An all-day search yielded no sign of a 7-year-old boy missing since Monday evening. The child, whose name has not been released, fell into the Tar River off Hodges Road in Franklinton and hasn't been ...

The City of Rocky Mount announced a 1.7 million gallon sewage overflow into the Tar River. According to the city, the overflow was detected from a utility hole under the trestle on River Side Drive.

Since March 17, dive teams, swift water rescue crews, K-9s and multiple agencies searched 11 miles of the Tar River and its shorelines, totaling more than 100 hours. One searcher described the river’s ...