Halifax County News

A Roanoke Rapids man has been charged with a murder that happened last week in Halifax County.

Jayda Lynch, 12, right, of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe, chats with Falls Road Baptist Church School first-grader Trevor Paul, 7, Monday during the annual Native American taste feast at the school.

Dennis Lee Daniel fidgeted on the witness stand as he answered questions Friday in Pittsylvania County Circuit Court.

A fugitive on the run for more than a year is behind bars after an early morning arrest Wednesday.

There's one more police officer on the beat here, at least part-time. Last week the Woodland Police Department welcomed their latest edition, part-time officer Michael H. Duhadaway.

The Veterans Day gathering at American Legion Post 90 featured World War II Navy veteran John Shearin, who was one of the personnel on a vessel that carried Allied soldiers and equipment to Omaha Beach on D-Day 1944.

When Agent C.T. Parker Jr. saw smoke rising from an old tin-walled barn in Nash County, N.C., last month, he knew he was about to close a case he'd been working on for nearly four years.

A teen from Farmville was arrested Monday, after deputies say they found two weapons in his vehicle, which was parked at a school.

A fugitive from another state was arrested late Monday night, but lawmen say he's been living in Eastern Carolina.

An expression of both alarm and wonderment crossed Diamond Lee's face as a tiny chick was placed in her opened hands.

A missing woman has prompted the state to issue a silver alert. Lawmen are asking for your help in finding 53 year-old Debra Jean Settles.

Lawmen say a deputy sheriff and rescue personnel were assaulted Sunday in Halifax County.

The Halifax County Sheriff's Office says a farm tractor has been recovered nearly three years after it was stolen.

Roanoke Rapids police made an arrest Tuesday in the slaying of businessman Shelby Salmon.

An arrest has been made in a break-in that took place earlier this year in the east.

Who is the person in the surveillance photo? Deputies in Halifax County want to know who is using a stolen bank card.

The Halifax County Sheriffa s Office is investigating a shooting at the Green Store on Hwy 48 outside Roanoke Rapids.

Lawmen are looking for two men in connection with a shooting in Halifax County. The Sheriff's Office is searching for 29-year-old Charles Hockaday from Roanoke Rapids and 23-year-old Alston Parker from Roanoke Rapids.

Kimberly Matthews was found by state troopers unconscious in her car that was parked along I-95 in Halifax County a week ago.

Powerful!A That was the one word that kept resounding in my mind as I interviewed an incredible lineup of talented and passionate women from the cast and crew of a oeMamaa s Pearls,a a play written by Halifax native Joan Whitlock and directed by Howard G. Brenda E. Harris plays a dual role as Mae Emma and her twin sister, Lillie Mae.