Edenton News

Special to The Journal from the Los Angeles Times Reporting from Raleigh, N.C. Elaine Riddick was a confused and frightened 14-year-old. She was poor and black, the daughter of alcoholic parents in a segregated North Carolina town.

Should Pit Bulls face breed specific regulations and legislation? In our first report we heard two very different viewpoints on Pit bulls from those who love them and those who hate them.

Congressman G.K. Butterfield on Thursday said he is urging U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to reconsider plans to close several Farm Service Agency offices in North Carolina, including the Chowan office in Edenton.

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Elaine Riddick, 57, was pregnant at 14 after being raped by a man from her neighborhood.

The new Sears homestore opened its doors here without fanfare, but owner Blair Meads says he is pleased with the response nevertheless.

Seconds tick away on timekeepers of the present as he restores memories of the past.

Elaine Riddick was only 14 when the state decided that she was not capable of mothering children and quietly cauterized her fallopian tubes.

Jenna Lynn Hurdle of Hertford graduated Dec. 16 from East Carolina University with a bachelor of science degree in communications.

The Edmund Blount Skinner House is owned by Mark and Julie Phelps. From a ramshackle mess, the Phelps restored this 1845 antebellum plantation manor.