Greenville News

Former state Rep. Stephen LaRoque of Kinston will go on trial in federal court Monday in Greenville on charges that he enriched himself with U.S. Department of Agriculture money that he was supposed to loan to struggling rural business owners.

All the ingredients are in place for a successful Happening on the Common in Tarboro Saturday.

Legislation that attempts to prevent people from suing North Carolina food manufacturers, sellers and advertisers by claiming their products made them overweight has passed one General Assembly chamber.

On Friday, May 17th 2013 at 1:00 PM the Board of Directors and honored community leaders will officially break ground on Phase One of the GO-Science Regional Science and Technology Center at 729 Dickinson Ave., in Greenville, NC. Individuals interested in attending the ceremony can register online for free at http://www.go-science.org/rsvp

With help from the Pitt County Sheriff's Office, Greenville Police said they have arrested a break-in suspect who fled to California when he heard he was wanted.

The Daily Reflector of Greenville reports that 65-year-old John Alton Moore Jr. and 59-year-old Edelmira Najera Nichols of Fountain have been accused of trying to hire someone to kill two family members.

GREENVILLE, N.C., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., America's trusted source for identifying Top Doctors, has selected Greenville's Pediatric Nephrology specialist Dr.

Twymon Antonio Arnold, 39, a permanent substitute teacher at Washington County Union Middle School in Roper, has been charged with maiming without malice, assault on a female, and kidnapping.

An all-female flat track roller derby league has settled into the Wreck Room in downtown Kinston.

The time for both was Saturday at the 20th Annual Teen Fest, sponsored by the Young Women's Outreach Center.

Ashley Danielle Moyer and Chris Taylor Marrow of Raleigh was married Saturday, May 11, 2013 at half past four at All Saints Chapel in Raleigh.

Nate Johnson has Havelock on his mind, so much so that he brought the National Active and Retired Federal Employees association to the city for its 57th annual state convention this week.

Spc. Josh Nelson of Greenville was one of four soldiers killed in September in the worst green-on-blue attack of the year in Afghanistan, as Americans were preparing to hand over a small outpost in the Zabul Province to Afghan forces.

Susan M. Boyer of Greenville, N.C., has won the coveted Agatha First Novel Award at the 25th annual Malice Domestic, a mystery fans' convention held Ma7 3-5 in the Washington, D.C., era.

An East Carolina University student is in custody after authorities discovered he was wanted on a federal warrant for deserting the military.

Some might say when you're at the top Life is easy. That certainly isn't the case for Greenville's police chief who took the reins of the department in November.

Wilmington developer Steven Brock of Brock Ventures, Inc. is shown here making a pitch before Mount Olive Town Commissioners on Monday night for his proposed 56-unit housing complex on NC Highway 55 West.

Several local law enforcement agencies held a DWI checkpoint in Greenville overnight.

We're working to get more information about a man locked up in a local jail on the unusual charge of being a military deserter.

Sgt. Joe Friday with the Greenville Police Department says around 11:45 p.m. a man was shot several times in the legs at the intersection of 12th St.