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Beulah Boone Warren, 76, formerly of Washington, passed away in Presbyterian Hospital in Newark, NJ on Sunday, February 22,2015.
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 6:07 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Jacqueline Hayes Harris, of 606 W. 13th St., died Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, at home.
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 6:04 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Ray Wesley Bowman, age 71, a resident of 403 Cemetery Rd., Belhaven, died Thursday February 26, 2015 at his home.
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 5:58 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Sarah Adelaide Hollowell Rowe, age 89, a former resident of Aurora, died Thursday, February 26, 2015.
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 5:52 am
By: Announcements
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John Humphrey O'Neal was born on August 1, 1929 in Hyde County, NC to the late Preston and Nita Whitney O'Neal. "Bro", as he was affectionately known, departed this life on February 25, 2015.
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 5:48 am
By: Announcements
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North Carolina is one of the more aggressive states in the nation in licensing occupations. This is a significant impediment to freedom in a state that once boasted, and ought to be able to again, of being "First in Freedom."
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 5:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I'm writing this during a very cold, snowy day in central North Carolina, but will imagine that instead it's one of our summer heat waves. For several days in a row, the temperature has hit 99 degrees, and someone comments, "Well, this certainly ought to shut those global warming skeptics up!"
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 4:17 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Do you want to go to college but think you have waited too late to start this spring? Or do you want to pick up a class to complete your schedule?
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 4:11 am
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory has declared March 1-7 Severe Weather Preparedness Week in North Carolina, cautioning North Carolinians to practice how to be safe when thunderstorms and tornadoes threaten. While damaging storms and tornadoes can occur any time of the year, March through May is peak tornado sea
Published: Friday, February 27th, 2015 @ 6:06 pm
By: Chris Downey
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In a decision released Wednesday, a 6-3 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners violated federal antitrust laws by engaging in self-dealing in ordering service providers that do not have dental licenses to cease and desist from whitening...
Published: Friday, February 27th, 2015 @ 6:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For consecutive Tuesdays in February, winter weather forced closures and disrupted schedules at East Carolina University. After a winter storm brought approximately three inches of snow on Tuesday, Feb. 24, classes were cancelled from 3:30 p.m. until 10 a.m. on Wednesday.
Published: Friday, February 27th, 2015 @ 6:09 am
By: ECU News Services
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It is getting close to the end of Black History Month. I have not seen any articles about famous Black Americans.
Published: Friday, February 27th, 2015 @ 6:02 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Millie Adams, 75, 451 Bridge, Aurora died Monday, February 23, 2015 at Riverpoint Crest Nursing Center.
Published: Friday, February 27th, 2015 @ 1:36 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Willie F. Windley of 124 East Martin Luther King Jr, Dr. Washington, NC died Friday, February 20, 2015 at Home.
Published: Friday, February 27th, 2015 @ 1:33 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Bessie Moore Crawford, 86, resident of Greenfield Place Nursing Center, Greenville, NC, formerly of Blounts Creek died Tuesday, February 17, 2015.
Published: Friday, February 27th, 2015 @ 1:30 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Arnold Earl "Kym" Coward of 3215 Capital Blvd Raleigh, NC (formerly of Washington NC) died Monday, February 16, 2015 Wake Med Hospital Raleigh, NC.
Published: Friday, February 27th, 2015 @ 1:27 am
By: Announcements
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John H. O'Neal (Bro Rabbit), age 85, a resident of Pine Street, Pantego, NC died Wednesday, February 25, 2015.
Published: Friday, February 27th, 2015 @ 1:07 am
By: Announcements
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Rush Limbaugh used to have an “SUV update” parody segment, where he made fun of various drive-by reports that blamed actual automobiles — and NOT the people driving them — for various and sundry car accidents.
Published: Friday, February 27th, 2015 @ 12:53 am
By: Brant Clifton
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If one understands the military, or the quasi-military, which a well run sheriff's office is, one knows that rank is important, but mostly in a relative sense.
Published: Friday, February 27th, 2015 @ 12:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today introduced legislation to prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from overriding state and local municipal broadband laws.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 11:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Senator Bill Cook (R-District 1) and Senator Norman Sanderson (R-District 2) filed Senate Bill 113, on Tuesday, February 24, 2015, that gives the N.C. Ferry Division temporary authority to enter into contracts for the purchase of motor fuel at a guaranteed price.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 11:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Attorneys on both sides of the voucher issue made their case on Tuesday to the state's highest court, with Supreme Court justices considering a challenge to a Superior Court decision stating that the Opportunity Scholarship Program, offering tuition vouchers to low-income parents who removed...
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 11:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, a working group from the UNC system's Board of Governors drew national attention and student and faculty protest after it announced plans to discontinue three of the system's 237 centers and increase oversight of thirteen others.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 11:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Dr. Mark Iannettoni, professor and chief of general thoracic surgery for East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine and director of the new thoracic surgery residency program at Vidant Medical Center, has been honored nationally for his work with resident physicians.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 11:08 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Governor Pat McCrory briefed citizens from the State Emergency Operations Center Wednesday morning on the response to last night's snowfall across the state.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 10:26 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Last week, the News & Observer published an op-ed by Angela Scioli, a history teacher at Leesville Road High School in Raleigh and founder of Red4EdNC. The piece took aim at the Republican-led legislature for "no longer investing in our students." One of her main points was that things were so muc
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 10:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dr. Mark Iannettoni, professor and chief of general thoracic surgery for East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine and director of the new thoracic surgery residency program at Vidant Medical Center, has been honored nationally for his work with resident physicians.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 10:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) today released the following statement on Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 1:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Politicians love to use their power to dole out favors and privileges to politically-connected special interests. They also love to interfere with the economy, attempting to impose their preferences upon investors and consumers through a hodgepodge of taxpayer handouts and targeted tax breaks.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 5:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 4:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2011, the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission submitted a report forecasting sea level rise along the coast for the next three decades.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 4:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A trip to Niagara Falls in Canada.
Published: Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 @ 11:50 pm
By: David Winstead
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After a measure introduced in last year's legislative session allowing more investors to get in at the early stages of startup companies failed to become law, competing bills have been filed in the current session encouraging entrepreneurs to seek capital through options resembling...
Published: Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 @ 11:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) reintroduced H.R.1041-the Jamiel Shaw, II. Memorial Act--to require states to track and report crimes committed by illegal aliens to the FBI as a condition for receiving any funds from the Department of Homeland Security.
Published: Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 @ 11:37 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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