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Kathryn Jean Lopez: GOP aborts its claim as pro-life party
Pro-life people believe abortion to be the human rights issue of our lifetime, one with eternal stakes. With the Republican Party's changes to its platform regarding abortion, it's hard to believe the GOP is in the cause for the long haul — never mind the eternal. The platform no longer calls for an end to abortion, opting instead for the leave-it-to-the-states position. This platform and likely presidential nominee Donald Trump have abandoned any even nominal claim to the moral high ground. Lauren Onak, vice-presidential candidate...
Cynthia Tucker: Rise of misinformation undermines trust in facts
My sister recently told me that her former supervisor at a small-town library doesn't believe the moon landings were real. I was stunned to hear that, but I shouldn't have been. My sister's former boss is a college-educated professional — and younger than the old folks I used to hear disputing the facts of the moon landings — but she is hardly an anomaly. We live in an age of misinformation, disinformation, easily accepted conspiracy theories and broad distrust of reliable sources of information. As...
Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift: Coney Barrett shows promise of independence
The power of judicial independence is reappearing. The most junior member of the Supreme Court, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, is emerging as the most independent-minded of the three conservative Trump appointees. She is no Sandra Day O’Connor, at least not yet, but she is following the late O’Connor’s playbook in her willingness to occasionally work with the other side, namely the three liberal justices on the Court, and to embrace gender solidarity. Justice Barrett is the only woman among the Court’s six conservative jurists while...
July 18 abby: Husband's disinterest may signal end of marriage
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been together for 15 years and share a 14-year-old son. We no longer have a physical relationship. I'm trying to decide if it's worth getting a divorce. Our marital relations were what I would consider normal, at least once a week, before and during my pregnancy. However, once my son was born, it became less and less frequent. We have gone as long as two years without being intimate. This is because of my husband's lack of interest. ...
July 18 Community News
Email announcements at least a week in advance to community@reflector.com. City pool The Greenville Outdoor Aquatic Center at Eppes Recreation Center, 400 Nash St., is open 1:30-6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. Saturday and 1-6 p.m. Sunday through Aug. 11. Fees apply. Call 329-4563. Ayden Museum ...
Multiple failures, multiple investigations: Unraveling the attempted assassination of Donald Trump
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — The young man was pacing around the edges of the Donald Trump campaign rally, shouldering a big backpack and peering into the lens of a rangefinder toward the rooftops behind the stage where the former president would stand within the hour. His behavior was so odd, so unlike that of the other rallygoers, that local law enforcement took notice, radioed their concerns and snapped a photo. But then he vanished. ...
Leaders welcome Japanese manufacturer expected to build plant, add 232 jobs
Pitt County’s workforce and welcoming nature were key in bringing a global health care leader to the area’s business landscape, leaders said, and the Japanese company is expected to create 232 jobs and invest more than $397 million with its first North American manufacturing plant in Greenville. Nipro, an Osaka, Japan-based manufacturer of medical devices for diabetes, kidney disease and other renal health issues, said it will build a 550,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility north of town off of Old Creek Road near U.S. 264 Bypass....
Prominent Democrat Schiff calls for Biden to withdraw: Democrats aim to nominate before convention
WASHINGTON (AP) — California Rep. Adam Schiff on Wednesday became the highest-profile Democrat to call for President Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid, even as the party pushed ahead with plans for a virtual vote to formally make Biden its nominee in the first week of August. The move to schedule the roll call, which would come weeks before the Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago on Aug. 19, follows nearly 20 Democratic members of Congress calling on Biden to withdraw from the presidential...
Prominent Democrat Schiff calls for Biden to withdraw: Democrats aim to nominate before convention
WASHINGTON (AP) — California Rep. Adam Schiff on Wednesday became the highest-profile Democrat to call for President Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid, even as the party pushed ahead with plans for a virtual vote to formally make Biden its nominee in the first week of August. The move to schedule the roll call, which would come weeks before the Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago on Aug. 19, follows nearly 20 Democratic members of Congress calling on Biden to withdraw from the presidential...
Former Pitt County Animal Shelter director charged with fraud
A former Pitt County employee was arrested after an investigation determined he submitted fraudulent documents to a federal agency to benefit a volunteer fire department, local authorities said. Christopher Chad Singleton, 50, turned himself in to the Pitt County Detention Center on Wednesday, where he was charged with two counts of obtaining property by false pretense and four counts each of forgery of instrument and uttering forged instrument. Singleton served...
