The Roanoke Valley Southern Christian Leadership Conference with members of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity laid the wreath honoring the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. at the front of his statue in King Park in Roanoke Rapids this afternoon.
The Roanoke Rapids Police Department is investigating a shooting death which occurred at Windchase Apartments around 11 p.m. Saturday.
An additional death related to the novel coronavirus is from the Roanoke Rapids area ZIP code, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Services.
A Roanoke Rapids woman faces cocaine counts following a traffic stop Wednesday in the area of Highway 158 and Smith Church Road.
Former Roanoke Rapids police Chief Chuck Hasty is no longer being sued as an individual in a lawsuit lodged against him, the city and its police department.
