A request for City Manager Joseph Scherer to look into providing a 3 percent cost of living increase for employees could not only alter the city’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year but has changed the date of the public hearing for the draft financial plan.
A Hollister man was charged with three counts of statutory rape after the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office investigated a department of Social Services report on a juvenile who tested positive for pregnancy following a routine doctor’s visit.
A child sustained a broken elbow and a severe leg injury when struck by a vehicle on Roanoke Avenue Tuesday afternoon.
The Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District began work this morning to repair a broken 12-inch water line which led to the issuance of pressure advisory for its customers in the Gaston area.
Construction crews have arrived to repair a natural gas line which ruptured when an excavator struck it this morning.
