Authorities say 10 Swain County High School students have been suspended after a video of them fighting with boxing gloves on in a locker room began to spread around the school.

Cheerleading teams from seven high schools in Eastern Carolina are set to compete Saturday at Washington High School in Beaufort County.

Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill want the school to divest its endowment from the coal industry, and they want to make that request to the board of trustees.

WITN's teacher of the week for February 13th, 2013 is Helen Vines.

Elon University's lawyers want the state Supreme Court to rule campus police shouldn't be subject to a North Carolina law requiring public disclosures though officers have arrest and other powers.

The East Carolina University Student Media program has a new director following some controversial decisions over the past year.

Surveillance video of the stabbing was played for the judge in court. In it, Robb says Spell put on gloves, looked for Daniels in the hallway, then came up behind him and stabbed him.

Take pride in the grid- that's the motto for ECU students as they start cleaning up the university neighborhood Saturday. The University Neighborhood Association announced at a Greenville town hall meeting last month it organized the event

60 Onslow County middle school math whizzes grabbed their calculators and their pencils Friday morning to compete in Mathcounts.

J.T. Barber Elementary School in New Bern celebrated a traditional Chinese New Year Friday for the 7th straight year.

Debra Saunders-White was named Friday as the 11th leader of North Carolina Central University, a historically black university in Durham.

North Carolina's state school board is considering a stand against using physical pain to enforce discipline even as the number of children paddled in public schools falls fast.

WITN's Teacher Of The Week For February 6th, 2013 is Regina Austin, who teaches special education at Riverside High School in the Martin County town of Williamston.

A gun-rights group says North Carolina's school principals and teachers should have the right to carry concealed firearms into the classroom.

Pitt County Schools Superintendent Beverly Emory is calling them "focus groups"- groups that she's sitting down with at schools across the county to address potential revisions of the athletic eligibility policy for student athletes.

The federal government's push for drastic reforms at chronically low achieving schools has led to takeovers by charter operators, overhauls of staff and curriculum, and even school shutdowns across the country.

The Onslow County Sheriff's Office said on Friday that after a week long investigation, they have pinpointed the culprit behind the Facebook threat of violence at Swansboro Middle School on Monday: a 15-year-old girl.

The government for the first time is proposing broad new standards to make school snacks healthier, a move that would ban the sale of almost all candy, high-calorie sports drinks and greasy foods on campus.

The Adopt-A-School program serves elementary schools in Greenville that do not have school resource officers.

A state senator is proposing to let North Carolina public schools create "safety marshals" who would know how to use a gun during a campus crisis.

On the same day a school shooting was reported in Atlanta, Pitt County law enforcement officials were looking to prevent shootings from happening at schools here.

The suspension of a high school football coach will stand, that after an appeal hearing this morning in Pitt County.

A new study from Stanford University has found that "synesthetes," or people whose brains associate one sensory stimulation with another (think: Viewing a picture of a bird triggers the taste of metal in the mouth), might have been influenced by playing with colorful Fisher-Price numbers and letters in childhood.

During their 2 hour discussion, many Lenoir County elementary school principals voiced their desire to have a police officer on campus, like high schools do.

An announcement from the lottery says it transferred $117.4 million. That brings the total amount earned for education and the state since the lottery started almost seven years ago to $2.69 billion.