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Dog Shelters Agree To Stop Using Carbon Monoxide Chambers
Last Updated: 4:38 PM 11/20/09 - Shelters in Martin County, Rocky Mount and Wilson County have voluntarily agreed to stop using their carbon monoxide chambers.
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Shooting In Rocky Mount, Police Searching For Leads
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Last Updated: 5:27 AM 11/20/09 - A shooting in Rocky Mount has left police searching for suspects and they need your help. (Full Story)
Rocky Mount Police Set Up Cold Case Unit
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Last Updated: 10:40 PM 11/19/09 - Twenty four unsolved homicides, 8 within the last two years will be the focus of the new police unit. (Full Story)
Volunteer Fire Departments Get Grant Money
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Last Updated: 7:27 PM 11/18/09 - In all over 63-Thousand dollars in grant money was awarded and will be used to buy equipment.

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Two Armed Robberies Tuesday Night In Rocky Mount
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Last Updated: 9:56 AM 11/18/09 - One involved shots being fired at the victims, the other where the victim was pistol whipped. (Full Story)
Police Report Guns, Holdup, Fight At Rocky Mount Restaurant
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Last Updated: 10:08 PM 11/14/09 - Police in Rocky Mount say a man was inside the IHOP restaurant bathroom on North Wesleyan Boulevard early Saturday morning, about 4:00 a.m., when four men came in carrying two guns. (Full Story)
 Employees Say Rest Stop In Rocky Mount Is Haunted
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Last Updated: 12:00 AM 11/14/09 - Most of us have stopped at one of them, many of us do it all the time especially while on the road but usually we're in and out in a matter of minutes. So WITN decided to spend the night at a Rocky Mount rest stop to find out exactly what goes on there after dark. (Full Story)
 Armed Robbery At Shoe Store
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Last Updated: 8:22 AM 11/11/09 - The women working at the store told Rocky Mount Police that the suspect had tear drops tattooed on the right side of his face. (Full Story)
Rash Of School Break-Ins In Rocky Mount
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Last Updated: 8:15 AM 11/11/09 - Police say the intruder broke into four trailers of an elementary school, and this isn't the first time this has happened recently. (Full Story)
Sex Offender Wanted For Attempted Murder
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Last Updated: 1:40 PM 11/10/09 - Mack Lewis of Rocky Mount is wanted by Wayne County authorities. Deputies say he should be considered armed and dangerous. (Full Story)
Bust Nets ALE $11,000 In Moonshine & Still
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Last Updated: 3:25 PM 11/10/09 - ALE agents say smoke coming from a barn on a hot day was a good tip off that something illegal was brewing in a barn in Whitakers in Nash County. (Full Story)
New York's Most Wanted Arrested In Eastern Carolina
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Last Updated: 5:25 AM 11/09/09 - What was he doing here? That's what some are wondering after New York's most wanted was arrested here in Eastern Carolina. (Full Story)
Man Robbed Of A Grand Outside His Job
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Last Updated: 7:05 PM 11/07/09 - Hibachi Sushi employee robbed of a thousand dollars. Police searching for the suspect. (Full Story)
 Residents Get Robbed After Giving Someone A Ride
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Last Updated: 9:59 PM 11/07/09 - Once at the residence Parker allegedly returned with a shotgun and robbed Bullock of 25 dollars then took Bullocks 2000 Dodge Stratus. (Full Story)
 Two More Suspicious Fires In Rocky Mount
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Last Updated: 3:32 PM 11/07/09 - Two more suspicious fires are under investigation in Rocky Mount, making three cases in the past week. (Full Story)
Georgia Court Tosses Murder Suspect's Confession Made In Nash County
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Last Updated: 12:53 PM 11/03/09 - Patrick Lynch was stopped in Nash County in 2007. He says Nash County deputies beat him and stunned him with a Taser before obtaining the confession. (Full Story)
Neighborhood Watch? Police Say Woman Attacked
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Last Updated: 10:26 AM 11/03/09 - Rocky Mount police say the woman was attacked, possibly with a crowbar, by two women who asked if she was new to the neighborhood. (Full Story)
Middle School Gets Makeover
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Last Updated: 9:13 PM 11/02/09 - C.B. Martin Middle School in Tarboro received a 25-hundred dollar "Hero's Grant" from the home improvement chain. (Full Story)
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