The city's parks and recreation department will be able to broaden its plans for a skateboard and BMX park at T.J. Davis following the announcement it was awarded a Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust grant.
Two Scotland Neck men, one a ringleader in a thriving drug business, are among six people sentenced in a heroin and crack cocaine distribution conspiracy in the Rocky Mount area.
Law enforcement is now trying to trace the source of a bomb threat at Kipp this morning, according to the Gaston Police Department.
A search continues at Kipp in Gaston after a report of multiple bombs planted at the school was received this morning.
The Halifax County Branch of the NACCP says it will closely monitor an investigation into the death of a Virginia man who was in police custody Saturday night.
A schedule has been set in court proceedings for the so-called Rockfish 15, according to federal records.
The Roanoke Rapids Police Department reported the following, according to Chief Chuck Hasty:
The State Bureau of Investigation has been called in to investigate the death of a Virginia man while in police custody Saturday night.
A second person charged in the Operation Rockfish police corruption case will be allowed pretrial release, according to the docket sheet contained in the federal court record.
A scam in which an elderly woman in the Roanoke Rapids area lost more than $1,000 was reported this week, according to the Halifax County Sheriff's Office.
