The Roanoke Rapids Graded School District Board of Trustees will begin an immediate search for a new district superintendent following the resignation of longtime superintendent Dennis Sawyer. Sawyer announced his plans today to take a position as administrative director of Arapahoe Charter School in Pamlico County, the Roanoke Rapids school system said in a statement.
The state Highway Patrol continues to investigate a two-vehicle wreck at the intersection of Macon Price Road and Highway 48 in the Gaston area.
An organized effort to stop the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been formed in Halifax County.
A Tuesday evening collision between tractor-trailers and two other vehicles shut down the right, northbound lane of Interstate 95 until well past midnight, the state Highway Patrol reported.
Another day of water searches on Roanoke Rapids Lake has thus far not produced any evidence in the case of an Enfield fisherman missing since early Saturday morning.
