Medicaid top issue facing Edgecombe

Medicaid top issue facing Edgecombe
TARBORO Edgecombe County made some modest gains this year, officials said, but the real results will carry over into the next year.

Readers cook up their own batch of ideas for bowl season
I've thought about this a lot! And, as much as I'd love to see a playoff, nobody who can change the system listens. All (or no) conferences should have conference championship games. It's grossly unfair that the ACC. SEC, Big 12, etc., have them, while the Pac 10 and Big 10 do not.

WORST SELLER
With only four days left in 2006, Walt Disney's "High School Musical" will have the dubious distinction of being the only best-selling album of the year to fall short of the 4 million copy mark. The first kids' record and TV soundtrack to top the...

With bigger U.S. army, a bigger task for recruiters
Army officials express confidence that recruiters can continue a steady, substantial increase in troop numbers.