Elsewhere in the region, Nash County has reported six cases, Craven County has four, and Onslow County has two.

The town of Rowland's water and sewer system has been operating at a loss for four years, and it has more than $150,000 in unpaid bills. It's one of more than a dozen towns that faced financial scrutiny from the N.C. Local Government Commission on Tuesday.

The Center for Family Violence Prevention has launched an urgent GoFundMe campaign to close a massive $160,000 budget deficit. Non-profit leadership says the center needs to raise at least $40,000 by September 30 to keep its emergency safe house and critical support services operating.

North Carolina’s Gang Prevention and Intervention Task Force convened in Winston-Salem Tuesday to discuss gang activity trends and how to counter them. Much of the conversation centered on youth.

The EEOC claims a Greenville store manager blocked a pregnant employee from using the restroom during severe morning sickness and threatened her job via text. When she requested leave for urgent pregnancy complications on New Year’s Eve, the manager fired her over the phone. Three days later, the worker learned she had miscarried.

The Division of Marine Fisheries has launched a month-long public scoping period for its five-year review of the state's Kingfishes management plan.

Roads can hurt stream habitat. But there’s a solution — really big culverts.

The group claims federal officials are more than 10 years overdue on finalizing legally required habitat protections for the red knot. The population of the migratory birds has plummeted by 94% over the last 4 decades.

The district is nearly back to pre-pandemic student proficiency levels, but officials warn that funding cuts could hinder that progress.

A prominent Hong Kong democracy activist, Joshua Wong, has pleaded guilty to a charge of colluding with foreign interests under a Beijing-imposed national security law.

In the new movie It Ends, four twentysomethings find themselves stuck on an endless road — literally. Filmmaker Alex Ullom says his sensibilities were shaped by growing up online.

A leading Palestinian writer has secretly moved his archives from the Israeli-occupied West Bank to Scotland, to save it from the risk of destruction in Israeli military operations.

South Korea's government is trying to keep religious groups from interfering in politics. The case of one Korean pastor has attracted attention at the highest levels of the U.S. government.

Chief Justice John Roberts says he's thinking about how to dial back extra-long oral arguments at the Supreme Court.

As momentum builds to recover artworks stolen during World War Two by the Nazis, researchers have created an AI chatbot that aims to trace the ownership and location history of works of art.

Chevron is expanding its current operations in Venezuela. The deal expands the company's footprint at a time of political and economic uncertainty in Venezuela.

NPR's "It's Been a Minute" podcast explores the complexities of adults who wind up having to care for aging parents with whom they may have had a fraught or even abusive child relationship.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Pastor Carl Ruby of Central Chistian Church in Springfield, Ohio about the death of 20-year-old Pierre Damas Bel, who died after being struck by a truck on the interstate.