At about 10 a.m. on March 24, Lt. D. Hundley and Master Officer N. Powell with the Roanoke Rapids Police Department were traveling east on Highway 158 conducting traffic enforcement.
With a recent $15 million infusion in hand from the U.S. Department of Defense, Salmon, Idaho-based mining company Jervois Mining USA—a subsidiary of Australian mining company Jervois Global—will start exploratory