Jones County deputies have charged Patrick Mahoney of Trenton with second degree arson, burning certain buildings, burning personal property and felony breaking and entering.

The Kenansville community in Duplin County is coming together to help a family pay medical bills for a baby girl with brain cancer.

State inspectors visited the Trenton gas station Tuesday morning to see if there is really a problem.

Authorities say the driver of a Jeep that crossed the center line of Highway 17 in Jones County and struck a log truck Monday night remains in intensive care and is expected to be charged when he is released.

No students were hurt in what appears to be another hit and run accident involving a log truck, this time with a school bus.

Police said it took about a month, but they have now arrested two people in a murder-for-hire plot.

The Highway Patrol says that 7 people were injured in a single vehicle wreck in Jones County Saturday, including children.

The U.S. Postal Services has reversed course on closing a half dozen Eastern Carolina post offices on Saturdays and Wednesday afternoons.

Cruz Abney was wanted on some 18 warrants, as well as being an absconder from the parole system.

The Highway Patrol has identified two drivers that were killed Friday afternoon in an Onslow County accident.

Troopers say the driver ran off the left side of the road, hit a driveway culvert, overturned and then caught fire. Both victims died at the scene.

A new brewery opened in the small town of Trenton in Jones County Friday with a ribbon cutting. The town with a population of about 300 people is home to the new Beer Army Brewery.

Beaulaville police today charged Donna Godbold with embezzlement, financial card fraud, and obtaining property under false pretense.

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

Harvey Pridgen of Nashville will also have to serve a year of supervised release that includes six months of home confinement with electronic monitoring and pay a $300,000 fine.

Law enforcement in three eastern North Carolina counties say a tip led them to a suspected meth trafficker where they found a pound of the drug worth $45,000 in his car.

Edgecombe County is ranked number one in the state for several sexually transmitted diseases.

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

Already, Cumberland and Wake counties launched a crackdown of the businesses after the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the 2010 law banning sweepstakes games late last year.

Troopers are still trying to find out why a bicyclist was riding in the middle of a travel lane on a dark highway when he was hit and killed Tuesday night.

A motocross training facility along Highway 58 in Jones County is bringing people from all over the world into Maysville.

Town leaders broke ground on the first of many projects. The idea is to revitalize downtown Maysville, improving the appearance starting with the right-of-way in front of the Piggly Wiggly.

Zatrick Webber of Maysville was arrested today by Jones County deputies on charges of intentional child abuse with severe bodily injury and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.

A Chapel Hill company says it now has four such farms under construction in Duplin County , two in Lenoir County and another in Wayne County and plan many more.

The Highway Patrol says Rockel Garner of Kinston was killed in the 5:22 a.m. accident on East Middle Road in Jones County.