Tarboro News

A prisoner was found hanged inside the Edgecombe County Detention Center Friday morning, apparently as a result of suicide.

The most interesting rumor I heard this week was that Tarboro Town Manager Sam Noble is "on the short list" for the city manager's job in New Bern.

Tarboro Town Council authorized the mayor to apply for a $675,000 federal Community Development Block Grant for Sara Lee Bakery during a brief meeting Monday night.

After losing her mother to cancer, Shelia Weeks, 61, was advised by her doctor to begin receiving mammograms when she was 36.

The Tarboro Clinic earned accreditation for its echocardiography laboratory tests this month.

Tarboro Town Council members will take on the town's top issues, such as the high unemployment rate and low economic progress, with some new additions to its ranks that already has made history.

The Edgecombe County Health Department is offering a H1N1 Flu Clinic at both of their locations in Tarboro and Rocky Mount from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

An 83-year-old Tarboro man died Thursday after a traffic accident, when police said he pulled out in front of an oncoming vehicle at the Speight Avenue and Western Boulevard intersection.

The Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office announced a major arrest Tuesday involving a national effort to curb a Mexican drug cartel's activities.

Deed Transfers recently recorded at the Edgecombe County Register of deeds Office.

Veterans Day will be acknowledged Wednesday with a ceremony at the Veterans Memorial on the Tarboro Town Common.

Wilson police have arrested one man in a recent smash and grab robbery at the Wilson mall and are searching for a second suspect.

Only one new face will appear on Conetoe's Board of Commissioners early next year.

A Tarboro business that began at a kitchen table 21 years ago has been sold to a Michigan cultural resources firm.

Doug Henry Chevrolet's ownership of Team Ford in Tarboro becomes official today.

Voters chose three new faces for the town's council Tuesday night. Challengers Taro Knight, Gerrelene Walker and Candis B. Owens defeated incumbents Buck Price, John Jenkins II and Roy Gray on Tuesday evening, during Tarboro's Ward 1, 5 and 7 town council races.

All the candidates in Tarboro's upcoming election Tuesday are optimistic. And why not? Each one reports their campaigning is going well.

A Tarboro High School student faces two misdemeanor charges, after police said he brought a box cutter onto the school campus Thursday.

An elderly couple was airlifted to Pitt County Memorial Hospital after sustaining injuries in a serious accident Friday afternoon on U.S. 301 near Elm City.

Police are looking for a suspect who shot a man on Bradley Avenue in Tarboro early Saturday morning.