Investigators say the gunman was described by witnesses as a six-foot-tall black male wearing a bright colored T-shirt and with a tattoo on the left side of his face. He was seen fleeing while driving a silver sedan.

A suspect is behind bars on several theft charges related to recent thefts at the ECU Rec Center.

Shakeyta Woolard of Greenville and Keri Kenlaw of Washington were both killed in the home on Academy Drive.

One of the five people charged with last summer's murder of a deputy sheriff in Kinston is now facing even more charges.

The latest happened Thursday afternoon in the 800 block of East Bright Street.

A teen is charged with firing at a rival gang member, but instead hitting the rival's aunt.

A hit and run investigation is underway in one city in the east.

One sheriff's office is crediting an anonymous tip for helping them carrying out drug busts at two different places.

The suspects are facing several charges, including trafficking in amphetamine, commonly known as speed.

The owner of a store suspected of selling the banned synthetic marijuana known as spice has been arrested.

Our self-defense laws are more limited than Florida's, according to Pitt County District Attorney Clark Everett. Even if the laws were the same, locals involved in community watch groups say the whole situation could have possibly been prevented.

Police say Saturday officers responded to 1801 East 1st Street in reference to a burglary and tracked down the suspect 29-year-old Jermaine Doughty nearby.

Jones County deputies say they seized some 700 ecstasy pills in the glove box of an SUV that was stopped at a vehicle checkpoint.

Jonathan Nixon and James Powell were arrested shortly after the shooting on Blandwood Drive in Rocky Mount and initially charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.

Police made an arrest in a robbery, just minutes after cash from the register was taken last night.

Two people suspected of trying to dismantle antique farm equipment to steal the metal are under arrest after crashing their SUV when Martin County Deputies started chasing them.

Additional security measures are being put into place at Southern Nash High School after a student was slashed on her throat. This as charges against a 15-year-old have been upgraded to attempted first degree murder.

Gunfire rang out in one Kinston neighborhood near an alternative school, forcing it into lockdown for about a half hour.

Greenville police ended up arresting one of those involved in a domestic dispute Monday night, but not for what they originally went there for.

The 85-year-old man told a judge he'd been married "60 years or more" and denies trying to kill his wife, but deputies have a different story.

Two suspected drug traffickers are off the streets and behind bars this morning.

Troopers say on Saturday 35-year-old Raymark Bembury avoided their check points set up on Stantonsburg Road in Greenville around 11:45 p.m.

46-year old Kevin Sinclair says two men agreed to take him to Greenville, but instead he says they took him to a secluded area and beat and stabbed him and then robbed his cell phone and wallet.

Twenty-nine-year-old Paul Canally was charged Monday with a sex offense involving a person between the ages of 13 and 15.

Pitt County deputies began investigating the alleged assault last Monday at Hope Middle School after a 12-year-old girl said she had been assaulted.