For the first time in 70 years, the town of Whitakers is upgrading water lines at a cost of $2 million. Whitakers is a small town, divided between Edgecombe and Nash counties by railroad tracks. A ...

The best Butch Whitaker can pinpoint it, his dad started this windmill repair business in the double-whammy throes of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. The 1930s weren't the ideal time for a ...

A protest by an incumbent town commissioner in Whitakers who was defeated in a tiebreaker earlier this week was rejected Thursday morning by the Edgecombe County Board of Elections. Town Commissioner ...

A tie is going to be broken between an incumbent and a challenger for one of Whitakers’ Board of Commissioners seats by drawing a name from a hat at a meeting set for 5 p.m. today at the Nash County ...

Nash County argument leads to shooting, leaving 1 dead, 1 injured The Nash County sheriff's office said an argument between two people who knew each escalated into gunfire, leaving one dead and the ...

Police arrested a 17-year-old teen Sunday morning in the fatal shooting of his father and stepmother at a Whitakers home. Police arrested a 17-year-old teen Sunday morning in the fatal shooting of his ...