Updated: 10:29 PM A minor traffic crash in Carteret County leads to drug charges for two teenagers.

Updated: 6:17 PM Police say the teenager had only been in the U.S. for three weeks.

Updated: 8:13 PM The Highway Patrol says a 64 year old man on a motorcycle lost control in a curve on Highway 70 near Newport, leading to a fatal crash.

Updated: 11:44 PM The final day of the 55th Annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament saw no blue marlins brought in, thus securing a large part of the $1.1 million prize purse.

Posted: 11:47 AM Craig Ethier of Newport is facing 13 counts of larceny and possession of stolen goods, as well as larceny of a firearm and obtaining property by false pretenses.

Updated: 9:55 PM The SBI and the Carteret County Fire Marshal are investigating what started a blaze that damaged three boats over the weekend, including two luxury yachts.

Updated: 7:52 PM Strong winds from Tropical Storm Andrea have made ferry travel between Ocracoke and both Cedar Island and Swan Quarter too dangerous, so the afternoon trips on those routes have been cancelled.

Updated: 12:29 PM Tropical Storm Andrea is expected to track over the east tomorrow, bringing with it several inches of rain, along with possibly rip currents and tornadoes.

Updated: 8:44 PM A Carteret County man accused of using social media as a registered sex offender is now behind bars.

Updated: 7:58 PM Officials say that the body of an ECU student has been recovered, after he was pulled out to sea by a rip current Saturday.

Updated: 11:38 PM A Newport man is behind bars accused by deputies of sex crimes involving a boy.

Updated: 2:13 PM Authorities say Michael Peters was armed with several handguns, firing them in each hand at deputies as he left his Highway 24 apartment.

Updated: 12:09 AM The acting police chief in Emerald Isle, Jeff Waters, has been promoted.

Updated: 10:36 PM In Atlantic Beach and Morehead City residents and business owners are preparing for the start of hurricane season which runs from June 1st to the end of November.

Posted: 5:56 AM People in neighborhood victimized by car break-ins over the weekend may be glad to know that there have been arrests in those cases.

Updated: 1:11 PM A mother accused of driving drunk with four young children in her minivan is scheduled to go back to court in July.

Posted: 11:13 AM A gas leak in the 900 block of Arendell Street in Morehead City has that area closed to traffic.

Updated: 7:58 PM Firefighters with the U.S. Forest Service and other agencies are working to extinguish a 40-acre wildfire that began Monday night in the Croatan National Forest.

Updated: 7:54 PM A local man is charged with beating another man with a baseball bat.

Updated: 8:22 PM The ongoing legal battle over who really won the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in 2010 is over.

Updated: 12:09 AM Just four days after he was rescued from his boat that was struck by lightning, a local sailor spoke to us about his adventure on the Sea Raven Monday, and his rescue after he set off emergency flares.

Updated: 7:01 PM The accounts payable manager for an Eastern Carolina company has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of stealing millions of dollars from the company.

Updated: 11:27 AM The National Hurricane Center is changing the way it talks about storm surge in hopes that emergency officials, the media and the public can better understand the dangerous phenomenon.

Updated: 5:47 AM The Emerald Isle bridge will open beginning at 7:00 a.m. Friday just in time for Memorial Day weekend.

Updated: 10:10 PM West Carteret junior Blake Dodge is our newest WITN Pepsi Player Of The Week.