Incumbent Scotland Neck Mayor James Mills, who will be served an arrest warrant for failure to appear in court, was declared the winner in last Tuesday’s special election.
On the day after votes are canvassed in the Scotland Neck election, the town’s current mayor, James E. Mills Sr., will be served an order for arrest Wednesday for failure to appear in court for a 2009 driving while license revoked charge.
Reprinted with permission from the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald
Two men are behind bars and authorities are seeking at least one other person in connection with a robbery here last week.
Reprinted with permission from the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald
Authorities in Northampton County have made an arrest in an incident that allegedly took place five years ago.
City council will most likely call a special meeting Thursday or Friday to discuss Lafayette Gatling’s late payment on the Roanoke Rapids Theatre.
Neither. That was Weldon fire Chief Rusty Bolt’s response when board member Earl Smith asked him which station he would prefer to lose.
Weldon town commissioners today began working on the upcoming fiscal year budget with a directive from Mayor Julia Meacham for each department to cut its budget 3 percent.
Pete Luter’s life was about jumping, friends recalled today.
“He left this world doing what he loved and cherished,” said longtime friend J.B. Smith, who was with Luter when he formed a skydiving club in Roanoke Rapids around 1965.
This week Weldon got rid of two buildings the town considers eyesores — the Dickens Hux building by heavy machinery and today the old funeral home by fire.
They call them Skittle parties, multicolored pills strewn on a table and you choose your favorite color and take them to see what happens.
A North Carolina man was sentenced today to 27 years to life in state prison for murdering an Orange County fortune teller and her daughter. Phillipe Zamora, 55, Roanoke Rapids, NC, pleaded guilty April 14, 2009, to two felony counts of first degree murder.
It was called to my attention that the number I gave at our City Council Retreat was low for Health Insurance for the year 2006.
