Police officers and firefighters received commendations for their response and assistance in a shooting last month while another officer was honored for helping two children in need.
Recovery can happen.
An audit of write-in ballots shows Chuck Peoples will be the fifth commissioner on the Halifax town board and Milton Armston will be the third commissioner on the Hobgood town board.
The Roanoke Rapids Police Department reported the following, according to Chief Chuck Hasty:
Three and a half pounds of marijuana was seized Monday night and the person allegedly selling from a residence on Gardner Drive near the old airport surrendered to authorities early this morning.
A man carrying a car to be scrapped was charged Friday with reportedly dumping gas onto a victim's yard on Grapevine Road outside Halifax.
A Roanoke Rapids man who was reportedly going to his workplace with a pill bottle filled with urine for a drug test Thursday was arrested for marijuana possession following a state Highway Patrol traffic stop for speeding.
