Halifax County News

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.

A teen from Farmville was arrested Monday, after deputies say they found two weapons in his vehicle, which was parked at a school.

A fugitive from another state was arrested late Monday night, but lawmen say he's been living in Eastern Carolina.

An expression of both alarm and wonderment crossed Diamond Lee's face as a tiny chick was placed in her opened hands.

A missing woman has prompted the state to issue a silver alert. Lawmen are asking for your help in finding 53 year-old Debra Jean Settles.

Lawmen say a deputy sheriff and rescue personnel were assaulted Sunday in Halifax County.

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

Roanoke Rapids police made an arrest Tuesday in the slaying of businessman Shelby Salmon.

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

Who is the person in the surveillance photo? Deputies in Halifax County want to know who is using a stolen bank card.

The Halifax County Sheriffa s Office is investigating a shooting at the Green Store on Hwy 48 outside Roanoke Rapids.

Lawmen are looking for two men in connection with a shooting in Halifax County. The Sheriff's Office is searching for 29-year-old Charles Hockaday from Roanoke Rapids and 23-year-old Alston Parker from Roanoke Rapids.

Kimberly Matthews was found by state troopers unconscious in her car that was parked along I-95 in Halifax County a week ago.

Powerful!A That was the one word that kept resounding in my mind as I interviewed an incredible lineup of talented and passionate women from the cast and crew of a oeMamaa s Pearls,a a play written by Halifax native Joan Whitlock and directed by Howard G. Brenda E. Harris plays a dual role as Mae Emma and her twin sister, Lillie Mae.

The widow of a New Jersey man killed during a home invasion in Halifax last Friday said her husband was motivated by mistaken belief that she and the homeowner had an affair 21 years ago.

Lumberton resident Carlton Burgess nursed a grudge against an old acquaintance for more than two decades before he decided to travel to North Carolina to seek his revenge, authorities said Monday.

Police say suspicions of an extra-marital affair drove a New Jersey man to North Carolina, and the confrontation that resulted ended in a shoot out.

Authorities say a New Jersey man has been killed after he forced his way into a North Carolina man's home.

A Halifax homeowner shot and killed an intruder doing a home invasion Thursday morning, according to the Halifax County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities in Wayne and Halifax counties are investigating a woman's report that she was kidnapped after picking up a hitchhiker in southern Wayne County.