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By Della Rose   Debbie Turner didn’t think much about her symptoms of feeling run down. She was used to working long hours for weeks at a time between her job with New Dixie Oil, her family and community service. It wasn’t until her face started to droop, that she took notice. “I came home [...]

Special to The Daily Herald Halifax Regional proudly celebrates Belinda Jones-Hill, Intensive Care Unit Manager, on her recognition by the Halifax Community College as a local Roanoke Valley African-American Hero. Jones-Hill was among six community leaders and two students honored at the sixth annual “Saluting Our Local African-American Heroes” celebration Feb. 21st at The Centre. [...]

  by Della Rose, staff writer Enjoying what she does every day has allowed Belk employee Addie Stratton to collect a lot of good memories over the past 59 years. “Sept. 10, it will be 60 years,” she said. “Belk has been good to me.” Those memories started the day she went into the store, [...]

by Roger Bell, staff writer History was made at the Northampton County Courthouse Jan. 1 during a ceremony welcoming a new judge to Judicial District 6B. Vershenia Moody, who served most recently as an assistant district attorney in Halifax County, took the oath of office as District Court Judge Jan. 1, becoming the first black [...]

GASTONIA (AP) — Martha Short’s husband Pete entered a hardware store in east Gastonia to pick up paint and came out as the store’s new owner 58 years ago. The couple lived in Greenwood, S.C., at the time and Pete Short worked for a firm in Atlanta. His job required a lot of traveling, and [...]

by Roger Bell Three-term state Rep. Angela Bryant, D-Rocky Mount, is now a first-term state Senator for the Fourth North Carolina Senatorial District. This change of title comes after Bryant was elected to fill the vacant seat left by the Dec. 14 death of state Sen. Ed Jones by the Senatorial District Four Democratic Executive [...]