A vivid memory from Nichole Warren’s time in middle school was the image of students just a little older than she was being escorted out of a high school where their classmates had been shot to death.
A quarter century after two gunmen shot and killed 12 fellow students and a teacher at their Colorado high school, Pitt County law enforcement said the lessons of that day remain a poignant reminder of a need for readiness and willingness to react in a crisis.
An award-winning documentary that explores woes wreaked by water in one of eastern North Carolina’s historic towns is set to hit television and streaming platforms on Earth Day.
Greenville Utilities Board of Commissioners has awarded a $1.5 million contract to a Holly Springs company to build a solar farm that will supply power to local subscribers.
The murder trial of a Greenville man who called police to say he killed his wife in 2022 is set to begin on Monday.
An 18-year-old was charged with driving while impaired last week after he almost rear-ended another vehicle on Memorial Drive, reports show.
Prepare to be boarded, Greenville. Even more swashbucklers are setting sail for the 17th annual PirateFest.
The East Carolina University Board of Trustees on April 12 approved the appointment of Nicole Bromfield as dean of the College of Health and Human Performance and Debra L. Jackson as dean of the Graduate School, the university announced. Their appointments are effective July 1.
Earth Day: A Time for Science and the Sierra Club’s Cypress Group is hosting a free Earth Day celebration from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at 949 Contentnea Lane, Grifton, with hiking, kayaking, an eco-friendly market, hands-on activities, demonstrations, food trucks and live musical performances.
WINTERVILLE — Pitt Community College is inviting prospective learners and their families to campus for an April 27 open house that will highlight its many programs and services.
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The people who breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are being held accountable, and attempts to rebrand them as patriotic choirboys are a sign of the bizarre political times. Yet is it unduly stretching the law to prosecute Jan. 6 rioters using the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002?
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The local chapter of the Sierra Club is partnering with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences to host a free, family-friendly Earth Day celebration including nature, music, and food at the Contentnea Creek site in Grifton, A Time for Science.
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With actors who get stuck on their lines, doors that get stuck on the set, walls that won’t stand up and a corpse that won’t lie down, “The Play That Goes Wrong” is a stage manager’s nightmare. But it’s a comedy lover’s dream.
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Former President Donald Trump is campaigning in North Carolina as he juggles legal troubles and his rematch against President Joe Biden. Trump’s evening stop in the coastal city of Wilmington on Saturday marks his first rally since his criminal hush money trial began this week with jury selection in Manhattan. The occasion offers the former president a fresh chance to amplify claims that his multiple pending indictments are an establishment conspiracy to take him down –- and, by extension, squelch the voters who first elected him eight years ago.
A video of people pulling bear cubs from a tree in North Carolina has prompted an investigation, but a state official says no charges will be filed. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission says staff responded to a report of people harassing bear cubs at an Asheville apartment complex on Tuesday. Staffers learned that the two cubs escaped after one bit a person. Officials say one cub was found later in a retention pond but the second wasn't found. In the video, people are not only seen pulling cubs from a tree, but one person poses for a photo while holding one of the wild animals, then drops the cub, who runs for a nearby fence.
Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The cases are detailed in federal documents obtained by The Associated Press and raise serious questions about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the U.S. Federal law requires emergency rooms to stabilize patients who are in active labor and provide a medical transfer to another hospital if they don’t have the staff or resources to treat them. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next week in an Idaho case that could weaken those federal protections.
RALEIGH — The future of diversity, equity and inclusion staff jobs in North Carolina’s public university system could be at stake after a five-person committee swiftly voted to repeal a key policy Wednesday.
The Sheetz convenience store chain has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Sheetz Inc. discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed a criminal background check. President Joe Biden stopped by a Sheetz for snacks this week while campaigning in Pennsylvania. Sheetz is based in the state and also has stores in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and North Carolina. The privately run family-owned company says it “does not tolerate discrimination of any kind.”
North Carolina's top election administrator says the state's new photo voter identification mandate has been rolled out successfully but knows that challenges await in the fall election. Karen Brinson Bell addressed legislators on Wednesday. Her presentation said that nearly everyone who voted in person in last month’s North Carolina’s primary showed a qualifying photo identification. The primary marked the first statewide election that the photo ID mandate approved in 2018 by the Republican-controlled General Assembly was implemented. But roughly three times as many people could vote in the November general election. And it's unclear how many people lacking an ID just didn't try to vote in the primary.
