Among those who had hoped Cindi Griffith would keep the older home is Tony Award-winning costume designer William Ivey Long, whose parents were friends with Griffith.
For many people here in the east, ferries are a crucial means of transportation. But if a new rule is approved, users could be paying a heavy price to get from point A to point B.
A young woman from Kill Devil Hills says she was denied a prom dress because her mother wasn't with her. The trouble is -- the teen's mother passed away from cancer two years ago.
On the same day the state Transportation Department is hosting a meeting to discuss a long-term solution for the section of N.C. Highway 12 breached by Hurricane Irene in 2011, that part of the road is closed due to high water.
A century and a half after the Civil War ship the USS Monitor sank, two unknown crewmen found in the ironclad's turret are now buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
The lone survivor of a fishing boat from Eastern Carolina that was lost off the Maryland coast says the biggest wave he had ever seen destroyed the ship in seconds.
The state's insurance companies and the top state regulator have agreed that homeowner's insurance policies can rise by a statewide average of 7 percent starting in July.
Cardiac arrest, like that which a volunteer firefighter suffered while battling a brush fire and later died, is a major cause of death for firefighters on the job, according to those in the business.
The National Park Service wants to hear from the public on a proposed fee increase for climbing the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and a new fee for the Bodie Island Lighthouse, which has been renovated and will reopen to visitors later this year.
The federal prosecution of five former employees of the private security firm Blackwater has collapsed after the defendants said they were acting at the direction of the CIA by providing five automatic rifles as gifts to King Abdullah of Jordan.
The Northe Carolina Department of Transportation will hold a series of public meetings next month to discuss long term solutions for NC 12 at the Pea Island breach in Dare County.
