Tobacco has a long history in our region. Early English settlers in Virginia and the Carolinas largely built their economies around growing the crop and exporting it back to Europe.

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In the Rev. Larry Kirby, Rocky Mount’s NorthSide Church believes they have found a leader who can help shepherd the church into the future. In Rocky Mount, Kirby said he is hoping to make the ...

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A Mount Mourne Volunteer Fire Department truck caught fire at an intersection in Mooresville on Monday. Pleas for aid continue as firefighters battle blaze; Jets hire new coach ...

FRANKLINTON, N.C. - It wasn't pretty, but Rocky Mount did what good teams do. Found a way to win. The No. 23 ranked Gryphons led by a point after the first and second quarters, saw its three-point ...

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Krishana Polite, Robinson’s deputy chief of staff, was shot in the neck outside a Winston-Salem church after attending a New ...

the Pastor of First Baptist Church in Rocky Mount. Coates says exhibits will fill the inside and teach about Franklin County’s Black history, including the 70 Black soldiers from the county who ...

The family of Rocky Mounty native Cpt. Hugh Nelson Jr. received the Congressional Medal of Honor at the White House on his behalf. Nelson was killed in action on June 5, 1966, at 28 years old.

ROCKY MOUNT, Va. (WSET) — A 35-year-old woman died after a car collision in Rocky Mount on Wednesday, according to police. The Rocky Mount Police Department said first responders were dispatched ...