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.

The spotty rain showers will increase on Monday, with high temperatures staying well below normal.

A man in the east is locked up, accused of sex crimes involving a child.

The driver of a limousine that burst into flames on a San Francisco Bay area bridge, killing five women, says he at first misunderstood what one of the passengers in the back was saying when she complained about smelling smoke.

A Halifax County woman is in stable condition after Sheriff’s officials say that a woman was assaulted by her ex-boyfriend with a baseball bat.

Another North Carolina county is being warned about a possible lawsuit because county commissioners frequently open public meetings with Christian prayers.

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.