All assets associated with the tag: Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office
The driver faces several charges, including fleeding to elude arrest.
Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer
The Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a deputy shot a family's dog in the face while serving a jury summons at their home.
Keenan Willard, WRAL eastern North Carolina reporter
Edgecombe County officials named a bridge over N.C. Highway 64 in Tarboro after three fallen sheriff's deputies. Between 1964 and 2018, Deputies Haywood Webb, Thomas Cone, and David Manning were killed in the line of duty.
One teenager has been charged with sexual assault involving Southwest Edgecombe High School students, according to officials.
The family says he was a kind person who had never hurt anyone in the past, but after years of trying unsuccessfully to get him help for his mental illness it became too much for him to bear.
The man who was shot and killed Thursday after stabbing an Edgecombe County deputy suffered from mental health issues, Sheriff Cleveland Atkinson said.
A brawl at a Tarboro bingo hall continued at a local hospital Monday night, and an Edgecombe County deputy who responded to the melee was injured.
Keenan Willard, WRAL Eastern North Carolina repoter
The Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office is providing training to all 140 employees so they can better recognize their own biases and improve the way they communicate and deal with others.
Indira Eskieva, WRAL Eastern North Carolina reporter
A house fire in Edgecombe County on Friday killed one person and injured another.
Four people were shot and two died early Saturday at an illegal bar in Edgecombe County, authorities said.
A man was found dead of a gunshot wound Saturday afternoon in Edgecombe County.
A neighbor lent his private helicopter to the search Thursday for an Edgecombe County man who killed himself after shooting his estranged wife, authorities said.
The Nash County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday announced the arrest of 19 people on 85 total charges in "Operation Harvest."
Edgecombe County sheriff's deputies found a man dead, apparently of gunshots wounds, Sunday morning after receiving a call.
Kelly Hinchcliffe, WRAL reporter
Two men were arrested in Edgecombe County on Wednesday with one of them facing kidnapping charges.
Jason O. Boyd, WRAL.com editor
A woman picking up her husband from the Edgecombe County jail on Sunday found herself confined there after deputies found drugs in her car and a deputy was bitten on the hand.
A Rocky Mount toddler attacked by her family's dog a week ago has died, the Edgecombe County Sheriff's Office said Monday.
Matthew Burns, WRAL.com senior producer/politics editor
A Rocky Mount woman begged for help from a 911 dispatcher as she worked to get the family's pit bull off her 1-year-old daughter on Monday.
A Rocky Mount toddler remains hospitalized after being attacked Monday by the family dog, authorities said.
Edgecombe County authorities discuss a recent dog mauling that seriously hurt a 1-year-old girl.