The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction is seeking schools and fiscally responsible community organizations to serve as sponsors for Summer Nutrition Programs in 2025 to help ensure children who have limited access to food at home get the educational enrichment and nutritious meals they need for optimal growth, development and overall well-being.
Counsel for Umel Jackson as well as the federal government need more time to contemplate a resolution to the case and his attorney is expected to introduce a motion requesting a mental health evaluation, according to documents filed earlier this month.
A Halifax County School system educator is among the North Carolina Council for Exceptional Children’s 2025 award recipients.
A Wake Forest woman remains in the Halifax County Detention Center following her arrest Tuesday evening on cocaine and other drug charges.
Editor’s note: New Roanoke Rapids police Chief Lawrence Wiggins, who is expected to come onboard in March, answered the following questions in response to a request by rrspin.com. The website is using the Q&A format to preserve the way the questions were submitted to Wiggins, who is the current chief of the Allendale Police Department in South Carolina. The Q&A is edited only to conform to certain rrspin.com style guidelines. Due to suspected broad interest in the interview, we have lifted the paywall — Lance Martin.
