Pitt County dispatchers say the Family Dollar at 2530 Memorial Drive was robbed just after 10:00 p.m. Friday.

A bill filed earlier this week, calls for the regulation of what some lawmakers believe to be aggressive dog breeds in our state.

Bethel police are investigating a shooting into a house Friday night. It's believed it is the same house that was shot up almost two years ago to the day.

A Greenville woman who ran in the marathon Monday says she hopes the second suspect is taken alive so he can answer questions about the massacre.

The East Carolina University Department of Athletics announced Friday the official launch of its Celebrating 50 Years of Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium Campaign.

A Tarboro man has been charged after deputies say he hit a man over the head with a beer bottle after he found him with his mother.

Police said a local Walmart employee was caught dipping into the store's cash and stock.

The recent tragedies in Boston and West, Texas have emergency management and local first responders reviewing their response procedures.

After local strawberry farmers struggled with late and damaged crops due to cold weather and a virus from Canada, finally some farmers say their fields are almost ready for picking.

East Carolina University Police are bumping up security for the annual Pigskin Pig-Out and Saturday's Purple/ Gold Spring Football Game.

East Carolina completed the weekday practice portion of its spring schedule in warm and humid conditions Wednesday inside the Cliff Moore Complex, working for two hours under partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the low-80s.

There were 27,000 runners in the Boston Marathon Monday, and 20 of them were from eastern Carolina. WITN's Lynnette Taylor spoke with three of them who recall how the most rewarding day of their lives turned into the most horrific.

East Carolina’s softball team (18-25) saw its four-game winning streak snapped in an 8-0 defeat to No. 25 North Carolina (34-15) in five innings on Wednesday. The Pirates were limited to one hit and three base runners in the contest.

A couple with ties to eastern Carolina recounts the harrowing minutes following the explosions at the Boston Marathon.

Police are looking for help in identifying several people involved in an armed robbery outside a Greenville convenience store where the victim was pistol whipped.

Ayden Chief Barry Stanley says gunfire erupted around 11:20 p.m. and the two vehicles struck were parked across from each other on Lee Street.

Police say their suspicions were correct after they found hundreds of bags of heroin inside a rental car.

Greenville police reports show investigators are still looking for the shooter who fired into a home.

Ryan LaGrange collected a season-high four hits and drove in three runs helping No. 25 UNC Wilmington to a season sweep of East Carolina, 7-2, Tuesday night at Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.

Construction is underway on a $44-million dollar renovation project in Greenville.

Pitt-Greenville Airport operations manager Gordon Rowell says while they haven't amped up security following the Boston bombings, employees and security will be more vigilante.

The Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety was in Eastern Carolina Tuesday where we had a chance to ask him about security concerns in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Daniel Kavanaugh of Winterville is charged with four counts of embezzlement that police say happened between March of 2011 and last November.

East Carolina junior Drew Reynolds was named Conference USA Pitcher-of-the-Week after picking up both victories in the series win at Tulane the league office announced Monday.

Local runners who participated in Monday's Boston Marathon are beginning to return to Eastern Carolina.