Sunday, May 20, 2012
Students and staff across Pitt County Schools are preparing for end-of-grade tests that begin this week.
- Tackling a budget balancing act
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Funding education, protecting the community, keeping people healthy and generating jobs.
- League celebrates service to needy
Sunday, May 20, 2012
The Service League of Greenville celebrated 74 years of service to Pitt County on Wednesday at its annual luncheon at Rock Springs Center.
- PCC Notes: Everett honored
Sunday, May 20, 2012
WINTERVILLE — Pitt Community College administrators took time at graduation this month to show appreciation to an employee who has made outstanding contributions to the school and community for more than 20 years.
- ECU Notes: Students receive fellowships
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Six students from East Carolina University have received Schweitzer Fellowships for 2012-13.
- Roll Call: House OKs military budget
Sunday, May 20, 2012
WASHINGTON — Here’s how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending May 18.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
A single-engine plane crashed in the woods behind a County Home Road home Saturday afternoon and resulted in minor injuries, a State Highway Patrol official said.
- Pitt County Grand Jury
Sunday, May 20, 2012
The following people were indicted by a Pitt County grand jury the week of May 14. All information, including addresses, is from court records.
- Questions arise in jury selection
Saturday, May 19, 2012
No jurors officially were selected during the first two days of jury selection in the trial of a man accused of shooting his girlfriend and then setting her body on fire in 2009.
- Trial eyes microscopic details
Saturday, May 19, 2012
RALEIGH — The case against Jason Williford moved from the streets to the laboratory Friday, as forensic experts testified to the microscopic traces left behind at the crime scene — both on Kathy Taft’s body and in her bedding.
- Crime: Break-ins reported
Saturday, May 19, 2012
The Greenville Police Department issued reports on May 18 with the following details:
Break-ins, thefts
100 block Cherry Court Drive, 3-8:48 p.m.
- Update: Trial eyes evidence
Friday, May 18, 2012
RALEIGH — Crime scene analysts searching Jason Williford’s house found a pair of knives beneath a mattress in his bedroom, one with the handle sticking out, according to testimony Friday.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
According to Pitt County Youth Lacrosse President Steve Sullivan, planning for the 2013 East Carolina Youth Lacrosse League tournament will begin in the coming weeks.
- Peele: Stewart takes 2nd at amateur event
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Greenville’s Angela Stewart just missed out on claiming another major Carolinas tournament title last week, finishing second in the Senior Division of the 86th Women’s Carolinas Amateur held at Yeaman’s Hall Club in Hanahan, S.C.Stewart lost out in the final round to Patty Moore of Charlotte, who claimed her ninth senior title with the one-shot victory.
- Vikes eliminated by C.B. Aycock
Sunday, May 20, 2012
D.H. Conley intentionally walked C.B. Aycock softball standout Meredith Burroughs every time she stepped to the plate Saturday.
- Pirates reach NCAA Championships
Sunday, May 20, 2012
ATHENS, Ga. — The East Carolina men’s golf team secured its first-ever berth in the NCAA Division I Championships with a second-place finish at the NCAA Athens Regional on Saturday.
- I’ll Have Another wins Preakness
Sunday, May 20, 2012
BALTIMORE — I’ll Have Another overtook Bodemeister, blazing down the stretch to win the Preakness in the final strides Saturday and keep alive his hopes of winning the Triple Crown.
- Season ends for North Pitt
Saturday, May 19, 2012
BETHEL — In a season of many highs for the North Pitt baseball team, it picked a bad night to have a down game.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
In the spring of 2012, three foreign girls planned their escape from the city of Seongnam, South Korea.
- Grizzard: Campers will rough it at hotel
Sunday, May 20, 2012
I was at a church conference with my husband when I was shocked to hear one of the featured speakers say a four-letter word: camp.
- Rosemond: Attachment parenting is destructive propaganda
Sunday, May 20, 2012
The cover story in last week’s Time Magazine is all about “why attachment parenting drives some mothers to extremes — and how Dr.
- Ask Dr. K: Identifying rosacea triggers helps lessen its impact
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Dear Dr. K: I read your column on adult acne with great interest. For years, I thought I had adult acne, but when I finally saw a doctor, she diagnosed me with rosacea.
- Dear Abby: Fueling car as engine runs is taking dangerous risk
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Dear Abby: My father absolutely refuses to turn off the ignition when fueling his car, despite the warning signs at the pump.
- Hax: ‘Suck it up, Ma’ isn’t the tone girlfriend should take
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Q My boyfriend of over a year and I are going to be graduating with an associate’s in a couple of weeks.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Only days after Vidant Health Chief Executive Officer Dave McRae delivered the keynote address at East Carolina University’s spring commencement, the nonprofit he led since 1999 announced that he would step down effective July 1.
- Letter: Fewer do Relay for Life in Farmville
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Farmville had its 10th Relay for Life on May 11-12. I was really sad to see the number of teams and people that were there.
- Letter: Baseball blessings inspire gratitude
Sunday, May 20, 2012
For every player, you eventually play your last game.
- Fitzsimon: GOP dream world
Sunday, May 20, 2012
In a perfect world, this would be the legislative session where the leaders of the Republican General Assembly would take a break from their extremist agenda of the last 16 months and focus on the state’s actual problems instead of their narrow ideological pursuits.
- Hood: 'Vale of humility' falls
Sunday, May 20, 2012
North Carolina’s political culture is dysfunctional. No, I’m not just talking about sex scandals.
- Mooneyham: Losing TVs on death row
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Danny Hembree Jr. apparently fails to understand some basic aspects of his current circumstances.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
My little dog Ollie has a fondness for shoes. No, I haven’t caught him browsing online for discount Hush Puppies (that would be kind of awesome, actually).
- Grizzard: Campers will rough it at hotel
Sunday, May 20, 2012
I was at a church conference with my husband when I was shocked to hear one of the featured speakers say a four-letter word: camp.
- Rutledge: Basketball ego deflated
Saturday, May 19, 2012
One of the first times I shot basketball on the back patio with my oldest daughter, I skunked her unmercifully in a game of HORSE.
- Speller: Trying not to embarrass the kids
Monday, May 14, 2012
My son recently asked me, “Momma, have you ever been embarrassed?”
“Lots of times!” I told him. “Have you?” I asked.
- Clark: Book held Mother’s Day voices
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Kate Allen Clark, my grandmother, died when I was young. She was the only grandparent I ever knew and I was named for her and her mother.
- Kirk: Hitting 40 hurts
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Earlier this year, I turned 40. I wasn’t really fazed by the milestone birthday, since it’s only a number.
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