At many churches, pandemic hits collection plate, budgets
Biltmore United Methodist Church of Asheville, North Carolina, is for sale. Already financially stra...
Supreme Court halts COVID vaccine rule for US businesses
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to boost the nat...
Omicron threatens to slow Wilson’s tourism rebound
Despite facing challenges ranging from the pandemic to lost tournaments, officials took time Tuesday...
Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in US and Britain
Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19′s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and i...
School board continues mask policy as COVID-19 cases rise
The Wilson County Board of Education voted unanimously on Monday to continue the district’s mask man...
School COVID cases rise after holiday break
Positive COVID-19 cases among students and staff in Wilson County Schools have been on the rise sinc...
Supreme Court skeptical of Biden’s workplace vaccine rule
WASHINGTON — Fully vaccinated and mostly masked, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared ...
COVID cases spike as test demand grows
Almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, Wilson County is now seeing its highest number of recor...
AG Stein: Report at-home COVID test price gouging
RALEIGH — Attorney General Josh Stein is encouraging North Carolinians to report price gouging relat...
Memorial luminaries offer closure
Jeanette Taylor Parnell is a COVID-19 widow. Her husband, Donnie L. Parnell, died Oct. 24 at 62 yea...
Cooper urges boosters, plans NC worker mandate extension
RALEIGH — With COVID-19-related hospitalizations surging amid the spread of the extremely contagious...
School closures were too risky
When the news broke on Monday that one of North Carolina’s largest school districts, Cumberland Coun...
Testing spikes after holidays
Long lines formed this week as area residents received drive-through COVID-19 tests from Wilson heal...
Omicron brings urgency for vaccination, safety habits
As eastern North Carolina continues to see rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations driven by the ...
Navy blocked from acting against 35 COVID vaccine refusers
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Texas has granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Navy from ac...
Greene Correctional inmate’s death linked to COVID-19
A Greene Correctional Institution inmate died at a hospital on Saturday after testing positive for C...
Wilson County's COVID-19 cases on the rise
Local health officials say Wilson County is seeing a post-holiday surge in the number of COVID-19 ca...
Times Square show will go on despite virus surge, mayor says
NEW YORK — New York City will ring in 2022 in Times Square as planned despite record numbers of COVI...
New COVID cases in US soar to highest levels on record
CHICAGO — More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have ...
Hospital plans vigil for lives lost to COVID-19
Wilson Medical Center will hold a luminary remembrance ceremony to honor people who died as a result...
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