1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1244+ words) EDENTON — Ask Sheriff Edward “Scooter” Basnight what makes Chowan County special, and he doesn’t hesitate. “It’s the people,” Basnight said. “You get up in the Rocky Hock neighborhood, those people are tight. They look out for each other. If someone’s…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (936+ words) EDENTON — Chowan County’s empty jail will stay empty. Martin County officials have told the county they won’t pursue using the facility to house inmates displaced by the closure of the Bertie-Martin Regional Jail. County Manager Kevin Howard told the Chowan…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (239+ words) HERTFORD — Perquimans County Emergency Management will host a commemoration ceremony on Friday, September 11, 2026, marking 25 years since the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and reshaped the nation. The ceremony will begin at 8 a.m. on the Perquimans County Courthouse lawn in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (520+ words) Plymouth police are looking for a man recorded exposing himself in public at a laundromat last week, according to the Roanoke Beacon. A patron at the Wash House, on U.S. 64, reported the incident to police after recording a man who entered…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (786+ words) PLYMOUTH — Two men arrested nearly five months after a fatal shooting on Latham Avenue face four felony charges each, with newly available court records providing additional details about the shooting that killed one man and injured another man and an…...