Whitakers News

If you are interested in the environment, you will want to visit Edgecombe County Memorial Library at 909 Main St.

Rocky Mount police are looking for an missing elderly woman who is endangered. There's been a statewide Silver Alert for Candy Mae Bullock, who is suffering from dementia or some other impairment.

Two Whitakers residents have been arrested on charges of running a major moonshine operation.

Two Whitakers, N.C. men have been charged with making moonshine, after a smoke plume lead authorities to their illegal distillery.

Thousands of dollars worth of moonshine and a stainless steel still, that's what state ALE agents say they discovered in Whitakers last week.

A 50-year-old Whitakers woman says a Nash County Department of Social Services case worker sexually assaulted her in his office last week.

Seven towns in Edgecombe County will hold races for board and mayoral seats in the Nov.

Two Edgecombe County men were taken into custody by Tarboro Police Thursday, in connection with an armed robbery of a Rocky Mount pawn shop on Wednesday.

Regina and Ricky Whitaker have claimed their $1 million lottery prize. The couple used their instant scratch-off state lottery winnings Tuesday to buy a second ticket that turned them into millionaires.

A 31-year-old convicted sex offender accused of murdering one of six Eastern North Carolina women killed over the past four years made his first court appearance Wednesday.

An arrest in the murder of one of five Rocky Mount women, whose bodies have been found outside of the city, was announced Tuesday by Edgecombe County Sheriff James Knight.

The Edgecombe County Rescue Squad broke ground for its two future emergency service facilities today in Pinetops and Whitakers.

May 2007 was a pivotal time in Jackie Wiggins' life. She spent most evenings that month scouring the streets searching for her adult daughter, Jackie Nikelia Thorpe, asking neighborhood friends if they'd seen her and pleading with police to put out an alert.

A fire-damaged and abandoned home sits only feet from well-kept homes on South Street in the Bloomer Hill community just outside Whitakers.

One person is dead, two other injured in Nash county after a shooting there Saturday night.

Authorities say more than 300 leads have come in since a task force was formed to investigate the deaths of five women in Edgecombe County.

An eastern North Carolina minister says he is willing to forgive his church's former treasurer, who is accused of taking more than $24,000 over more than two years.

Cummins Rocky Mount Engine plant workers said they hope to convince the Whitakers Town Council to pass a resolution to put political pressure on the company to hire back employees it laid off in March.

An eastern North Carolina minister says he is willing to forgive his church's former treasurer, who is accused of taking more than $24,000 over more than two years.

One Tarboro church said it forgives its former treasurer, who faced embezzlement charges Wednesday in Edgecombe County District Court.