Edgecombe County News

Kaylyn Norville, 11, has followed in the footsteps of former Junior Girls Scouts in her troop by completing a service project that will help others, and earn her the Bronze Award.

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.

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

A man convicted in 2007 in the death of a Rocky Mount teenager trying to rob him and his wife will hear his case appealed Tuesday before the N.C. Supreme Court.

Font Size: Over fifty people have been arrested and millions of dollars worth of drugs seized in our state in what's being called one of the largest single U.S. strikes against Mexican drug cartels.

Two young men have been indicted for the July shooting of Wilson resident Brandon Reid Jones.

A group trying to keep the murders of six African American women in the spotlight marched in Rocky Mount Friday night.

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.

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

A guilty verdict for first-degree murder was reached in Edgecombe County Superior Court Tuesday, in the shooting death of a man last October near a Rocky Mount gas station.

A variety of local remembrance ceremonies are set to pay homage to veterans' service and sacrifice.

As many as 140 former Barcalounger plant workers could be eligible for federal cash payments for 2 1/2 years while they are enrolled in paid training for a new career.

The Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners business on Monday included approving debt service payments for school construction projects and listening to concerns about the Edgecombe County Landfill.

Challengers fared well Tuesday as voters trickled in and out of Twin Counties polling sites to choose new municipal leaders.

When Edgecombe County caregivers meet and discuss their situations, more bring up dealing with Alzheimer's disease patients than anything else.

The foundation managing half of North Carolina's share of the national tobacco settlement violated open meetings laws and could be better protected from investment risk and political influence, State Auditor Beth Wood's office said Monday.

Two people are facing drug charges in two separate cases in Rocky Mounty. George Perry was arrested just after 11:00 p.m. Friday at a home on Woodland Avenue.

After the surprise announcement was made Monday, Princeville Montessori School Principal Amy Marshall-Brown spent some time wrapping her head around the fact that she was selected as Edgecombe County Public Schools' Principal of the Year.

A funeral home owner said its her "human" feelings that made her want to host a memorial today for Elizabeth Jane Smallwood, whose remains were found in February.

She was missing for at least a year, but nobody seemed to notice. Even in February, after a prison work crew found the skeletal remains of a small-framed female in a thicket near U.S. 64, no one stepped forward to claim the body.