The Halifax County Sheriff’s Office reported the following, according to Chief Deputy Scott Hall:
Tuesday night kicks off a Christmas celebration in Halifax which culminates with next week’s Christmas in Halifax event at the Historic Site and the town’s annual Christmas parade.
Three historic towns — Edenton, Halifax and Warrenton — have entered a joint effort to market and promote themselves as connected tourist destinations under the Discover History Worth Repeating program.
A trooper formerly assigned to Roanoke Rapids and now working in Rocky Mount will be one of several recipients for awards during a ceremony Tuesday in Raleigh.
Roanoke Rapids police Wednesday arrested a man allegedly responsible for a 2010 vehicle breaking and entering by using a partial fingerprint taken from the original crime scene.
A 14-year-old Northwest Halifax High School student with help from his mother pulled an elderly woman from a creek this afternoon on Highway 903.
A 52-year-old Roanoke Rapids woman died in a head-on collision on Highway 125 this morning.
The City County Drug Task Force this afternoon cited a man in the Carolina Rest Home Road area for marijuana possession.
Roanoke Rapids firefighters saved a house from possible total loss today after responding to a kitchen fire in the 500 block of Washington Street.
Local law enforcement officers and those from across the region gathered at the law enforcement memorial in Centennial Park to remember Champ, who was partnered with Roanoke Rapids Master Officer Gerald Morris since October of last year.
