Updated: 11:27 AM The National Hurricane Center is changing the way it talks about storm surge in hopes that emergency officials, the media and the public can better understand the dangerous phenomenon.

Updated: 5:47 AM The Emerald Isle bridge will open beginning at 7:00 a.m. Friday just in time for Memorial Day weekend.

Posted: 12:22 AM Deputies say Cuthrell admitted she made the false claim because she damaged the store owner's car with her scooter and was trying to keep their attention off of that.

Posted: 11:50 PM Prosecutors say a man will spend 13 years in prison convicted of being one of the largest collectors of child sex abuse images in the history of eastern North Carolina.

Updated: 11:47 PM Jasmine Yarbro of Beulaville is collecting supplies and money at Sandlin's Oil Company for tornado victims.

Updated: 11:47 PM We had flooding in several spots across eastern carolina Wednesday night, and it proved to be a pretty big obstacle for some drivers.

Updated: 7:01 PM Family members of missing elderly couple, one of which became subject of a Silver Alert Thursday, tell WITN they have been missing for more than a month.

Updated: 9:06 PM Scabies, a highly contagious skin condition, is spreading at a Washington County school, and parents are upset with the school district saying more should have been done to prevent the outbreak.

Updated: 8:13 PM At the request of the Pitt County Sheriff's Department, the N.C. Center for Missing Persons has cancelled the Silver Alert for Mary Gladys Waters.

Updated: 8:02 PM A Cumberland County jury has found a man guilty of kidnapping and murdering a 5-year-old Fayetteville girl almost four years ago.

Updated: 8:03 PM A former Camp Lejeune Marine has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter charges and other traffic violations for a crash that killed a woman nearly two-years ago.

Updated: 5:34 PM Farmville Police are looking for the father of a three-month old who is being treated for burns.

Updated: 8:09 PM Greenville Police are asking for people who may have information about the fire that heavily damaged Gordon's Golf & Ski store on Arlington Boulevard to come forward.

Posted: 12:53 PM Senate Republicans are handing off their vision of North Carolina's state budget to their House counterparts.

Updated: 2:06 PM Vanceboro Police have taken a mother into custody after her two-year-old child was found wandering down Main Street.

Updated: 7:58 PM Teachers and other civilian employees at Fort Bragg schools face a week or more of unpaid days off as federal budget cuts ripple through the Defense Department.

Updated: 8:03 PM A New Bern woman and two of her daughters have been indicted for what the district attorney calls "systematic theft of large sums of money" from a medical practice. The mother is suspected of stealing more than $100,000.

Updated: 7:59 PM Greenville Police say a man walked in to the Wilco-Hess at 3000 Stantonsburg Road around 1:30 Thursday morning and threatened the clerk with a knife, then took cigarettes.

Posted: 6:15 AM Directors of the "Click It or Ticket" program want people to take a self-portrait while buckled up and parked and share it on Twitter and Instagram or post it directly to the N.C. Department of Transportation's Facebook page.

Posted: 6:05 AM AAA Carolinas thinks a few more North Carolina motorists will be on the road for the Memorial Day weekend.

Updated: 11:46 PM Emergency management agencies from all over the east, and National Weather Service members discussed what we can expect this hurricane season during a conference Wednesday at ECU.

Updated: 11:43 PM The Craven County health complex that closed Monday after a thief stole copper from the building AC unit is now back open and cool again.

Updated: 10:17 PM The national council of the Boy Scouts of America is deciding whether to change the group's long-standing ban on openly gay boys.

Posted: 10:13 PM The Obama administration has acknowledged that a Raleigh man wanted on federal terrorism charges has been killed in an overseas drone strike.

Updated: 10:11 PM Law enforcement in Craven County remembered two fallen officers during a memorial service Wednesday.