A team of volunteers worked early Saturday morning on what was a second workday of transforming, in stages, the interior of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2057 off N.C. 97 southwest of Rocky Mount.
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A Miami area man was ordered to serve more than 12 years in federal prison in connection with a multi-state illegal drug operation that reached into Nash County, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Raleigh said in a Tuesday news release.
N.C. Wesleyan University recently welcomed five new trustees to the university's Board of Trustees.
Republican budget writers in the N.C. General Assembly rolled out a 634-page spending plan chock-full of special provisions and policy changes with limited time for review before the first planned vote on the $34 billion package.
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A former Rocky Mount income tax preparer was recently ordered to serve two years in federal prison and to make nearly $3.1 million in restitution to the federal Internal Revenue Service for aiding and assisting in the preparation of bogus tax returns, authorities said.
Though the city-sponsored Fourth of July celebrations have been suspended in Rocky Mount due to ongoing financial concerns, two Twin Counties towns are going all out to ensure Independence Day festivities have something to offer everyone.
Wendy Mitchell on Thursday had some feedback for the Imperial Centre for the Arts and Sciences, which has been the scene of an ongoing approximately $3.5 million renovation over the past several months.
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