Work on five story $40 million state of the art student housing complex in downtown Greenville will soon get underway.

Heather Macy was tabbed the Coach of the Year while ECU's Kristine Mial was named C-USA Sixth Player of the Year.

East Carolina senior Maurice Kemp is league's second-leading scorer with an average of 18.4 points per game and ranks among the top 50 nationally.

IRVING, Texas – East Carolina’s David Lucroy has been named Conference USA Pitcher-of-the Week following his two-hit complete game shutout against Monmouth the league office announced Monday. This is Lucroy’s first weekly honor and the first for the Pirates in 2013.

Deputies in a neighboring county said they found the vehicle and then the man behind the wheel from a sporadic hit and run caught on camera.

Greenville Police need your help identifying a woman who they say stole from the Wal-Mart.

A drug investigation by Greenville Police ends with two arrests where one of the suspects is charged with selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a school.

Senior Tynita Butts matched a career-best and ECU school-record mark to place second and earn her fifth all-time All-America selection in the high jump Friday.

Chris Perrett’s RBI sac fly in the 10th inning helped Monmouth to an extra inning opening series win over East Carolina (7-5) Friday night at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.

A star football player for the ECU Pirates has been suspended indefinitely after he was cited Thursday night by ECU Police for misdemeanor possession of marijuana.

A Pitt County deputy sheriff, suspended last month after a bar fight, has now been charged.

Police said they arrested a man wanted in Maryland, with a history of assaulting officers, in the east.

Whitny Edwards led ECU with 17 points, but the Pirates were unable to overcome a balanced offense from Southern Miss as the Golden Eagles defeated East Carolina, 75-66.

WITN had the only video cameras at the Pitt County Detention Center Thursday morning as Shameika Smith made her first appearance on attempted murder charges.

Maurice Kemp scored 29 points and pulled down nine rebounds to lead the East Carolina Pirates to an 88-85 win over the Tulane Green Wave.

A former Pitt Community College student was sentenced for a deadly hit and run in 2011 on East 5th Street in Greenville that killed one of his passengers and injured three others.

The scheduled non-conference baseball game today at Old Dominion has been cancelled due to rain and wet grounds Monarch officials announced Wednesday morning. The two teams will attempt to make-up the game at a future date.

A man who already is accused of impersonating a federal law enforcement officer is now back behind bars on more serious charges.

ECU senior center Britny Edwards averages 9.7 points and 8.2 rebounds per game for the 21-7 Pirates, but what you may not know is that one of East Carolina's best players is legally deaf.

Philip Clark and Chase McDonald each collected a pair of hits and drove in three runs helping East Carolina (7-4) to an 11-9 midweek victory over UNC Greensboro (6-4) Tuesday night at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.

For the first time since 9/11, travelers are going to be able to bring small knives onto airplanes.

In a unanimous vote just after 4 p.m. Wednesday, East Carolina University voted to hire Jeff Compher as the new athletics director.

North Carolina House leaders say the process to create a bill requiring photo identification for citizens to vote will be slow so lawmakers can receive public input about what such a mandate should look like.

Greenville police say it happened early Saturday morning in the parking lot of the Economy Inn on Stantonsburg Road.

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.