A North Carolina appeals court says Gov. Roy Cooper's executive orders to keep bars closed during the COVID-19 pandemic while allowing restaurants that also serve alcohol to reopen were “illogical.” A state Court of Appeals panel ruled unanimously Tuesday that a trial judge erred when he rejected claims by the North Carolina Bar and Tavern Association and private bars that their constitutional rights to earn a living and for equal treatment under the law had been violated. Cooper's office defended state actions during the pandemic. The state Supreme Court could now hear the case. It also could return to trial on the issue of monetary damages.
The Biden administration is enlisting officials in 15 states to help enforce consumer-protection laws covering air travel. The U.S. Department of Transportation said Tuesday that it will give the states power to investigate complaints about airlines and ticket sellers, and then refer cases to the federal government for enforcement. Under U.S. law, only the federal government can regulate consumer-protection laws covering airlines. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says the agreement is legal. He's touting it as a way to increase protection for airline customers. Buttigieg pointed to travelers whose flights are canceled and then must wait days for another flight or pay more to fly home on another airline.
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Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza city of Rafah kills at least 9 Palestinians, including 6 children
Gaza hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the territory's southernmost city of Rafah has killed at least nine people, six of them children. The strike late Friday came as Israel pursues its nearly seven-month offensive against the Hamas militant group in Gaza. The war has led to a dramatic escalation of tensions in an already volatile Middle East. Rafah currently hosts more than half of Gaza’s total population of about 2.3 million people, most displaced by fighting elsewhere. The Israeli government says it intends to push a ground offensive into the city, where it says Hamas is currently holed up.
A man who doused himself in an accelerant and set himself on fire outside the courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial has died. The New York City Police Department said early Saturday that the man was declared dead by staff at an area hospital. Officials and witnesses say the man was in Collect Pond Park around 1:30 p.m. Friday when he took out pamphlets espousing conspiracy theories, tossed them around, then doused himself in an accelerant and set himself on fire. A large number of police officers were nearby when it happened. Some officers and bystanders rushed to the aid of the man, who was hospitalized in critical condition.
DENVER (AP) — A girl who wrote to God in her diaries, a boy with learning disabilities who was just learning to like who he was and a teen who would spend every free minute fishing were among the 13 victims of the Columbine High School shooting remembered during a vigil Friday on the eve of …
Officials in Thailand say about 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand as fresh fighting erupted at a border town that has recently been captured by ethnic guerillas. Fighters from the Karen ethnic minority last week captured the last of the Myanmar army’s outposts in and around Myawaddy, which is connected to Thailand by two bridges. Police say the latest clashes were triggered when the Karen guerillas launched an attack against Myanmar troops who were hiding near the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge, a major crossing point for trade with Thailand. The fall of Myawaddy is a major setback for the military that seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021.
Investments in public preschool have helped many parents through a child care crisis, in which quality options for early learners are often scarce and unaffordable. But some parents say the programs don't work for them. Some public preschools lack an all-day option. No state has a more ambitious plan for universal preschool than California, which plans to extend eligibility for so-called “transitional kindergarten” to all 4-year-olds by fall 2025. But even in California, not all schools hosting transitional kindergarten offer child care before or after instruction.
Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining the United Auto Workers union, boosting the UAW's nationwide effort to organize nonunion factories. The union wound up getting 73% of the ballots cast in an election run by the National Labor Relations Board that ended Friday. Twice in recent years, workers at the Chattanooga plant have rejected union membership. But this time, they voted convincingly for the UAW, which is operating under new leadership directly elected by members for the first time and basking in a successful confrontation with Detroit’s major automakers.
Former President Donald Trump is campaigning in North Carolina as he juggles legal troubles and his rematch against President Joe Biden. Trump’s evening stop in the coastal city of Wilmington on Saturday marks his first rally since his criminal hush money trial began this week with jury selection in Manhattan. The occasion offers the former president a fresh chance to amplify claims that his multiple pending indictments are an establishment conspiracy to take him down –- and, by extension, squelch the voters who first elected him eight years ago.
They call it Okap, home to Haiti’s kings, emancipated slaves and revolutionaries. Sitting on Haiti’s shimmering north coast, the city of Cap-Haïtien was abandoned as a capital during the waning years of the French colonial era and again when the Kingdom of Haiti fell after its king died by suicide and his teenage son was slain. Now, the city once known as the Paris of the Antilles is on the brink of becoming what some say is Haiti’s de facto capital as Port-au-Prince crumbles under powerful gangs.
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