The masked man found dead near a Sunday night apparent home invasion crime scene has been identified as 24-year-old Monte L. Hines, the Halifax County Sheriff's Office reported this afternoon.
The murder of a Roanoke Rapids man Sunday night is believed to be related to a home invasion in which the resident and his assailant were both killed.
A Roanoke Rapids man was found shot to death Sunday night and as of this morning the Halifax County Sheriff's Office is investigating the discovery of the body of a man wearing a mask in the same area.
A Roanoke Rapids man was charged today in a 2012 breaking and entering in which a gun and a lockbox was stolen.
The Halifax County Sheriff's Office is giving people a chance to rid their medicine cabinets of expired and unused prescription medications.
For Halifax County Sheriff's Office Deputy Matt Brown, it was a way to have a little fun on his day off, rounding up former teachers and locking them up in a makeshift jail at the Girl Scout hut on Hamilton Street.
The arrest of Raymond Michael Baker today involved the theft of several thousand pounds of copper stolen from a construction site on the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University, campus police said this afternoon.
A Roanoke Rapids man currently serving probation for sending lewd pictures to a boy is in more trouble with the law — this time North Carolina State University Police.
Charges have been dismissed against two people, one the victim in a breaking and entering case allegedly tied to the theft of alcohol and pills, court records show.
No charges will be filed in a crash this morning that claimed the life of a Federal Express team driver.
