Pitt County schools let students out three hours early Friday. It's the first time in years they say they've had early dismissal due to the threat of snow.
Deputies say a high school teacher was arrested for trying to break in to his co-worker's home. However, the teacher who owned that home had not lived there for nearly seven years.
They've been blamed for a lot of the issues in the University neighborhood, but starting next month, East Carolina University students be hitting the streets to clean the place up.
The Onslow County School Board says they need space for thousands of new students over the next five-years and that means expansions to existing schools, and some brand new ones.
Longer winter breaks and shorter summer vacations are ideas being tested around the country as school districts debate whether to extend the school year.
A rural school district in Ohio is drawing attention with its plans to arm a handful of its non-teaching employees with handguns this year — perhaps even janitors.
After the devastating shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, some local school districts are discussing school security at the elementary level.
The number of North Carolina children being paddled at school is falling fast as the handful of districts that continue to use physical pain as discipline decline.
Residents and officials are planning to begin debating what to do with Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the site of the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, in which 20 first graders and six school staff members died.
