Hunt boys, Nash Central girls win Big East swim titles

Rocky Mount placed second for the boys' Big East swimming title, while the Gryphon girls finished in fourth. More

Rocky Mount gets rare sweep over Hunt

Rocky Mount pulled off a rare sweep of Wilson Hunt Friday night on the road in Big East hoop action. - RMSH's 11th road contest of the year. Its teams have 14 road games on its schedule! More

Rocky Mount sweeps Wilson Fike in Big East opener

Rocky Mount's hoop teams had little trouble in boys or girls play Tuesday night as Big East Conference began. More

Clayton gets OT win over Rocky Mount

The Rocky Mount Gryphons dropped their second game in as many days Wednesday at the HighSchoolOT.com Holiday Invitaional. In a boys consolation matchup, RMHS fell in overtime to Clayton, 62-60. More

Broughton tops Rocky Mount in 4-team bracket

Raleigh Broughton beat Rocky Mount 68-56 in the four-team Shavlik Randolph boys bracket of the HighSchoolOT Holiday Invitational Tuesday afternoon at Broughton's Holliday Gym. More

Brown leads Rocky Mount past Holly Springs 61-48

It was a tale of two halves in Game 2 of the 4-Team Girl's Bracket of the 2011 HighSchoolOT.com Holiday Invitational, as the Rocky Mount Gryphons pulled away from the Holly Springs Lady Hawks to take away a victory. More

Brutus leads Gryphons to Nash County Christmas Tourney title

Thanks to a career-high 25 points from MVP Lavon Brutus, Rocky Mount outlasted Nash Central 73-67 Tuesday evening for the boys Nash County Christmas Tournament title. More

Rocky Mount boys make Nash County tourney finals

Rocky Mount will play Nash Central for the boys title at the 2011 Nash County Christmas Tournament after the Gryphons' 71-47 win over Northern Nash in the semifinals Tuesday evening. More

Northern girls stun Rocky Mount in tourney opener

Rocky Mount's 72 points a game average took a big hit Monday night as Northern Nash beat the Gryphons 53-40 in the semis of the Nash County Christmas Tournament at Southern Nash. More

Hudgins reaches milestone as RMHS girls smash Rose

Senior Tia Hudgins passed the 1,000-point mark for her career en route to an 80-27 drubbing of Greenville Rose Friday night. She had a game-high 25 points in the contest. RM's boys also won. More

Special Profile Series: Ron Smith

By Auto Remarketing Staff Smith: The nearest real town was Rocky Mount, NC, about 60 miles east of Raleigh. I actually grew up in a rural community called Dortches, which had a population of about 300. My father was first a mechanic and then a service ... More

Hot Stove a hot ticket

Godwin — who played baseball at Northern Nash High School in Rocky Mount and Atlantic Christian College (now Barton) in Wilson — shared various stories as he talked of rising through the coaching ranks, from high school to American Legion to junior ... More

Rocky Mount High produces three semifinalists for Park Scholarship

By Jim Holt Out of thousands of high school seniors in the Twin Counties, only three are semifinalists in the competition for NC State University's most prestigious scholarship. They all go to class together at Rocky Mount High School. More

State's poverty reaches deep

To look for a job, he typically tries to get a lift to Tarboro (20 miles) or Rocky Mount (30 miles). So it hurts when politicians ignore the poor or say they're lazy, he told the head of the state chapter of National Association for the Advancement of ... More