Vanceboro Police have taken a mother into custody after her two-year-old child was found wandering down Main Street.

A New Bern woman and two of her daughters have been indicted for what the district attorney calls "systematic theft of large sums of money" from a medical practice. The mother is suspected of stealing more than $100,000.

Greenville Police say a man walked in to the Wilco-Hess at 3000 Stantonsburg Road around 1:30 Thursday morning and threatened the clerk with a knife, then took cigarettes.

The Obama administration has acknowledged that a Raleigh man wanted on federal terrorism charges has been killed in an overseas drone strike.

Close to 100 people gathered outside the Pitt County Courthouse in Greenville Wednesday to pay respects to the eleven law enforcement members from the county who died in the line of duty over the years.

Lenoir County officials say they detonated several pipe bombs found Wednesday afternoon and took a suspect into custody.

The U.S. Army has officially declared a Fort Bragg soldier dead, more than a year after she was last seen leaving a bar near the base.

Deputies say the shooting happened around 2:10 a.m. on Rocky Run Road, that's just outside of Jacksonville.

The FBI says a man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation.

We're working to get information on an apparent set of brothers, accused of break-ins in the east.

Police are searching for two men who they say tried to rob the Sheetz near ECU’s campus overnight.

Seven people are charged with a list of drug charges after a 15 month undercover drug operation by Ayden Police and the Pitt County Sheriff's Office. All of the suspects are from Ayden.

Deputies said a surveillance operation ended with two arrests and the seizure of 641 grams of marijuana.

Jodi Arias has told a jury that she can contribute to society from prison if she is allowed to live.

Deputies and officers are currently looking for an armed robbery suspect after a dollar store was robbed.

Federal prosecutors want to stop a former manager at a Navy bombing range from taking a cruise to the Bahamas, saying he may never return to face charges of stealing more than $6 million worth of scrap metal.

Police said they got a call of shots fired just before 1 a.m. on Tuesday near a Kinston Housing Authority development.

Deputies said a 24-year-old Camp Lejeune Marine broke into a home and then burned the molding around a window frame while people were inside the home.

Beaufort Police say two Marines helped hold a man until police could get there after they saw him toss outdoor furniture into the creek and destroy planters along the boardwalk.

A jewelry store employee from Plymouth tells us they were hit in the head by a robber while the store was held up Monday.

Kinston police say it happened around 2:25 p.m. in the 600 block of Lenoir Avenue.

Beaufort police say around 9:00 a.m. they were called to Front Street near Gerald Street about a package seen floating in Taylor's Creek.

North Carolina's Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper is opposing a state Senate budget provision that moves much of an investigative unit from his department to one headed by an appointee of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory.

Jones County deputies have charged Patrick Mahoney of Trenton with second degree arson, burning certain buildings, burning personal property and felony breaking and entering.

Michael Burgwardt was the manager of Summer Place Gardens off Peed Drive. The 64-year-old man was shot three times in the head, according to the medical examiner.