church was left with interior and exterior damage after a car ran into it early Sunday morning.

When Agent C.T. Parker Jr. saw smoke rising from an old tin-walled barn in Nash County, N.C., last month, he knew he was about to close a case he'd been working on for nearly four years.

The Halifax County Sheriff's Office says a farm tractor has been recovered nearly three years after it was stolen.

An arrest has been made in a break-in that took place earlier this year in the east.

The Village Gallery will feature the works of Morehead City artist Mandy Johnson during October.

One of the shooting victims was air lifted to Pitt County Memorial Hospital while another was taken there with head injuries from a fall.

It was the best of times and the worst of times for Lane Anderson. The day had finally arrived for the Tarboro woman's marriage to Brett Taylor.

Milton Fields, the incoming 2009-10 president of Rocky Mount Kiwanis Club and Jon Wiggs, the 2010-11 president-elect, recently attended the 89th annual convention of the club's Carolinas District at the Sheraton Imperial in Research Triangle Park.

A Halifax County woman is behind bars after sheriff deputies say she attacked a man with an axe handle.

Carla Taylor from Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park & Eco-Center shows a domestic duck to children Wednesday at Braswell Memorial Library as part of the summer reading program.

A 29-year-old man is facing multiple rape charges after his arrest Wednesday. Halifax County deputies say Douglas Smith of Scotland Neck is charged with statutory rape of a 14-year-old, two counts of statutory rape of a 15-year-old and statutory sex offense with a 15-year-old. Deputies say the girl was raped by Smith, who they say was a long-time ...

A Scotland Neck man, in what authorities on Monday declared a murder-suicide, shot and killed his 34-year-old wife Saturday before turning the gun on himself.

Halifax County officials say a husband killed his wife and then took his own life Saturday.

A Scotland Neck man shot and killed his 34-year-old wife before turning the gun on himself early Saturday, according to the Halifax County Sheriff's Office.

The way Ronnie Waters tells it, he pointed at a map, bought a bus ticket and left Tarboro with his guitar and $40 in his pocket.

Just as the doors opened on May 7 at Braswell Memorial Library, the whiff of popcorn greeted the first of more than 200 senior citizens who attended the library's Senior Fair Day.

Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park in Scotland Neck hatched its first lesser flamingo chick on May 3, and the long-legged pink parents are very proud.

" It's a place where one eastern North Carolina tradition meets another. - Carolina-style barbecue and beach music will join forces on Saturday, May 23 as the St.

They came from all over - Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey - and even though they were just passing through, they all took a little bit of North Carolina with them.

The new church at 214 2nd St. in Pinetops will hold services on the second and third Sundays of each month at 11 a.m. Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Star Missionary Baptist Mother's Day will be observed at 11 a.m. on May 10.