East Carolina University

SOUTH BEND -- Eleven local students recently received scholarships or grants totaling $23,000 from the South Bend Alumni Association, Connie Varga, Scholarship Committee chairwoman, said. Recipients of the $4,000 Superintendent’s Scholarships are...

The two-a-day practices were always fun because there was so much for an 8-year-old to do. There were cones to set up, tackling dummies to wrestle with, footballs to gather and water bottles to squirt. Young Chuck Pagano did it all for his father,...

Edwardsburg High School Valedictorians Andrew Gnott is the son of Edward and Lori Gnott. He was a member of National Honor Society and SADD, played varsity soccer and participated in Science Olympiad. He plans to attend the University of Notre Dame....

Jim and Karen Claypool of Abingdon announce the engagement of their daughter, Sarah Claypool, to Steve Thacker, the son of Sam and Janet Thacker from Aberdeen. Claypool graduated from Bel Air High School and received her undergraduate degree from...

WASHINGTON -- Sarah Bittleman, the new agriculture counselor at the Environmental Protection Agency, is determined to improve communications between rural America and an agency that many farmers consider both economically and culturally threatening. "My...

East Carolina University announced on Wednesday the first scholarship awarded in memory of Trevor Times, the late Jamestown High golf star who died in drowning accident a year ago. Times, a senior at Jamestown when he died, had signed a scholarship to...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A quarter of cardiac arrest survivors suffer long-term psychological problems such as anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, a new review of research estimates. This additional stress on recovering patients is...

Stewart Rendon has joined Sanford Aberdeen Clinic as a general surgeon and will perform a variety of surgical procedures. Rendon received his medical degrees from the University of California, School of Medicine in Riverside, Calif. He completed his...

Clark Harrell knows a little something about rebuilding high school football programs. He suspects that's one of the biggest reasons Smithfield High picked him as its new head coach. Harrell, 55, takes over a Smithfield team that went 1-9 a year ago...

East Carolina University won't say why it fired the student newspaper's adviser, but is asking people to trust that it's not related to the paper's decision to print full-frontal photos of a streaker at a football game. The Greenville university issued a...

Courtney Winn Faudree and Tyler Marion Hurd Mr. and Mrs. Eric M. Faudree, of Urbanna, Va. announce the engagement of their daughter, Courtney Winn Faudree, to Tyler Marion Hurd, son of Dr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Hurd Jr., of West Friendship. Faudree, a...

Elizabeth Lynn McSpadden, daughter of Jay and Betsy McSpadden, of Havre de Grace, and Adam Joseph Hasenfus, son of Eric and Cheryl Hasenfus, of Rome, Maine, were married June 24 at the Kent Manor Inn on Kent Island. The ceremony was performed by Harford...