Update: Japanese health care company to build first North American manufacturing center in Pitt County
Nipro Medical Corporation, a leader in the global health care and medical device industry, has selected Pitt County for its first North American manufacturing center of excellence, creating 232 jobs, Gov. Roy Cooper announced today. The company will invest more than $397.8 million to build a campus and U.S. headquarters in Greenville. “I’m excited to welcome another advanced manufacturing company to eastern North Carolina,” Cooper said in his announcement. "Not only will Nipro join a Greenville community of health care leaders, it will grow eastern...
Crime Roundup: Charges leveled in Greenville drive-by shooting
Three men have been charged in connection to a shooting that injured a man on Pitt Street last week, according to the Greenville Police Department. An incident report said officers responded about 5 p.m. on July 6 to the Pitt Street Mini Mart, 1701 Pitt St., for a report of a 23-year-old man shot in the leg during a drive-by shooting. A police spokesperson said the man was transported to...
Prep Spotlight: Local AAU hoops teams competing in Myrtle Beach
A trio of Greenville-based AAU travel basketball teams are representing their community on the national stage this week in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The IGI Blue (5th grade), IGI Red (8th grade) and IGI Black (9th grade) youth basketball teams, coached by Greenville native and former Lenoir Community College and Winston-Salem State hooper Antwaun Smith, tipped off in the 2024 NTBA Boys National Championship II this week. The tournament runs through...
ECU baseball: Lunsford-Shenkman, Ritchie selected in MLB Draft
Two more East Carolina players were selected in the Major League Baseball Draft on Tuesday, bringing the total to six. Junior reliever Wyatt Lunsford-Shenkman was taken in the 16th round with the 483rd overall pick by the Seattle Mariners. Later, left-handed reliever Erik Ritchie was taken in the 19th round with the 582nd overall pick by the Philadelphia Phillies. There have now been 28 Pirates drafted under 10th-year coach Cliff...
New charter, private school openings in question
A year-round charter school that was scheduled to start classes in Greenville this summer now has no opening date scheduled. Greenville Preparatory Academy, which announced in May 2023 that its opening would be delayed until the 2024-25 school year, has not been approved by the state Board of Education. The board in February approved a half dozen new charter schools to open in 2024 in Craven, Cumberland, Henderson, Mecklenburg and...
Update: Japanese health care company to build first North American manufacturing center in Pitt County
Nipro Medical Corporation, a leader in the global health care and medical device industry, has selected Pitt County for its first North American manufacturing center of excellence, creating 232 jobs, Gov. Roy Cooper announced today. The company will invest more than $397.8 million to build a campus and U.S. headquarters in Greenville. “I’m excited to welcome another advanced manufacturing company to eastern North Carolina,” Cooper said in his announcement. "Not only will Nipro join a Greenville community of health care leaders, it will grow eastern...
July 17 Community News
Email announcements at least a week in advance to community@reflector.com. Lunch and learn White Plains Church Ministries, 748 Edward St., Belhaven, will offer a Medicaid expansion Lunch and Learn event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday. Medicaid enrollment will be offered. For more information, call the church office at 943-3619. Winterville movie ...
State to create public fishing area near Grimesland
Construction is expected to begin later this summer on Pitt County’s first public fishing area managed by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. The work on North Grimesland Bridge Road between N.C. 33 and U.S. 264 is expected to be completed this fall, then the site will officially open to the public, the commission announced on Tuesday. The commission entered into an agreement with the N.C. Department of Transportation to...
Three days after attempted assassination, Trump shooter remains an elusive enigma
BETHEL PARK, — After three days, an enigmatic portrait emerged of the 20-year-old man who came close to killing former President Donald Trump with a high-velocity bullet: He was an intelligent loner with few friends, an apparently thin social media footprint and no hints of strong political beliefs that would suggest a motive for an attempted assassination. Even after the FBI cracked into Thomas Matthew Crooks' cellphone, scoured his computer, home and car, and interviewed more than 100 people, the mystery of why he opened...
Crime Roundup: Copper stolen from Bethel air conditioning units
An estimated $18,000 in copper was stolen from air conditioning units in Bethel over the weekend, law enforcement documents show. Incident reports from the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office said the thefts were reported at 8:47 a.m. Saturday from three residences in the 100 block of West Railroad Street. It is believed the larcenies occurred between Thursday afternoon and the time of the report. A spokesman for the sheriff’s office said...
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