Corey Friedman

This month, my office announced a milestone that has been more than six years in the making: North Carolina has ended the backlog of older sexual assault kits. This achievement is a testament to the hard work, dedication and collaboration of so many people. Survivors and victim advocates, law enforcement agencies, the scientists and administrators at the State Crime Lab, […]

SPRING HOPE — Planning Board members recommended updates to the town’s subdivision and zoning ordinances during their meeting on Thursday. The panel unanimously approved three motions from Chairman Howard Weeks that included updates to the zoning ordinance, updates to town ordinances on subdivisions and an ordinance change that would forbid street parking on narrow roads. Town Manager Andrew DeIonno reminded […]

MIDDLESEX — The Board of Commissioners has hired a new public works employee, changed its bond counsel service for a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant-loan package and announced six permit applications granted by the town administrator. Commissioners agreed to hire Brock Ward as a full-time Middlesex Public Works Department employee at $20 an hour. Additionally, commissioners unanimously agreed to switch […]

ROCKY MOUNT — Sapony Creek Apiaries owner and beekeeper Dave Bradley said more than 400 beekeepers in and out of the state pick up about 6 million bees from the business annually. That number doesn’t include the number of queen bees Sapony Creek sells. Bradley said the average is about 300 packages and 300 nuclei each year. A nucleus or […]

As a black woman, I am shocked by the hypocrisy of far-left white liberals. Liberals condemn slavery, claim to be “anti-racists” and swear they are friends with black people, yet they have a double standard when it comes to black people who don’t agree with their whims and opinions. They condemn Democrats of the past for starting the Klan and […]

Speaker Mike Johnson led the U.S. House of Representatives in a monumental decision to continue funding for the Ukraine war on Saturday. In the press conference following the historic bipartisan vote, he said, “I want to be on the right side of history.” And for this vote, he will be. Honestly, I have not had a lot of confidence in […]

Remember the game “Simon Says” we used to play as children? One person, the designated “Simon,” would show the players an action to take or a saying to repeat. But you weren’t supposed to mimic it unless Simon prefaced the instruction by specifically saying “Simon Says ...” If you performed the action without Simon’s specific say-so, you were out of […]

ROCKY MOUNT — More of famed art educator Bob Ross’ original paintings will adorn the Mims Gallery walls in N.C. Wesleyan University’s Dunn Center for the holidays, NCWU President Evan D. Duff, art curator Jan Sullivan Volz and Bob Ross Inc. President Joan Kowalski announced. “Bob Ross: Bringing Back the Joy” will be on display in the Dunn Center’s Mims […]