After spending seven years in a Georgia prison for murder, a man from the east has been released and is now back home.

After claming self-defense in a fatal shooting back in 2005, John McNeil decided to plead guilty to manslaughter, and walked out of a Georgia prison on Tuesday night.

Obama said that his war goals could be achieved by bringing 34,000 U.S. troops home by this time next year, leaving somewhere between 32,000 and 34,000 to support and train Afghan forces.

Authorities have cancelled a Silver Alert for a missing Wayne County teenager.

Investigators in Wayne County have arrested a man in connection with a breaking and entering that could be involved in other felonies in a nearby county.

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

The body of Kennedy McLaurin was found September 22nd near Seven Springs after the 16-year-old was reported missing September 9th from a Goldsboro neighborhood.

Detectives say charges have been filed against a man accused of sexually abusing a girl several years ago.

A North Carolina woman has died after years of fighting for her husband's release from a Georgia prison because of the state's "stand your ground" self-defense law.

Deputies said though Alison Hill bonded out of jail on charges of manufacturing meth a little more than a month ago, she was re-arrested for similar crimes on Wednesday .

A gunfight between deputies and a man reportedly firing a gun inside his home ended when that man was shot.

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

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".

Police say they got a call around 7:00 a.m. to Seymour Drive for a person down.

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.

A woman convicted of larceny in the past is back behind bars, accused of stealing debit cards to pay her bills.

Police out of Mount Olive say a man has been arrested for several sex crimes involving a child.

Jessica Swinson of Mount Olive has been charged with unlawful obtaining a credit card, financial card fraud and obtaining property by false pretense.

Neighbors of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Wayne County are being warned of increased noise from low-level jet flights during an upcoming exercise.

A tractor-trailer caught fire after it hit a van in the emergency lane, causing authorities to close the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Wilson County.

Wilson Police say 21-year-old Quan Johnson, the man seen in the photo, was the victim of a homicide Friday.

Two men were arrested in Wayne County for nearly a dozen vehicle break-ins around Christmas.

A Silver Alert for a women that was last seen Sunday morning has been cancelled.

Wayne County deputies this morning arrested Shawnquel Futrelle at the Econolodge Inn in Goldsboro.

We found a few traditional events around eastern North Carolina. Please leave a comment about any fireworks events or events free to the public to ring in 2013.