Rocky Mount makes your retirement dollars stretch like taffy. The cost of living here won’t make you break out in a cold sweat. You can buy a nice house for what you’d pay for a fancy car elsewhere.

For the third time, Robert Roberson III is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection next month in Texas. Roberson, 58, was convicted of capital murder in 2003 for reportedly shaking his 2-year-old ...