North Carolina's shortage of options to treat the mentally ill means county jails hold thousands of sick inmates, costing taxpayers big bucks as they wait for weeks or months to be evaluated or treated.

Deputies say they have arrested three men and are searching for two more after a man was shot in the head outside a convenience store.

Lou Cacal of Newport was charged this morning by the Highway Patrol with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle and failure to yield right of way.

Undercover operations by police in one city in the east lead to two weapons charges

Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles believed to be on their way to Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, officials and activists said.

National Rifle Association leaders told members Saturday that the fight against gun control legislation is far from over, with battles yet to come in Congress and next year's midterm elections, but they vowed that none in the organization will ever have to surrender their weapons.

Lawyers for a man charged with lying to investigators after the Boston Marathon bombings are asking a federal judge to release him from jail, saying he had nothing to do with the deadly bombings and isn't a flight risk.

A slow moving low pressure system will bring plenty of showers to Eastern Carolina starting Sunday.

A 20-year-old Wilmington man has been charged with murder in the death of his father.

Officials say that repairs have been completed on the water system that resulted in a loss of water for residents in one Duplin County town.

A man is locked up in the Pitt County Detention Center for felony burglary.

An emergency dispatcher says that a family was able to escape a fire Saturday morning.

The public face of the National Rifle Association is imploring members to never surrender their weapons in the wake of recent gun control efforts in Congress that he said will "destroy us and every ounce of our freedom."

North Carolina's governor is this week's speaker in the weekly Republican address opposite President Barack Obama.

A delivery truck driver has been sentenced to four months in jail for running over and killing two young boys in Charlotte.

Authorities say the 25-year-old boyfriend of a Long View woman killed her 1-year-old son and hurt her 3-year-old daughter while babysitting them.

The incoming leader of the National Rifle Association has a long history with the powerful gun rights lobby and a penchant for bold statements that are sure to enflame an already explosive national debate over gun control.

President Barack Obama said Friday he doesn't foresee any circumstance requiring the U.S. to send ground troops into Syria, even as Washington pursues more evidence about the regime's purported use of chemical weapons.

The Homeland Security Department ordered border agents "effective immediately" to verify that every international student who arrives in the U.S. has a valid student visa, according to an internal memorandum obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The new procedure is the government's first security change directly related to the Boston bombings.

Shriners and volunteers were dipping, frying and serving flounder, hush puppies and coleslaw in Jacksonville Friday. It was their annual fish fry that's been a tradition since 1953.

Eighteen-year-old David Cole Withrow was arrested Monday on a felony charge of bringing a weapon onto school grounds after he left the guns in his car at Princeton High School.

An ordinance that would force Ayden commercial property owners to keep a minimum upkeep of their downtown buildings is being considered.

Kinston's 32nd annual barbecue festival on the Neuse has Kinston leaders enjoying a business boom for the town.

Nearly 350 violently injured pelicans were found washed ashore on Topsail Island back in 2010, and volunteers and experts say this spring 30 birds were found dead or seriously injured on beaches.

The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested 5 people after a report they were using heroin in the Washington Walmart parking lot this week.