The Roanoke Rapids Parks and Recreation Department will apply for two grants to fund the Chaloner Recreation Center portion of the Highway 158 Masterplan.
Evidence in the first full day of testimony shows Marquis Whitmore was traveling between 69 to 72 miles per hour when he crashed his vehicle into a Honda driven by a 25-year-old Roanoke Rapids woman who later died from the injuries she sustained.
Halifax County School Board members and commissioners were the first Monday afternoon to begin discussions designed to update school capital plans.
Marquis Whitmore this afternoon opted to stand trial for the charges lodged against him in the December 2014 traffic death of Leslie Fishel.
The twenty-six year old Halifax County Native Brooke Simpson performed her first live concert post "The Voice" Saturday night in Weldon at Halifax Community College "The Center".
The first Saturday of every month novice and experienced quilters lose themselves in color, swatches of fabric, needle and thread.
A failed catalytic converter on a vehicle Friday sparked a series of grass and brush fires in the Wright Road and Five Points areas.
Officials today welcomed the addition of a new business to Roanoke Rapids and praised its owner for her decision to come home to open it.