Rich Square
LATEST NEWS
Teachers on leave after toddler wanders onto busy road from daycare
GREENVILLE, Pitt County — Some Kinder Care teachers have been placed on administrative leave after a toddler escaped onto a busy road Tuesday morning. Greenville officers were dispatched to Kinder Care Child Center on Stantonsburg Road at 10:50 a.m. for a report of a child that was found standing on the roadway.
Reloaded No. 7 Chapel Hill stays hot, wins at Apex Friendship
APEX, N.C. — Some programs are just built to last. Chapel Hill volleyball is one of them. The No. 7 Tigers defeated host Apex Friendship in a 3-0 sweep on Thursday (25-12, 25-20, 25-20). Both teams also entered with wins over some of the top competitors in smaller classifications,...
Update: Missing NC girl found in Syracuse
CORTLAND, NY (CortacaToday) — Authorities in Cortland County are looking for a missing girl. 14-year-old Brookelyn Anderson is from North Carolina but was last seen on Monday at the Pit Stop gas station in Cortlandville. Anderson is white, about five feet tall, weighing roughly 120 pounds with black hair and blue eyes. If you’ve seen her, contact the Cortland County Sheriff’s Office at 607-753-3311.
Natron Energy Announces Plans for $1.4 Billion Giga-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Manufacturing Facility in North Carolina
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 15, 2024-- Natron Energy, Inc. (“Natron” or “the Company”), a global leader in sodium-ion battery technology, today announced plans to build the first sodium-ion battery gigafactory in the United States. The facility will be located in Edgecombe County, NC, and is expected to produce 24GW of Natron’s revolutionary sodium-ion batteries annually at full capacity. Natron’s sodium-ion batteries offer higher power density, more cycles, a domestic U.S. supply chain, and unique safety characteristics over other battery technologies. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240815622233/en/ Natron Energy manufactures sodium-ion battery products based on a unique and patented Prussian blue electrode chemistry for a wide variety of industrial power applications ranging from critical backup power systems for AI data centers to EV fast charging and system hybridization. (Photo: Business Wire)
Drug Rehab USA Launches Mental Health Scholarship
Hickory – Drug Rehab USA is proud to announce the launch of its new Mental Health Scholarship, aimed at addressing the critical shortage of mental health professionals in the United States, including North Carolina. This scholarship, available to students pursuing degrees in psychology, counseling, social work, and other related fields, offers financial support to those committed to making a difference in the mental health landscape.
Greensville County agrees to fund GCPS teacher raises
Teachers at Greensville County public schools are getting a much-deserved raise. The Greensville County Board of Supervisors voted to allocate $111,000 for GCPS to be used for a 3% raise for teachers, paraprofessionals and all school-level personnel and a 1.5% pay increase for all central office staff.
Swing Racquet + Paddle breaks ground on new 44-acre campus in Raleigh
Get your rackets ready!Swing Racquet + Paddle has officially broken ground in Raleigh's Brier Creek area.The 44-acre flagship campus will be a sports-forward entertainment experience known as "Sportstainment" and will be the largest, multi-racquet sports facility in the world.It will have 80 indoor and outdoor courts for several sports including 28 tennis courts, 25 pickleball courts, 15 padel courts, four beach tennis courts, and a ping pong lounge.ALSO SEE: Downtown businesses call for public input on Red Hat Amphitheater plansThe campus will also feature unique food and beverages curated by celebrity chef Fabio Viviani.The City of Raleigh contributed a $10...
Grocery store fire closes N. Alston Avenue between Holloway Street and Taylor Street in Durham
A Durham grocery store went up in flames Wednesday morning. N. Alston Avenue is closed between Holloway Street and Taylor Street due to a fire in the 700 block of N. Alston Avenue, Durham police said on X Wednesday morning. At 5:57 a.m., the Durham Fire Department was dispatched to...
Morgan resigns from OKI board; complaints filed
A directive handed down from Oak Island Town Council to the planning board earlier this summer has led to several code of ethics complaints, accusations of racism and one member stepping down entirely. Planning board member Melanie Morgan submitted her resignation Aug. 5 after council members Bob Ciullo and Terri...
Scholarship winner Blair Dickens pulls off double feat
Blair Dickens, of Skippers, Virginia, wasn’t present when Mary Duncan announced that the 2024 Greensville County High School graduate was the recipient of the 2024 $1,000 Moses Archie Clements Scholarship before The Crossing on Saturday. William & Mary-bound Dickens was busy with another commitment that ended successfully by winning the Miss Isle of Wight County Fair title.
RJ Davis projected to have one of the highest scoring totals in college basketball
RJ Davis took his game to another level last year – and it paid off with a historic season for the UNC men’s basketball team. The Tar Heels won their first ACC Regular Season Title since 2019, going 29-8 (17-3) to achieve the feat. North Carolina nearly added on its first ACC Tournament Championship since 2016, but fell victim to a red-hot NC State squad. UNC earned a Top Regional Seed in the NCAA Tournament, beating Wagner and Michigan State in its first two matchups. The Tar Heels then battled Alabama in a high-scoring contest, but lost in what’s unofficially known as...
Armando Bacot names "an attractive candidate" in the UNC basketball Head Coach search
When Roy Williams retired as the head coach of the UNC basketball program, the college basketball world focused its attention on Chapel Hill. As the university searched for its next head coach, plenty of names were thrown around as potential candidates. Of course, the University of North Carolina has the tendency of keeping their coaching positions "within the family," as they prefer a candidate with Tar Heel connections.
It’s essential to note our commitment to transparency:
Our Terms of Use acknowledge that our services may not always be error-free, and our Community Standards emphasize our discretion in enforcing policies. As a platform hosting over 100,000 pieces of content published daily, we cannot pre-vet content, but we strive to foster a dynamic environment for free expression and robust discourse through safety guardrails of human and AI moderation.