Posted: 8:04 AM Members of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors meet behind closed doors Thursday to discuss UNC System President Tom Ross's regular annual review.

Updated: 8:23 PM Gov. Pat McCrory is scheduled to hold a news conference Thursday to discuss preparing for hurricanes. Saturday marks the start of the hurricane season.

Posted: 6:44 AM The Army staff sergeant charged with murdering 16 Afghan villagers during pre-dawn raids last year has agreed to plead guilty in a deal to avoid the death penalty.

Posted: 6:41 AM An insurance industry study says deaths in motorcycle crashes have been on the rise as states chip away at their helmet laws.

Posted: 12:33 AM In the wake of the deadly tornado that claimed lives and devastated communities in Moore, Oklahoma, The Ayden Chamber of Commerce in Pitt County is holding a "Stuff the Truck" drive.

Updated: 12:02 AM Deputies arrested a Washington man after they found marijuana in a diaper bag during a traffic stop in Belhaven.

Updated: 3:39 PM Everyone at WITN is gearing up for a big move to a brand new, state-of-the-art studio in Greenville, but we want you to know we are still keeping a presence in Washington as we move out of our Chocowinity studio where we began broadcasting in 1955.

Updated: 6:16 AM Police say the woman who caused the crash on Highway 70 and Webb Blvd. Wednesday night was leaving an ABC store when she collided with another vehicle, according to the Havelock News.

Posted: 8:55 PM The projected shortfall through June 30 has more than doubled since earlier this month to $330 million.

Posted: 8:43 PM A North Carolina man is headed to prison for threatening President Barack Obama through Twitter during the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

Updated: 8:21 PM An advocacy group is demanding a civil rights investigation into the death of a Chechen immigrant who was shot to death by authorities in central Florida while being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

Posted: 7:36 PM The House has confirmed two appointments of Gov. Pat McCrory to the North Carolina Utilities Commission and a third to represent consumer interests before the regulatory panel.

Updated: 7:34 PM Onslow County deputies say Robert Rochelle was killed in the January 22nd fire on Creative Lane outside of Jacksonville.

Posted: 5:29 PM Warm and sunny conditions will continue across the area on Thursday.

Posted: 4:36 PM The Army staff sergeant charged with murdering 16 Afghan villagers during pre-dawn raids last year has agreed to plead guilty in a deal to avoid the death penalty.

Updated: 7:34 PM Police said they caught the man they say opened fire into a car in the parking lot of an apartment complex.

Updated: 12:01 AM The effort to get executions restarted in North Carolina moved forward in Raleigh the same day the death penalty was handed down for a man accused of killing a 5-year-old girl.

Updated: 12:19 PM A military investigation has determined human error was to blame for a March mortar explosion that killed seven U.S. Marines in Nevada.

Updated: 10:52 AM Police said a traffic stop lead them to a man wanted for assaulting his ex-girlfriend with a tire iron.

Updated: 7:33 PM The deal to sell the pork producer that has multiple locations in Eastern Carolina is worth $4.7 billion.

Updated: 7:33 PM New Bern police are investigating a shooting in the city around 9:30 Tuesday night.

Updated: 7:43 AM Cherie Boyd from Eastern Elementary School in Washington for May 29, 2013.

Posted: 6:29 AM The Pew Research Center is reporting a milestone in the changing face of modern families.

Posted: 6:22 AM Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann says she will not run for another term in the U.S. House.

Posted: 6:12 AM A committee in the state senate will debate a bill that requires school boards to ensure all of their students can create readable cursive documents by the end of fifth grade and can show they've memorized multiplication tables.