Leggett News

Three local volunteer fire departments received grants from the N.C. Department of Insurance this month.

At one time, barely 30 percent of South Robeson High School seniors went to college after graduation.

The Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office announced a major arrest Tuesday involving a national effort to curb a Mexican drug cartel's activities.

Bridge winners Wilson Duplicate bridge winners Nov. 3 were Joyce Lamm and Martha Walston, first; Vivian Leggett and Ron Woodsum, second; Glenda Wilson and Betty Banks, third.

Restaurants honor veterans, service personnel Applebee's located on Forest Hills Road, along with all of the nearly 2,000 Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar restaurants, will honor U.S. veterans and active duty military with a free meal on Veterans Day, Nov.

When he addressed those gathered Saturday on Main Street for the opening ceremony of the 23rd annual Fairmont Farmers Festival, Mayor Charles Kemp couldn't disguise the pride he has in his community.

Domestic interiors is the common theme for two new painting exhibitions at Barton Art Galleries in October.

It was the best of times and the worst of times for Lane Anderson. The day had finally arrived for the Tarboro woman's marriage to Brett Taylor.

Edgecombe County residents continue to move forward from the physical and emotional destruction left behind from Hurricane Floyd.

Farmers planted less tobacco this growing season in Nash County in response to a reduction in domestic consumer demand, growers said.

Pastoral caregivers that support Heritage Hospital have just recently completed the Pastoral Care in Community program offered as a collaborative program of the Duke Divinity School and The Duke Endowment.

First Anniversary of Rev. Kelly R. Andrews will be held at 5 p.m. on June 28. Rev. Cornell Joyner of the St.

Three people were taken to Heritage Hospital in Tarboro with injuries after two separate traffic accidents occurred on Sunday in Edgecombe County.

Leggett Chapel Church will have vacation bible school June 22-26 at 7 p.m. nightly.

A University City condo developer found out in 2004 that two of the complex's proposed buildings might be in the path of a state road, but he built them anyway.

As construction wraps up on the final phase of Edgecombe County's Water District 5 this summer, so too will the last section of the countywide water system begin.

RALEIGH The plaza in front of the Legislative Building echoed Tuesday morning with a rarely heard cry: Raise our taxes, please.

While the Edgecombe County health director lauds the statewide ban on smoking in restaurants and bars, Edgecombe residents with tobacco-growing backgrounds are unhappy.

Spring Revival will conclude at 7 p.m. tonight. Guest minister will be Dr. C.E. McCullum of the Oak Grove Baptist Church in Littleton.

It has been five years since Heidi Leggett gave birth to a beautiful, but stillborn, baby boy named Hunter.