The city passed on a leaseback proposal last year that would have repaid the $23 million Music and Entertainment District Special Revenue Bonds on the Roanoke Rapids Theatre, Mayor Emery Doughtie confirmed this morning.
John White has decided to accept the mayor's seat after winning it through write-in ballots last Tuesday while also winning the town board seat he filed for in Halifax.
The man charged in a Monday hit and run in which two pedestrians were killed allegedly concocted a story he was robbed and beaten as a way to account for the injuries he sustained in the crash.
In a year, John Taylor has gone from fighting for his life on the side of the shoulder of Interstate 95 to fighting to live.
Charles Edward Hockaday, who goes by the street name of Oopsie, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts related to the distribution of crack cocaine.
