The state Department of Transportation began installing toll booths at several ferry terminals Monday.

Week 4: Kenansville Elementary School the site of Friday morning's final "How Cool Is Your School?" stop by WITN News at Sunrise.

Nearly 200 athletes across two Eastern Carolina counties came together Wednesday to compete and have some fun at the Special Olympics Spring Games.

Flames from the home on Pinetree Drive leaped some 40 feet in the air and witnesses say they heard some type of explosion.

The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report about a fatal plane crash that took the lives of a local couple.

The Williamston center handles communications for Troop A, which is made up of 20 counties, east of I-95.

Dale Cole, principal of Chocowinity Middle School was named the 2013 Wells Fargo North Carolina Principal of the Year in Cary.

We now have the name of the woman killed in a head on collision Thursday morning.

Shykeem Moore of Washington has been charged with felony flee to elude arrest, resisting a public officer, driving while impaired and driving while license revoked.

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Wilkerson Funeral Home of Greenville says a Washington couple killed in a plane crash in Winston-Salem Sunday will have a funeral service Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. at Rock Springs Center in Greenville.

Legislation has been introduced in both the NC House & Senate to eliminate tolls and authorize the Ferry Division to raise revenue in other ways.

Beaufort County Deputies arrested a man they say was selling drugs out of his home which is less than 1,000 feet from a local elementary school.

Two people are behind bars after sheriffs deputies found heroin in their vehicle during a traffic stop in Washington.

Mary Walker of Blounts Creek has been charged with second degree arson.

Charges have been dismissed against a former Highway Patrol trooper and a registered nurse in an alleged prescription drug scheme that saw six people indicted.

For many people here in the east, ferries are a crucial means of transportation. But if a new rule is approved, users could be paying a heavy price to get from point A to point B.

Pelicans are turning up dead in the Pamlico River and officials say the culprit is commercial fishing nets.

Cocoa, Florida police say Marcus Royal turned himself in to police in Richmond. Royal was wanted for Sunday's murder of 82-year-old Faye Jones in her Cocoa home.

Plans for a proposed mine in Beaufort County have residents nearby protesting its construction. They aren't worried about the mine itself, but the waste and ground water coming from it.

The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office says a traffic stop lead them to three suspected heroin dealers.

There are more charges brought against a Pitt County man in a string of arson cases in two counties.

An investigation that started over shots fired and an assault last month has led to charges for a man already behind bars.

Catholics, non-Catholics, and church leaders from across Eastern Carolina are all reacting to the selection of a new Pope, the first from the Americas.

Less than two years after being hired, Washington city manager Josh Kay has submitted his resignation and has taken a job in South Carolina with a utility provider.