Two students representing Roanoke Rapids High School recently won highest honors in this year’s WordWright Challenge, a competition for American high school students requiring close reading and analysis of many different kinds of prose and poetry.
The Halifax County Sheriff’s Office is attempting to locate Latisha Northern for outstanding warrants for identity theft.
Meagan Colston and Elena Miller of Roanoke Rapids have been awarded the Girl Scout Silver Award by North Carolina Coastal Pines, which is the second highest achievement in Girl Scouting.
A Roanoke Rapids man who was reportedly going to his workplace with a pill bottle filled with urine for a drug test Thursday was arrested for marijuana possession following a state Highway Patrol traffic stop for speeding.
A Northampton County Sheriff's Office deputy was being treated for injuries after colliding with a tractor-trailer hauling lumber this evening.
