The Roanoke Rapids Police Department charged a couple Wednesday with felony child abuse and obstruction of justice in a case where a 4-year-old child sustained an arm injury from handling a weapon that was left within his reach.
The Halifax County Health Department will return to monthly COVID-19 reports as it sees a decrease in the number of positive cases.
A 5-year-old child is in stable condition and has been airlifted to Greenville after he was shot this afternoon in a business parking lot off Premier Boulevard.
An ex-Marine who went AWOL and killed a Hollister man as well as his own grandmother in 2018 will spend 36 years to 45.25 years in prison after agreeing to a plea bargain to second-degree murder in both the cases.
A Weldon man was charged Monday with the attempted break-in of a business Saturday night.
