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A Roanoke Rapids woman was charged Monday with two counts of child abuse and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile after allegedly leaving her two children in a motel room while she was drunk.
A Roanoke Rapids woman was charged Monday with two counts of child abuse and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile after allegedly leaving her two children in a motel room while she was drunk.
With a suppression case in one with similar circumstances now decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, the state has set a trial date for a Roanoke Rapids man accused of killing an elderly woman by setting fire to a trailer in 2007.
The state will announce later this month whether it intends to seek the death penalty against Tony Maurice Gorham in the murders of Maxine McCrary and Nancy Burgess.
The state will not seek the death penalty against Richard Demello in the March 28 murder of Michael Wayne Davis, Halifax County District Attorney Melissa Pelfrey said in court today.
Lake Gaston has some new residents as of Tuesday morning.
Approximately 7,350 grass carp were stocked in the lake early Tuesday morning, 50 percent at Granite Hall Shores and 25 percent each at Songbird and Big Stonehouse creeks.
