Nash County News

Two tight Twin Counties municipal races were close enough Tuesday for a recount, election officials said, but the losing candidates in each race have yet to call for a review of ballots.

An officer with 24 years of law enforcement experience now leads the Sharpsburg Police Department.

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

The brouhaha over the pending release of 27 North Carolina inmates with violent pasts is also shining a light on the state's prison work release program.

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

A Rocky Mount man is in jail for allegedly shooting a passenger in his car during an argument with the man early Sunday morning.

The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday upheld a ruling to throw out a confession by a DeKalb County murder defendant who contended he was coerced by authorities.

School choice advocates have brought a lawsuit in North Carolina seeking funding equity in public education.

Responding to a tip e-mailed to Rocky Mount police, Nash County deputies on Friday arrested two men accused of defrauding at least one woman in a parking lot.

Elizabeth Sherrill, right, president of the N.C. Society of Historians, presents to Doris Worthington, a Rocky Mount native and editor of 'The Ties that Bind ... The John E. Todd and Rosa Lee Matthews Story,a an award for the family history book at a recent annual meeting of the society.

For more than a week, a local gun shop owner has been under scrutiny regarding certain advertisements outside his front door.

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.

A man released from jail in August after serving time for a probation violation was arrested Sunday morning and charged with trying to break into businesses and residences in Elm City.

Six Nash County towns will hold contested races for town boards in the Nov. 3 election.

Nash County fire authorities still aren't sure what caused a home explosion two months ago that left a woman with burns on more than half her body.

Early voting is under way for a handful of contested municipal races throughout the Twin Counties.

While efforts in Edgecombe County increased to expose the community to Hispanic culture over the last month, a teen group has been working since February to create awareness.

Emily King has been praying for closure, she said, but her son's body at the bottom of a channel wasn't the closure she had hoped for.

He's charged with trafficking methadone, lortab, muscle relaxers, oxycodone and percocet.

Authorities believe they found Tuesday morning the body of a man missing for 4-1/2 years.