Updated: 9:54 PM East Carolina University students are taking final exams, and some dogs are helping students deal with their stress.

Posted: 7:54 PM A bill creating a separate approval and oversight board for taxpayer-funded charter schools in North Carolina has passed the state Senate.

Updated: 11:45 PM 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.

Posted: 12:15 PM Customs officials are being ordered "effective immediately" to verify that every foreign student arriving in the U.S. has a valid student visa.

Updated: 12:06 PM 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.

Updated: 10:02 AM A high school senior in the east is the first ever to be accepted to Harvard University from Pamlico County High School. It's s big deal for the small town of Bayboro.

Posted: 8:18 AM May 1 marks 106 years since the university came into existence. The school will mark the milestone by honoring its best and brightest.

Updated: 8:08 AM WITN's Teacher of the Week for May 1, 2013 is Vera Sykes from Pines Elementary School.

Updated: 4:33 PM The art students at Croatan High School in Carteret County are finalists in the annual Vans Custom Culture shoe design contest.

Updated: 2:04 PM UNC President Tom Ross says campus leaders and police chiefs are worried that allowing those weapons would increase public safety risks and hamper their ability to protect people on campus.

Updated: 5:15 AM Gates County Schools and Hertford County Schools are running on a delay this morning due to heavy fog.

Updated: 8:25 PM The Senate voted by a wide margin Thursday in favor of a bill directing state education leaders to ensure students are instructed how to write legibly in cursive by the end of fifth grade.

Updated: 5:42 PM A former assistant school superintendent has admitted he accepted gifts and favors from contractors while on the job.

Updated: 7:36 AM WITN's Teacher of the Week for April 24th, 2013 is Linda Salzman from Richlands Primary School.

Posted: 5:27 AM Gates County Schools are running on a one-hour delay this morning due to foggy conditions.

Posted: 9:01 PM A Greenville elementary school student beat out 1,200 other kids from around the world in the 2013 TIME For Kids poetry contest.

Updated: 10:22 PM A House bill approved by the Education Committee on Tuesday would require all public, charter and regional schools to keep at least two epinephrine pens on hand to be administered by trained personnel.

Updated: 11:53 PM Dr. Steven Taylor says he will retire at the end of June as superintendent of Wayne County Schools.

Updated: 7:38 AM The Teacher of the Week for Wednesday, April 17th is Rae-Ann Daughtry from South Creek High School in Robersonville in Martin County.

Posted: 4:48 AM Some North Carolina lawmakers want to turn tax credits for parents of children with disabilities or other special needs into cash grants so more low-income people can benefit.

Updated: 2:18 PM Beaulaville police today charged Donna Godbold with embezzlement, financial card fraud, and obtaining property under false pretense.

Posted: 2:52 PM The UNC Board of Governors selected Carol Folt on Friday. She becomes head of the country's oldest public university.

Updated: 5:49 PM North Carolina A&T was put on lockdown after reports of a man with a rifle on the Greensboro school's campus.

Updated: 7:34 AM Week 4: Kenansville Elementary School the site of Friday morning's final "How Cool Is Your School?" stop by WITN News at Sunrise.

Posted: 6:18 AM The governing board of North Carolina's public university system is set to name the new leader for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.