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Items filtered by date: July 2017

Two couples gathered for a friendly game of cards are the victims in a deadly home invasion in the Glenview community Sunday.

Four people in the Glenview community were shot and killed in what Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp described as a home invasion.

Friday, 18 August 2017 19:27

Photo gallery: RRFD Fire Safety Fair

The Roanoke Rapids Fire Department's Fire Safety Fair saw a good turnout today as children took advantage of a water slide, practiced aiming a hose at Freddy the Flame and watched a puppet show on fire safety.

The Roanoke Rapids Police Department reported the following, according to Chief Chuck Hasty:

 

 

Friday, 18 August 2017 13:31

SCLC plans economic development summit

In January, some 150 children came to Oak Grove Baptist Church to hear about lineman scholarship opportunities.

Ties to a Patterson, New Jersey, heroin pipeline and a Scotland Neck drug trafficking organization are shown in a criminal complaint documenting the arrests of a Columbus County couple.

The Roanoke Rapids Fire Departments holds its third Safety Fair Friday in an coinciding with the last Fridays in the Park concert later that evening.

Roanoke Rapids police Chief Chuck Hasty confirmed a white nationalist stayed in a hotel and broke no laws and had no organizational meetings while in the city.

Thursday, 17 August 2017 14:05

RRHS band to preview halftime show Friday

The Roanoke Rapids High School Marching Yellow Jackets will preview its halftime performance for the year Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Aker’s Field.

A federal detainer has been placed on a Columbus County pair who were stopped in Scotland Neck Wednesday night, a stop which led to the seizure of 102 bricks of heroin.

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