Posted: 6:58 PM With the death of Whitney Houston just hours earlier, it's hard to focus on the matter of crowning the best in music -- but Sunday night's Grammys will try.

Updated: 7:57 PM Lottery officials say someone who played the Powerball in Rhode Island has won the $336.4 million jackpot.

Updated: 9:36 AM It was an emotional night for soul singer Bobby Brown as he performed Saturday night before thousands just hours after learning that his ex-wife Whitney Houston had died in Beverly Hills.

Updated: 8:52 PM A coroner's official says Whitney Houston was found in a hotel bathtub, but it'll take weeks to determine precisely how she died.

Updated: 8:20 PM Thousands of people are pouring into Washington this weekend for the East Carolina Wildlife Arts Festival, the North Carolina Decoy Championships and the Dock Dogs competition.

Posted: 6:16 AM Powerball's $250 million jackpot went begging last night, as no one matched all six numbers correctly to claim the top prize.

Posted: 4:30 PM The Nielsen Company says 111.3 million people watched the New York Giants defeat the New England Patriots, 21-17.

Posted: 4:30 PM Country singer Randy Travis has apologized after being arrested on a charge of public intoxication outside a North Texas church.

Posted: 9:37 PM Madonna positioned herself as the queen of a new generation of pop stars at the Super Bowl halftime show -- complete with throne -- but didn't have complete control of Sunday night's show.

Updated: 11:41 PM The Carolina Chocolate Festival is underway this weekend on the Crystal Coast.

Updated: 4:45 AM Roseanne Barr is running for the Green Party's presidential nomination, and she says it's no joke.

Updated: 6:44 PM Are you ready for the big game? Click full story to see the coverage lineup on WITN.

Updated: 11:02 AM Don Cornelius, creator of the long-running TV dance show "Soul Train," shot himself to death Wednesday morning at his Los Angeles home, police said. He was 75.

Posted: 12:20 PM A second singer from the east has made it to Hollywood for American Idol.

Posted: 3:14 AM The Deep South drama "The Help" won three prizes at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, including best actress for Viola Davis and supporting actress for Octavia Spencer.

Posted: 6:49 PM Rev. Al Sharpton says Etta James should be remembered as a woman and an artist who "turned her pain into power."

Updated: 11:29 AM A documentary film about a Camp Lejeune Marine who returns from Afghanistan wounded and struggling to rebuild his life is among the nominees for an Academy Award.

Updated: 5:43 PM According to online articles, Scotty McCreery applied to East Carolina University in Greenville and was accepted.

Posted: 1:39 PM Martin Scorsese's Paris adventure "Hugo" leads the Academy Awards with 11 nominations, among them best picture and the latest director honor for the Oscar-winning filmmaker.

Updated: 7:54 AM The seemingly perfect marriage of singer-songwriter Seal and supermodel Heidi Klum is heading to an unexpected end.

Posted: 2:43 PM Etta James' manager says the singer has died in Southern California at age 73.

Updated: 9:44 PM A star may have been born from here in the east after her performance on American Idol

Updated: 1:52 PM Betty White kicked off her 90th birthday celebration with the world watching - or, at least, the 14 million who tuned in to NBC on Monday at 8 p.m.. Even President Obama sent in a video message - asking White to prove she's 90 by providing a long-form birth certificate.

Updated: 3:21 PM The Outer Banks History Center is seeking letters, diaries, photographs and artifacts of from the Civil War for an exhibit that's part of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the war.

Updated: 8:39 AM A young North Carolina woman who's featured on the hit MTV reality show "Teen Mom 2" has been arrested for the third time in a year.