Kim Flournoy of Jacksonville was murdered December 30th outside TNT Bingo and her 14-year-old cat was apparently abandoned.

Criminal penalties for people who disrupt a funeral or memorial service would get tougher under a bill approved by a House judiciary committee.

The Jacksonville-Onslow Chamber of Commerce has named a new president.

Deputies have yet to release more information on the January 22nd death of Robert Rochelle.

Hundreds of Marines and Sailors stationed right here in the east made it home Thursday night after a six-month deployment.

Jacksonville Police kept their badges, but rolled up their sleeves for a different type of work Friday.

The Onslow County Sheriff's Office said on Friday that after a week long investigation, they have pinpointed the culprit behind the Facebook threat of violence at Swansboro Middle School on Monday: a 15-year-old girl.

Wilmington police are investigating a rash of home invasions in recent weeks.

Marine Corps officials would not say where in the New River the 29-ton vehicle sank on Tuesday.

Overall, the job market took a downturn in the last month of 2012 in the state of North Carolina.

Students at the Coastal Carolina Community College now have 700 new books to read thanks to a generous Jacksonville woman.

Some congratulations are in order for a Marine spouse here in the East.

A Jacksonville church's plan to use a dead vulture to ward away the live ones seems to be working.

The N.C. Highway Patrol says troopers had responded to more than 250 calls by late Friday afternoon.

Dozens of flights have been canceled and delayed between Charlotte, Atlanta and eastern carolina.Check the links below for the latest flight information for local airports.

Jacksonville Police say they want to make sure an incident like the one Wednesday where a handcuffed teenager is charged with stealing the police car he was in and crashing it into a house never happens again.

Congressman Walter Jones of Farmville says President Barack Obama should be focused on maintaining "our military as the best fighting force in the world, not using it to advance his social agenda".

Furnace repair companies, like Davis Heating and AC in Jacksonville, have some of their busiest days on the coldest days of the year.

Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military's ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after more than a decade at war.

With a bandaged arm and an injured finger, a teenager who was charged with stealing a Jacksonville police cruiser appeared before a judge this afternoon.

Progress Energy says power has been restored to everyone following an early morning outage.

Blockbuster confirms that it will close two of its stores here in Eastern Carolina. The company says it will shut down approximately 300 locations nationwide.

Surf City police say around 3:20 a.m. on January 9th someone broke into the Tsunami Surf Shop.

Onslow County deputies say a suspected meth lab may have been involved in a fatal fire this morning.

A new high rise bridge will be built over the intracoastal waterway to Topsail Island in Pender County. The project will replace a swing bridge that is nearly 60 years old.