While lawmen battle gang activity in communities across the east, they're also doing it behind bars when gang members get locked up.

The 16-year-old was last seen around 10:30 a.m. on Highway 70 West outside of Goldsboro, between Leslie Road and Edgar Street.

A man accused of molesting a six-year-old relative back in 2010 has been found not guilty after a trial.

Authorities say 9-year-old Savannah Hardin of Alabama died after being forced to run for three hours as punishment for having lied to her grandmother about eating candy bars.

The district attorney responsible for prosecuting crimes in seven northeastern North Carolina coastal counties is facing complaints about his job performance from seven residents.

Two brothers have now been charged after their pit bull attacked a Duplin County deputy sheriff Wednesday evening.

Police in Greensboro say a 102-year-old man shot and wounded his 84-year-old wife before killing himself.

A jury returned the verdict Wednesday in the trial of 24-year-old George Huguely V for the May 3, 2010, beating death of Yeardley Love.

Students at East Carolina University got quite the show today when heading to class Wednesday thanks to the demonstration put on by the K-9 unit with the military police out of Fort Bragg.

Police say activity at a Kinston Bojangles this morning is not related to an armed robbery earlier at a Bojangles in Snow Hill.

The Pitt County Sheriff's Office opened a second substation in the county, this one in Grimesland, which hasn't had its own police station since the 1980s.

A Perquimans County man last seen Saturday night was found dead along a road by a bicyclist Tuesday afternoon.

A Wake County judge ruled this morning that prosecutors can use DNA evidence taken from a cigarette butt in the upcoming trial of a man accused of killing Kathy Taft.

Stephen Gathercole this morning admitted killing Edwin Yarbrough in his New Bern apartment in the summer of 2009.

Indictments by a Catawba County grand jury released Monday charge Mayfield with three counts of possessing property stolen from businesses, and a fourth charge of obtaining property by false pretense.

The Onslow County Justice Complex sits full of staff, but not prisoners, and the bill keeps rolling in. The county manager says Onslow County has had to continue paying utility bills on both buildings.

Three men who called for a taxi are now in jail after authorities say they stole the vehicle.

In 2009, Carteret County had the most prescriptions written in the east and the third highest in the entire state.

A former ECU student admitted today that he shot and killed his father more than a year ago in Greenville. Police say it was all done because his lies were catching up to him.

Martin County deputies say the mother and her four-year old daughter may be headed to Florida.

An employee of a Jacksonville pizza store spotted the three walking down the highway Sunday morning.

WITN has learned that one of the men accused in the hold up of a grocery store is now facing new charges.

Greenville police say the 25-year-old mother from Greenville is charged with the attempted murder of her six-year-old son.

An investigation is underway after Greenville police arrested a woman for attempted first degree murder.

According to Greenville police a Blood gang member is now behind bars facing drug trafficking charges after an extensive investigation.