Updated: 5:18 AM Deputies said a checkpoint lead to a marijuana bust in both a vehicle and the driver's home.

Updated: 6:17 PM Police said a call of shots fired just before 1 a.m. on Friday turned into a murder investigation.

Updated: 11:26 PM On May 14th the victim accidentally left his wallet behind on the counter at the Kangaroo Express on West Vernon Avenue in Kinston while he filled out a money order.

Updated: 11:34 PM The U.S. Department of Labor is investigation the Emergency Management Services in Greene County, according to a report.

Updated: 6:12 PM Stephen LaRoque has been on trial in Greenville for nearly three weeks. The jury this morning found him guilty on all counts after deliberations that spanned three days.

Updated: 8:36 PM Deputies said a neighborhood watch group is taking drug crime seriously, and their observance is part of the reason why an active meth lab was busted over the weekend.

Updated: 7:53 PM Lenoir County deputies said an investigation counties away lead them to a Kinston firefighter's home where they found evidence of that man sharing child pornography.

Posted: 2:02 PM A man wanted in a church break-in has been arrested after a short chase with police Thursday night.

Updated: 9:10 PM Highway Patrol said troopers are on the scene of a tractor trailer wreck in Lenoir County.

Updated: 10:51 AM Greene County Sheriff Lemmie Smith confirmed with WITN that his chief jailer was arrested Thursday.

Updated: 10:52 AM Police said a traffic stop lead them to a man wanted for assaulting his ex-girlfriend with a tire iron.

Updated: 7:33 PM The deal to sell the pork producer that has multiple locations in Eastern Carolina is worth $4.7 billion.

Updated: 7:53 PM A woman hit by a train Monday in Kinston has been identified.

Updated: 7:56 PM A man is locked up in the east accused of multiple sexual crimes including incest and indecent liberties with a child.

Posted: 11:15 AM 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

Updated: 7:01 PM 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.

Updated: 10:17 PM 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.

Updated: 10:20 PM 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.

Updated: 5:45 PM 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.

Updated: 8:00 PM Police said they got a call of shots fired just before 1 a.m. on Tuesday near a Kinston Housing Authority development.

Updated: 3:54 PM Kinston police say it happened around 2:25 p.m. in the 600 block of Lenoir Avenue.

Updated: 9:47 PM The attorney for a former state representative blames the liberal media for bringing about the charges against his client.

Updated: 10:57 PM Greene Central junior Robby Taylor is our newest WITN Pepsi Player Of The Week.

Updated: 2:40 AM 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.

Updated: 8:11 PM 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.