The East Carolina Council says it stands with the Boy Scouts of America and its decision to allow gay youth to participate in Scouting, but not allow gay adults to participate as adult volunteers

Family members of missing elderly couple, one of which became subject of a Silver Alert Thursday, tell WITN they have been missing for more than a month.

It's not a common find for law enforcement in the east, but Lenoir County deputies confiscated 19 poppy plants from Kristofer Tyson's home Wednesday.

Greene County Middle School was wiped out by a tornado a couple years ago. Repairs are nearly complete, and students and staff are excited to finally be back in their school this fall.

Troopers said bald tires and slick roads are likely to blame for a wreck that sent a 9-month-old baby and his mother to the hospital Tuesday afternoon.

Police said they got a call of shots fired just before 1 a.m. on Tuesday near a Kinston Housing Authority development.

Kinston police say it happened around 2:25 p.m. in the 600 block of Lenoir Avenue.

The attorney for a former state representative blames the liberal media for bringing about the charges against his client.

Greene Central junior Robby Taylor is our newest WITN Pepsi Player Of The Week.

Kinston police say a peanut truck tipped over just before 8 p.m. Tuesday on Highway 11, closing a portion of the northbound highway just south of Cunningham Road until around 10:30 p.m.

ECU says it is investigating the discovery of a video possibly recorded in a campus locker room by a man already convicted of doing the same thing in Wake County.

Officials say an electrical short caused an early morning house fire that did $100,000 in damage.

Three people were wounded in two separate shootings over the weekend in Kinston, and police have named a suspect in one of those shootings.

Here in Eastern Carolina towers at airports in Kinston and New Bern had been slated to close.

Week 3: Greene Early College High School in Greene County was the site of Friday morning's third "How Cool Is Your School?" stop by WITN News at Sunrise.

Volunteers from Lenoir and Greene counties were called out just before 9:00 a.m. to the fire on Skeeter Pond Road, near Hugo Road. That's in Lenoir County, just west of Grifton.

Blockbuster is apparently closing more locations in Eastern Carolina, including both Greenville stores.

A week of detouring around roadwork starts for some Lenoir County drivers Monday.

Kinston's 32nd annual barbecue festival on the Neuse has Kinston leaders enjoying a business boom for the town.

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

A teenage driver from Greenville is charged with driving drunk after troopers say he slammed his car into a tree and house in Lenoir County Thursday night. He and his passenger walked away with no major injuries.

Kinston police Thursday asked the public's help in identifying a man who was a person of interest in a stolen car case.

Several events are planned across the area to mark the National Day of Prayer.

Kinston police have charged Tymone Murphy with two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon.

The second of four men indicted in a multi-million dollar insurance fraud scheme has been convicted.