The Senate sided with traditional retailers and financially strapped state and local governments Monday by passing a bill that would widely subject online shopping - for many a largely tax-free frontier - to state sales taxes.

Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more.

Law enforcement officers biking up the east coast to honor fallen officers made a pit stops in the east Monday and Tuesday..

A humid but mild air mass will produce scattered showers through Tuesday across the area.

The brother of a New York native killed in Afghanistan says his sibling and another Marine were slain by an Afghan soldier they were training.

Pitt County District Attorney Kimberly Robb says Kendrick Fitchett and Demetrius Crumble pleaded guilty as charged to felony cruelty to animals this morning.

John Giltz pleaded guilty to second degree murder this morning in Onslow County Superior Court.

The shooting happened back on April 27th in the parking lot of Sheraton Village Apartments on Landmark Street in Greenville around 1:00 a.m.

Deputies say a man who was arrested nearly two months ago for an armed robbery returned to the scene of the crime only to be arrested once again.

A new U.S. Census report finds that Greenville is No. 2 in the country for its percentage of recent unmarried mothers.

A week of detouring around roadwork starts for some Lenoir County drivers Monday.

A forum about fish has some people headed from the coast to the capitol today.

The Greenville Police Department listed six goals for the next three years, including reducing crime in the city.

A Cambridge city official says it would not be in the interest of "peace within the city" to execute a cemetery deed for a plot at Cambridge Cemetery for the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

The spotty rain showers will increase on Monday, with high temperatures staying well below normal.

A man in the east is locked up, accused of sex crimes involving a child.

The driver of a limousine that burst into flames on a San Francisco Bay area bridge, killing five women, says he at first misunderstood what one of the passengers in the back was saying when she complained about smelling smoke.

A Halifax County woman is in stable condition after Sheriff’s officials say that a woman was assaulted by her ex-boyfriend with a baseball bat.

Another North Carolina county is being warned about a possible lawsuit because county commissioners frequently open public meetings with Christian prayers.

North Carolina's shortage of options to treat the mentally ill means county jails hold thousands of sick inmates, costing taxpayers big bucks as they wait for weeks or months to be evaluated or treated.

Deputies say they have arrested three men and are searching for two more after a man was shot in the head outside a convenience store.

Lou Cacal of Newport was charged this morning by the Highway Patrol with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle and failure to yield right of way.

Undercover operations by police in one city in the east lead to two weapons charges

Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles believed to be on their way to Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, officials and activists said.

National Rifle Association leaders told members Saturday that the fight against gun control legislation is far from over, with battles yet to come in Congress and next year's midterm elections, but they vowed that none in the organization will ever have to surrender their weapons.