The Gryphons opened their season with a resounding 75-6 win over Tarboro Wednesday evening.   More »

After eeking out a win over No. 16 seed Eastern Guilford on Saturday, South Johnston caught its breath this week to prepare for Rocky Mount.   More »

It looks like the Rocky Mount Gryphons will be home for Christmas, after all. The boys basketball team has declined a second straight trip to the GlaxoSmithKline Invitational.   More »

When Chapel Hill High pulled out of the 39th Annual GlaxoSmithKline Invitational last week, Rocky Mount's boys basketball team was asked to join the field.   More »

Rocky Mount's football team hadn't lost a first-round playoff game since 2003 and its 2009 senior class wasn't about to see the streak end last Friday night.   More »

Lindsay Thomas has been honored as the Big East Conference's girls tennis player of the year.   More »

Rocky Mount's boys soccer season came to a close Wednesday evening at the hands of the Jacksonville Cardinals in a tough 5-0 defeat in the third round of the NCHSAA 3-A playoffs.   More »

A Collins Cuthrell TD run with 3.2 seconds gave Rocky Mount a wild 15-12 win over Northern Nash Friday evening.   More »

The Rocky Mount girls basketball team will host a jamboree on Thursday, Nov. 12.   More »

Rocky Mount's annual Gryphon Boys Basketball Jamboree will be next Saturday.   More »

The Gryphons have advanced to the third round of the NCHSAA boys soccer playoffs after a 3-1 victory over Washington Saturday.   More »

The field lights will stay on for two Nash County high school football teams as the NCHSAA playoffs begin this week - including Rocky Mount!   More »

Rocky Mount will play its first-round NCHSAA 3-A boys soccer playof fgame with C.B. Aycock Wednesday under the lights at the new R.M. Sports Complex on N. Church St.   More »

Rocky Mount will host Northern Nash for its final JV football game Wednesday evening, not Thursday evening.   More »

The winning school's Booster Club will now receive a $500 prize - up from $350. So Gryphons, eat a lot of chickin' all the way up to Thursday!   More »

From the ADMs released by the NCHSAA Monday, the Gryphons will play in the 3-AA playoffs for the first time ever.   More »

For the second time in three years, Rocky Mount had a doubles team in the 3-A state finals. But the duo couldn't pull of the win   More »

Senior Jordan Ford had two big plays Friday night in the Gryphons' 24-19 win over Southern Nash. His last one was the game-winner.   More »

Southern Nash is bringing its most successful team since 1991 to the Rocky Mount Athletic Complex Friday to face Rocky Mount on Senior Night. The Gryphons would love to prolong the Firebirds' losing streak there!   More »

Rocky Mount downed Union Pines 5-4 Wednesday to advance to round 3 of the NCHSAA 3-A girls dual team tennis playoffs.   More »

Hudgins signed with East Carolina out of Rocky Mount High School, where he played quarterback for Coach BW Holt and was named North Carolina's athlete of ...   More »

Larry Moore of Rocky Mount, US Army Ret., will be the featured speaker, along with former Congressman Virgil Goode. Wayne Outlaw of Rocky Mount, NC, ...   More »

The Rams took on 2A schools Edenton, Bertie and Currituck as well as 3A powerhouse Rocky Mount Senior High School. This was done to prepare NCHS-East for ...   More »

By GEOFFREY COOPER ROCKY MOUNT, NC — After years of putting drug addiction and prostitution ahead of her loved ones, Sandy Foster said she finally has ...   More »

The Milken Institute ranked Rocky Mount the #1 small metro in the US for high tech jobs. Forbes magazine ranked our region #7 nationally for the low cost of ...   More »

Waller, who attended District 7 Mount Pleasant High School, spent four seasons at Oklahoma before joining Lock Haven's staff this past summer. ...   More »

By Geoffrey Cooper Delayed funding for a new Rocky Mount High School has not stopped administrators from voicing what they say are top funding priorities. ...   More »

By LAURA MCFARLAND A day before the Rocky Mount Senior High School class of 1979 gathered to celebrate its 30th reunion, a time capsule the former ...   More »