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.

The North Carolina NAACP is preparing for another round of protests at the General Assembly following the arrest of 17 activists.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield said Friday many customers who buy individual policies will see prices climb by more than 18 percent in 2014, the average increase for small groups. About 10 percent of Blue Cross customers bought their own coverage last year

Windy and cool conditions will continue across the area on Saturday.

The Highway Patrol has identified two drivers that were killed Friday afternoon in an Onslow County accident.

A group of 20 New Bern women are working hard to keep the history alive so to speak at the Cedar Grove Cemetery as members of the Earl of Craven Questers.

The North Carolina Highway Patrol has stopped providing free wreck reports at its county offices.

Customs officials are being ordered "effective immediately" to verify that every foreign student arriving in the U.S. has a valid student visa.

Bear Grass Charter School in Martin County was the site of Friday morning's second "How Cool Is Your School?" stop by WITN News at Sunrise.

State officials say thousands of people with medical problems are in danger of losing coverage as the Obama administration winds down one of the earliest programs in the federal health care overhaul.

Tyrrell County Sheriff Darryl Liverman says his deputies and officers with the North Carolina Community Corrections searched the home on Basnight Lane.

Marines said one of the few and the proud earned his newest combat medal while still a lance corporal as he helped make sure a fallen Marine got home.

An overnight fire at the Labor Department's headquarters has shut the building down for most employees.

An American military tanker refueling plane carrying three crew members crashed Friday in the rugged mountains of Kyrgyzstan.

Jailers said a local man was behind bars, accused of trafficking drugs.

A teenage driver from Greenville is charged with driving drunk after troopers say he slammed his car into a tree and house in Lenoir County Thursday night. He and his passenger walked away with no major injuries.

WITN's Dave Jordan was the emcee Thursday night for the first ever International Taste of Greenville fundraiser for Vidant Children's Hospital, which serves 29 counties in Eastern North Carolina.

An Emerald Isle street now bears the name of a courageous man who meant a lot to his community in honor of him giving his life in the line of duty working for the U.S. Coast Guard. As of Thursday, Station Street was renamed Terrell Horne III Way.

Rhode Island has become the 10th state to allow same-sex couples to marry following Gov. Lincoln Chafee's signature of gay marriage legislation.

A bill outlawing any contract that makes union hiring a requirement has passed the North Carolina House.The proposal was approved Thursday over the objections of Democrats who said it violates the National Labor Relations Act.

Mild temperatures with clouds giving way to sunshine across eastern Carolina on Friday.