Two people were honored Saturday as trailblazers following the footsteps of Sarah Keys Evans — one posthumously for providing legal representation to the woman who refused to give up her on a bus stopover in Roanoke Rapids and the other to a 14-year-old advocate for children’s rights.
They call themselves the Radiant Rays — 10 girls who went through a five-week internship at the Center for Energy Education, an internship which rewarded them with $1,500 scholarships at the end of the program.
Two Halifax County high school students have each received $500 scholarships from the Boys 2 Men mentoring organization.
A New Jersey man died in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 Thursday afternoon.
The driver of a dump truck was airlifted to ECU Health in Greenville after the bed of his truck clipped overhead utility cables and then struck the Hedgepeth Road bridge Thursday morning.
