It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.

Close to 100 people gathered outside the Pitt County Courthouse in Greenville Wednesday to pay respects to the eleven law enforcement members from the county who died in the line of duty over the years.

The FBI says a 37-year-old man has been arrested following last week's discovery in Washington state of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.

It will remain warm and humid with some scattered storms across the area on Thursday.

It's not a common find for law enforcement in the east, but Lenoir County deputies confiscated 19 poppy plants from Kristofer Tyson's home Wednesday.

The U.S. Army has officially declared a Fort Bragg soldier dead, more than a year after she was last seen leaving a bar near the base.

In a brutal daylight attack which raised fears that terrorism had returned to London, two men with butcher knives hacked another man to death near a military barracks Wednesday before police wounded them in a shootout.

Federal regulators are launching a special inspection of a nuclear power plant outside North Carolina's capital city that was forced to shut down last week.

The IRS official at the center of the storm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups has told Congress she did nothing wrong and has invoked her constitutional right to not answer lawmakers' questions.

Anthony Weiner officially announced he's in the New York mayoral race.

Deputies say the shooting happened around 2:10 a.m. on Rocky Run Road, that's just outside of Jacksonville.

The cleanup continues at a Havelock carpet store that a car crashed into, and the woman police say was behind the wheel is due in court to face her DWI charge.

The FBI says a man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation.

Nancy LaBarge from Northside High School in Beaufort County is the WITN Teacher of the Week for May 22, 2013.

We're working to get information on an apparent set of brothers, accused of break-ins in the east.

Police are searching for two men who they say tried to rob the Sheetz near ECU’s campus overnight.

This school year is beginning to wind down and Pitt County, like others, is looking ahead to next year appointing 4 new principals.

Seven people are charged with a list of drug charges after a 15 month undercover drug operation by Ayden Police and the Pitt County Sheriff's Office. All of the suspects are from Ayden.

A woman from Oklahoma now living in Bertie County says she is focused on family back home following the tornadoes.

Warm and humid conditions will linger through Wednesday across the area.

N.C. Transportation Secretary Tony Tata visited New Bern Tuesday to talk about the new plans for roads and highways proposed last month by Governor Pat McCrory. He says he thinks the eastern part of the state has been underserved in the past, but this plan aims to change that.

Greene County Middle School was wiped out by a tornado a couple years ago. Repairs are nearly complete, and students and staff are excited to finally be back in their school this fall.

A man we spoke to in Bertie County who lived through the largest tornado outbreak in state history in 2011is watching the devastation in Oklahoma with empathy for those who died and those left to rebuild.

The two suspects are behind bars after a standoff with Greenville police following an armed robbery in Chocowinity Tuesday.

Troopers said bald tires and slick roads are likely to blame for a wreck that sent a 9-month-old baby and his mother to the hospital Tuesday afternoon.