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Halifax and Northeast-Hobgood will host 1st round state playoffs
The North Carolina Independent School Athletic Association (NCISAA) 8 man football 1A State Championship brackets have been released. Halifax will be the #1 seed hosting #4 Bethel Christian in the...
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Task force participates in Drug Take Back Day
Hydrocodone, Oxycodone and Alprazolam were among the controlled substances collected Saturday as the City County Drug Task Force participated in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 14th National...
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SAR recognizes Eagle recipient
Harry Jonathan Crawford Jr. was recently awarded the rank of Eagle Scout during a Court of Honor held by Troop 144 of Roanoke Rapids. The ceremony was conducted by Troop 144 Charter Organization...
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Henry Earl 'Pete' Hall
Henry Earl “Pete” Hall of Gaston, NC, on October 28, 2017 went home to be with his lord and savior Jesus Christ surrounded by his family. He was born on, April 26, 1951, in Roanoke Rapids, NC, son of...
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Two more sentenced in Cambridge murder
Two more men took guilty pleas today in the 2015 murder of Jarshamel Cambridge in Enfield. Jequan Kimble and Daquan Marrow both received supervised probation of 36 months after pleading to a count of...
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Museum to honor Pulley
The Roanoke Valley Veteran’s Museum will honor Michael A. Pulley for the month of November. A ceremony in his honor will take place at center court at Becker Village Mall Saturday at 11 a.m. This event...
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Lucille Rook Dickens
Lucille Rook Dickens, age 96, of Roanoke Rapids, died Tuesday, October 31, 2017. She was born in Hopewell, Virginia,and attended Women’s College, Greensboro, NC (now- UNC -G). She was a member of...
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Photo gallery: Halloween '17
From Doyle Field to Chaloner Recreation Center, the city helped children and their parents celebrate Halloween this evening with a trunk-or-treat and party. {gallery}halloween17{/gallery}
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Council meeting Monday to consider theater sale
Roanoke Rapids City Council Monday will consider an offer to purchase the theater. A notice was sent out this morning saying council will meet at 5:15 p.m. at Lloyd Andrews City Meeting Hall for the...
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Helen Nicholson Hargrave
Helen Nicholson Hargrave, 87, of Roanoke Rapids, died Tuesday, October 31, 2017, at Halifax Regional Medical Center. She was born in Halifax County, daughter of the late James G. Nicholson and Lucy...
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Men's soccer Yellow Jackets advance in State play-offs
The Roanoke Rapids High School Men's soccer team advances in the first round of the 2A NCHSIAA State Soccer Championship Wednesday night at Hoyle field. RRHS 5 Heide Trask 0 Roanoke Rapids goals by:...
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Middle school football results from November 1
The Chaloner Yellow Jackets defeated Gaston Middle School by a score of 34 to 16 Wednesday CMS 20-14-0-0 Final 34 GMS 0-0-8-8 Final 16 Chaloner Offense: Rushing Players...
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Teen succumbs to injuries sustained in Wednesday crash
A 19-year-old Enfield girl died this morning from injuries sustained in a single-vehicle crash outside Jackson Wednesday. According to a preliminary report by Trooper D.L. Edwards of the state Highway...
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Simms, Yancy won't get same plea deal as other Cambridge defendants
Matthew Simms and Taphil Yancy will not receive the same plea deal four other defendants in the 2015 murder of Jarshamel Cambridge have received. The reason, Assistant District Attorney Keith Werner...
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State to proceed with first-degree murder counts in farm worker death
Two people charged in the May murder of a Littleton area farmhand will be prosecuted on first-degree murder charges, the state announced today in Halifax County Superior Court. Assistant District...
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Two charged in Carter, Oak street shootings
Two people have been arrested for shootings which occurred on Carter and Oak streets last week. Chief Chuck Hasty said investigators continue to determine motive. In a statement he said on Wednesday...
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Alcohol used suspected in early morning Gaston crash
Alcohol use is suspected and powdered cocaine was found in a vehicle involved in a crash on Highway 46 in Gaston early this morning. Trooper S.R. Corn of the state Highway Patrol said Javonte Alvone’...
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Randolph-Macon preseason reanked 4th with return of Kelly Williams
SALEM, Va. – The Randolph-Macon Women's Basketball ranks 4th coming into the 2017-2018 campaign, in voting by the Old Dominion Athletic Conference head coaches and as announced by the league office...
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What a year ECU's Pratt is having
East Carolina University football Pirates Junior student Caleb Pratt, a Roanoke Rapids native and former Yellow Jacket football standout has moved a top of his game. After eight games, Pratt has moved...
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Task force levies trafficking counts in separate raids
Two major drug busts Thursday ended with trafficking arrests. The arrests include a Littleton area man who already has pending court dates in two previous cocaine trafficking arrests and the arrest of...
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