A 17-year-old Roanoke Rapids boy was charged in an April 8 larceny, according to the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office.

Four of the men charged in a Virginia Beach motel robbery now face charges in the armed robbery of the Village Grocery at the intersection of Highway 48 and Smith Church Road, along with another man not tied to the Virginia crime.

Roanoke Rapids police are looking for two people who on April 10 allegedly used a stolen credit card to load Visa gift cards to make more than $1,200 in purchases from Wal-Mart.

A 25-year-old Greenville man has been charged with engaging in sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl.

Billy Wright “Sam” Jones, 74, of Highway 48, died Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount.

Two men from Roanoke Rapids, one from Garysburg and one from Emporia are being held in Virginia Beach following a morning motel robbery, a Norfolk TV station is reporting.

Lula Mae Dickens Taylor Loflin, 88, loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and sister, of the Darlington community, died Monday, April 23, 2012 at Halifax Regional Medical Center.

The Halifax County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a sex crime against a child Sunday and arrested a 52-year-old man.

Most of the items seized from 84 Jefferson Street last week are common to dogfighting and have little use elsewhere, the nation’s foremost expert on animal fighting issues said today.

The search warrant application that led to the arrest of Kenneth Brooks on dog baiting and city ordinance violations was not only based on Wednesday’s observations by Roanoke Rapids police but an encounter in 2009 with the man.