President Barack Obama declared "there is a piece of Boston in me" as he paid tribute to a city shaken by what he has called an act of terror. He said: "Every one of us stands with you."

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Two Durham police officers have resigned after being accused of illegally restraining and assaulting a man earlier this year.

The Senate voted unanimously Wednesday for a bill to increase the maximum penalty for the most serious abuse charge from roughly 15 years to 33 years

Capt. James V. Clement faces charges that include conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman for failing to properly supervise junior Marines and making false statements to investigators.

Police are looking for help in identifying several people involved in an armed robbery outside a Greenville convenience store where the victim was pistol whipped.

Ayden Chief Barry Stanley says gunfire erupted around 11:20 p.m. and the two vehicles struck were parked across from each other on Lee Street.

A former justice of the peace has been charged with capital murder in the slayings of a North Texas district attorney and his assistant who prosecuted him for theft.

Police say their suspicions were correct after they found hundreds of bags of heroin inside a rental car.

Greenville police reports show investigators are still looking for the shooter who fired into a home.

A grand jury in Elizabeth City earlier this month charged Harry Mann in a multi-count indictement.

A Camp Lejeune marine accused of shooting and killing a 65-year-old grandmother in December at a Jacksonville bingo hall made his first appearance in court Wednesday afternoon.

Daniel Kavanaugh of Winterville is charged with four counts of embezzlement that police say happened between March of 2011 and last November.

Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Pam Walker says Trooper Marlon Williams was suspended without pay as of today.

Kinston police say the woman used the debit card at the Piggly Wiggly on North Herritage Street the same day it was stolen.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is calling the Boston marathon bombing that killed three and wounded more than 140 people a "cruel act of terror."

A week after a local district attorney said he would begin cracking down on illegal gaming, police have followed up.

A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that an 8-year-old-boy has been killed in the explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

The brother of a man already arrested for manufacturing meth faces the same charges.

A third Halifax County person is now charged in a dog fighting case busted earlier this month.

Sheriff Neil Elks says Marvin Bunting of Greenville was arrested on charges of felony assault by strangulation, misdemeanor simple assault, and misdemeanor interfering with emergency communications.

Beaulaville police today charged Donna Godbold with embezzlement, financial card fraud, and obtaining property under false pretense.

Elizabeth City State University police have released surveillance photos of several men wanted for questioning after a weekend shooting on campus.

Kinston Police say that a man walked into a Kinston emergency room after he said he had been robbed and shot.

One person is dead, another in the hospital after a shooting late Friday afternoon in Kinston.

Earl McLean, Jr. of Goldsboro has been charged with first degree kidnapping and first degree rape.