Mary Lee Vaughan Barnes, 65, of Rocky Mount, and formerly of Roanoke Rapids,  died Friday, December 30, 2011.

A summer long multi-jurisdictional task force operation culminated today in Scotland Neck with the arrests of 10 people alleged to be street level and upper level drug dealers.

Pauline E. Lukes, age 90, of Marietta,GA  passed away Thursday, December 29, 2011.

While people are bound to celebrate New Year's Eve regardless of the day it falls on, the state Highway Patrol expects more people to be out because it falls on a Saturday.

William Roland Massey III was served a warrant from the Halifax County Sheriff's Office last month in Northampton County where he lives for a felony count of cutting or removing another's timber.

The last suspect wanted in a fatal home invasion last week turned himself in today and was jailed on $200,000 bond.

A Christmas morning stabbing landed a 38-year-old Roanoke Rapids man in jail following an argument with the victim at a local motel.

A 24-year-old Roanoke Rapids man was charged with burglary and kicking officers and spitting at EMS workers Tuesday morning while reportedly intoxicated.

Mary Lillian Gurley, 92, of Roanoke Rapids died Sunday December 25, 2011 at Hampton Manor in Gaston.

Petty Officer First Class Jimmie David “J. D.” Wall, U. S. Navy Retired, died Saturday, December 24, 2011, at University Health Systems Inpatient Hospice in Greenville.