Updated: 8:36 PM The convicted sex offender accused of abducting a 12-year-old girl from the east three weeks ago appeared before a Carteret County judge this morning.

Updated: 5:29 PM Andre Jones of Morehead City is charged with failing to change his address as a sex offender.

Updated: 11:41 PM Five Carteret County men have been arrested for child sex offenses or abduction cases in just a month's time.

Updated: 7:57 PM Dennis Jackson of Swansboro has been charged with the November 26th armed robbery at T&W Oyster Bar on Highway 58.

Updated: 10:24 PM Jeffrey Commander of Pine Knoll Shores is charged with indecent liberties with a child.

Posted: 12:36 AM Beaufort commissioners in Carteret County announced Monday the Front Street Village Project is almost 22 months ahead of schedule.

Updated: 7:59 PM The North Carolina Seafood Festival is now at an end, but not before a tradition took place intended to safe guard those who work on the high seas.

Updated: 10:01 AM If you haven't heard the name Guy Harvey, you've still probably seen his work. He's know for his paintings of blue marlins and other marine life. WITN spoke with Harvey at a North Carolina Seafood Festival event in Morehead City Friday.

Updated: 9:22 AM A landscaper got quite a scare Thursday morning when he came up on a hefty alligator at a nursery.

Updated: 11:44 PM Good eats, a chefs tent for those looking to learn something, and a boat show for the motor heads.

Updated: 7:43 PM Two teachers who were on the field trip to Fort Macon last week have resigned, according to the Havelock News. A high school senior almost drowned during the trip.

Updated: 9:41 PM The Carteret County School District says it will run out of money to fuel their school buses by the end of the school year.

Updated: 9:15 PM The new Amtrak bus connector service in several Eastern Carolina cities gets underway Wednesday.

Updated: 12:23 AM Five people, including two children, had to be hospitalized Saturday morning after a four vehicle crash in Newport.

Updated: 7:55 PM An autopsy says an elderly Carteret County woman died from a blow to her head. Her great niece has been charged with her murder.

Posted: 8:34 AM The Pamlico Sound is closing to all large-mesh gill net fishing because of problems with endangered sea turtles.

Updated: 11:50 PM All the rain we had in Eastern Carolina this year means a bad harvest for pumpkin farmers.

Updated: 7:52 PM Three men have been arrested for a series of burglaries that have happened at the beach. Police say they have recovered some $2,000 in stolen loot.

Updated: 9:48 PM A Carteret County teen wanted for statutory rape has been arrested.

Updated: 8:11 PM Authorities say a registered sex offender has exposed himself yet again to people in his neighborhood, this time to a mother and her adult daughter.

Updated: 11:31 PM Two men with a history of drug related crimes were arrested in Carteret County for trafficking cocaine.

Posted: 5:51 PM Trooper J.A. Tucker says Roger Applewhite, Jr. of Morehead City was killed at the scene. The 39-year-old man was thrown from the moped.

Updated: 9:04 PM Five people in Carteret County are being treated against rabies after coming into contact with an infected kitten.

Updated: 8:12 PM West Carteret senior running back Jojo Grant is our newest Pepsi Player Of The Week.

Updated: 11:39 PM Dawn Amen's son Jesse Cox was arrested Monday night, and is accused of setting the house on fire and stabbing his step-sister's boyfriend Aaron Quinn.