Charles Edward Hockaday, who goes by the street name of Oopsie, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts related to the distribution of crack cocaine.

WRAL is reporting today an ambulance service in Roanoke Rapids has agreed to pay the state and federal governments $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over allegedly fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims.

Photo of khat plants from the U.S. Department of Justice.

A stop for a motor vehicle violation may have led the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office to a first today — the seizure of 28 grams of khat, a flowering evergreen native to Africa.