How to pick up trash and criminals were both up for debate at Greenville's city council meeting Monday night.

Dozens of North Carolina coastal fishermen are making their voices heard on legislation that would essentially prevent commercial boats from catching and selling three fish species.

Senate Republicans have rolled out the frame of their tax overhaul plan for North Carolina they say will cut income tax rates while expanding the scope of the sales tax.

Troopers have identified a man killed in a head on collision with a tractor trailer Monday afternoon.

A man arrested less than 30 minutes after robbing a Greenville bank has pleaded guilty to the crime.

Scary moments Sunday night for people in one Pitt County neighborhood when a bear, enjoying some trash, trapped them in their car.

A special needs student from Carteret County has won a national writing competition.

The state says the Humane Society Shelter in Carteret County has two months to fix some major issues before its doors are forced closed.

Another candidate has entered his name in the race for sheriff in Beaufort County.

A Cleveland police official says a 6-year-old girl found in the house where three missing women were kept for years is the daughter of one of them.

The Senate sided with traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping - for many a largely tax-free frontier - to state sales taxes.

Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more.

Law enforcement officers biking up the east coast to honor fallen officers made a pit stops in the east Monday and Tuesday..

A humid but mild air mass will produce scattered showers through Tuesday across the area.

The brother of a New York native killed in Afghanistan says his sibling and another Marine were slain by an Afghan soldier they were training.

Pitt County District Attorney Kimberly Robb says Kendrick Fitchett and Demetrius Crumble pleaded guilty as charged to felony cruelty to animals this morning.

John Giltz pleaded guilty to second degree murder this morning in Onslow County Superior Court.

The shooting happened back on April 27th in the parking lot of Sheraton Village Apartments on Landmark Street in Greenville around 1:00 a.m.

Deputies say a man who was arrested nearly two months ago for an armed robbery returned to the scene of the crime only to be arrested once again.

Study finds most parents admit to using cell phones or other devices while driving with their kids.

A new U.S. Census report finds that Greenville is No. 2 in the country for its percentage of recent unmarried mothers.

A week of detouring around roadwork starts for some Lenoir County drivers Monday.

A forum about fish has some people headed from the coast to the capitol today.

The Greenville Police Department listed six goals for the next three years, including reducing crime in the city.

A Cambridge city official says it would not be in the interest of "peace within the city" to execute a cemetery deed for a plot at Cambridge Cemetery for the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.