Edgecombe County News

As many as 140 former Barcalounger plant workers could be eligible for federal cash payments for 2 1/2 years while they are enrolled in paid training for a new career.

The Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners business on Monday included approving debt service payments for school construction projects and listening to concerns about the Edgecombe County Landfill.

Challengers fared well Tuesday as voters trickled in and out of Twin Counties polling sites to choose new municipal leaders.

When Edgecombe County caregivers meet and discuss their situations, more bring up dealing with Alzheimer's disease patients than anything else.

The foundation managing half of North Carolina's share of the national tobacco settlement violated open meetings laws and could be better protected from investment risk and political influence, State Auditor Beth Wood's office said Monday.

Two people are facing drug charges in two separate cases in Rocky Mounty. George Perry was arrested just after 11:00 p.m. Friday at a home on Woodland Avenue.

After the surprise announcement was made Monday, Princeville Montessori School Principal Amy Marshall-Brown spent some time wrapping her head around the fact that she was selected as Edgecombe County Public Schools' Principal of the Year.

A funeral home owner said its her "human" feelings that made her want to host a memorial today for Elizabeth Jane Smallwood, whose remains were found in February.

She was missing for at least a year, but nobody seemed to notice. Even in February, after a prison work crew found the skeletal remains of a small-framed female in a thicket near U.S. 64, no one stepped forward to claim the body.

Rocky Mount police were canvassing this morning through brush and wooded areas near Melton Drive, the semiresidential area where the body of 33-year-old Elizabeth Jane Smallwood was found in February.

One area non-profit director says that her organization losing funding for the past two years has had an effect on Edgecombe County's increased teenage pregnancy rate.

Construction on a portion of Water District 4 is expected to begin next week, Edgecombe County Water and Sewer Director Mike Matthews said Thursday.

Two Edgecombe County men were taken into custody by Tarboro Police Thursday, in connection with an armed robbery of a Rocky Mount pawn shop on Wednesday.

The largest single strike at the Mexican drug cartel is how Attorney General Eric Holder describes a nationwide raid the past two days, including here in eastern Carolina.

Seven towns in Edgecombe County will hold races for board and mayoral seats in the Nov.

Edgecombe County Health Department has received limited quantities of its first shipment of the H1N1 flu vaccination.

A cadre of murderers and rapists, several of whom victimized young girls, will be set free from North Carolina prisons this month after state courts agreed that a decades-old law defined life sentences as only 80 years long.

While efforts in Edgecombe County increased to expose the community to Hispanic culture over the last month, a teen group has been working since February to create awareness.

The Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office is seeking a man wanted in a stabbing incident that occurred on Bynum Farm Road Tuesday night.

In regards to the article headlined "Former bank employee faces embezzlement" written by T.J. Royal and featured on the front page of The Daily Southerner on Friday, there are many corrections that need to be made.