A solar panel manufacturing company will locate in Greenville and create more than 900 jobs over four years at Indigreen Corporate Park north of town, Gov. Roy Cooper and other officials announced on Friday.
BETHEL — Advocates north of the Tar River are working to bring fresh produce, educational opportunities and telehealth to residents.
The Greenville Board of Adjustment unanimously voted to amend a special use permit for a farm-focused housing development along N.C. 43 North.
The expansion of broadband and the number of service providers in rural areas of Pitt County dominated discussion recently when Pitt County’s legislative delegation met with the Board of Commissioners.
State Democratic leaders including party chairwoman Anderson Clayton and Secretary of State Elaine Marshall will visit Greenville Sunday for a listening session and meet-and-greet.
East Carolina University is now part of North Carolina Commerce’s Rural Community Capacity (RC2) program. The program provides professional development training for leaders of local governments in some of the state’s economically distressed areas.
Charges against a Walstonburg man arrested in an April 15 shooting death on Third Street in west Greenville include murder and accessory after the fact, according to jail records.
Eleven students in the East Carolina University Immersive Master of Business Administration (IMBA) pathway have been paired with North Carolina companies, putting them one step closer to completing their one-year graduate journey.
WINTERVILLE — A panel of judges from the local business community heard five Pitt Community College students deliver their best business pitches Monday night before announcing April Kelly as the winner of the 2024 PITTCCH Competition.
Mother’s Day market: Eastern Carolina Village & Farm Museum will host an herb sale and Mother’s Day Market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 5 at 4570 County Home Road. Free admission and parking. A variety of vendors will offer gift ideas.
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The United Auto Workers union announced it reached a last-minute tentative agreement with truck and bus manufacturer Daimler Truck on Friday evening, averting a potential strike of more than 7,000 workers. The union struck a four-year agreement with the German company just before the expiration of the previous contract, which was enacted six years ago. It covers workers at various plants in North Carolina — where Daimler makes Thomas Built Buses, Freightliner and Western Star trucks — as well as workers at distribution plants in Atlanta and Memphis, Tennessee. UAW President Shawn Fain says the new contract includes wage increases of more than 25% over the next four years and cost-of-living adjustments, among other things. Union members still need to approve the agreement.
An American Airlines flight attendant has been indicted after authorities say he tried to secretly video record a 14-year-old girl using an airplane bathroom. A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted 36-year-old Estes Carter Thompson III, of Charlotte, North Carolina. Police say he also had recordings of four other girls using lavatories on an aircraft where he worked. Thompson was indicted on one count of attempted sexual exploitation of children and one count of possession of images of child sexual abuse depicting a prepubescent minor. He remains in federal custody.
RALEIGH — Early in-person voting is ongoing across North Carolina for next month’s runoff elections, including one congressional and two statewide primary contests.
RALEIGH — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has submitted proposals to the General Assembly that seek to halt Republicans’ premier policies on taxes and school choice — proposals that GOP lawmakers are likely to ignore as they deliberate during the legislative short session that started Wednesday.
Early in-person voting has started across North Carolina for next month’s runoff elections, including one congressional and two statewide primary contests. Early voting sites opened in all 100 counties on Thursday and will be available through May 11. The runoff election day is May 14. Voters in part are choosing this fall’s Republican nominees for lieutenant governor, state auditor and the 13th Congressional District seat. These runoffs are happening because the candidate with the most votes in the March primary failed to get over 30% of the vote. There are also runoff elections for local seats in Orange and Gaston counties.
Planned Parenthood affiliated groups have announced a $10 million voter engagement campaign in North Carolina for the 2024 election. Organizers said in a Thursday news conference that the money will go toward things like canvassing, mailers and digital ads. The funding comes as abortion-rights advocates seek to end a Republican supermajority at the General Assembly that approved new restrictions last year and to prevent the election of anti-abortion gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson. Planned Parenthood Votes spokesperson Emily Thompson says the amount marks the largest campaign investment ever made by Planned Parenthood entities in North Carolina.
The North Carolina General Assembly has returned to work six months after it wrapped up a landmark session in 2023, and quickly received a budget proposal from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. The House and Senate gaveled in their floor meetings Wednesday after Cooper presented his adjustments to the second year of the two-year budget. He wants the Republican-dominated legislature to halt expansion of the state's private-school voucher program and prevent the highest wage earners from benefitting fully from an upcoming income tax cut. Republicans are unlikely to do either when they draw up their own spending plan in the coming week. They hold narrow veto-proof majorities.
An effort to limit diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is gaining momentum in state capitals and college campuses. Tennessee became the latest state to act this week as the Republican governor signed a law prohibiting banks from considering a customer's participation in DEI training. That came shortly after the Democratic governor of Kansas allowed a bill to become law barring higher education institutions from using DEI statements in employment and admissions. A budget bill given final approval in Iowa seeks to ban DEI offices and programs in higher education. Republicans in about two dozen states have filed bills this year targeting DEI efforts.
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NEW YORK (AP) — As students protesting the Israel-Hamas war at college campuses across U.S. dug in Saturday and vowed to keep their demonstrations going, some universities moved to shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity among the protesters.
Hamas says it is reviewing a new Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza. And Egypt is intensifying efforts to broker a deal to end the war and stave off a planned Israeli ground offensive into the southern city of Rafah. The Israeli military has massed dozens of tanks and armored vehicles in southern Israel close to Rafah and hit locations in the city in near-daily airstrikes. Rafah is on the border with Egypt. Egypt has cautioned that an offensive into Rafah could have “catastrophic consequences” on the humanitarian situation in Gaza as well as on regional peace and security. Hamas’ statement on Saturday came hours after a high-level Egyptian delegation wrapped up a visit to Israel.
Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of college campuses following last week's arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University.
Donald Trump has promised big plans for recruiting voters in Black, Latino and Asian communities. But five months before the first general election votes are cast, the former president's campaign has little apparent organization to show for those ambitions. The Trump campaign removed its point person for coalitions and hasn’t announced a replacement. The Republican Party’s minority outreach offices across the country have been shuttered and replaced by businesses that include a check-cashing store, an ice cream shop and a sex-toy store. The Trump campaign says it won't announce its spending or staffing on minority coalition efforts but believes it has advantages over the reelection bid of Democratic President Joe Biden.
Donald Trump has promised big plans for recruiting voters in Black, Latino and Asian communities. But five months before the first general election votes are cast, the former president’s campaign has little apparent organization to show for those ambitions. The Trump campaign removed its point person for coalitions and hasn’t announced a replacement. The Republican Party’s minority outreach offices across the country have been shuttered and replaced by businesses that include a check-cashing store, an ice cream shop and a sex-toy store. The Trump campaign says it won’t announce its spending or staffing on minority coalition efforts but promises a “comprehensive” effort and believes it has advantages over the reelection bid of Democratic President Joe Biden.
LONDON (AP) — It’s springtime in Europe — time for the annual blossoming of spectacle and sound known as the Eurovision Song Contest.
Donald Trump’s criminal trial began in earnest with opening statements and testimony. But the unprecedented moment of a former president standing trial unfolded this past week amid a crescendo of developments in other legal cases involving the former Republican president. Even by Trump’s standards, it was a dizzying amount of legal work that involved more than half a dozen cases in four states and the nation's capital. Twice during the week, lawyers for the argument were simultaneously appearing in different courtrooms. The collision of so many cases within a five-day span underscores the challenges Trump will face as he campaigns again for the White House while his legal matters intensify.
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