Updated: 7:06 PM NBC News anchor and reporter Lester Holt reported Friday night on NBC Nightly News about a Coast Guard air search and rescue team in Elizabeth City, NC.

Updated: 8:53 AM Dry air and seasonably warm temperatures will dominate eastern Carolina over the weekend.

Updated: 6:22 PM So far more than $6,000 has been charged on the credit card which was stolen in New York.

Updated: 6:21 PM Trevor Thomas lost his eyesight in 2005 and has since learned to function as a blind person, using a cane and relying on his dog to help him get around.

Posted: 2:07 PM More than 60 suspect drug dealers are behind bars after a multi-agency drug bust in Martin and Washington Counties.

Updated: 10:26 PM Emily Efird was a teacher at James Kenan High School in Duplin County.

Updated: 7:48 PM A corrections officer who worked at a state prison in Bertie County has been in and out of jail on charges of his own.

Updated: 6:17 PM Police said a call of shots fired just before 1 a.m. on Friday turned into a murder investigation.

Updated: 11:11 PM WITN viewers have shared many pictures with us of damage from Thursday night's storm. Check out the slideshow for a sample.

Updated: 10:02 AM Thousands of people were still without power Friday after Thursday evening's thunderstorms downed trees and power lines.

Updated: 6:17 PM Police say the teenager had only been in the U.S. for three weeks.

Updated: 8:13 PM Troopers and deputies stopped a speeding Camaro on Highway 17 north Wednesday morning.

Updated: 8:14 PM Johnathan Frazier of Bath is charged with a felony count of making a false bomb report.

Updated: 8:14 PM Jacksonville police this morning released an artist's sketch of a man wanted in a May 10th rape that happened in the northern end of the city.

Posted: 8:47 AM An official says an inspector who surveyed a Philadelphia building before it collapsed last week, killing six people, has committed suicide.

Posted: 6:51 AM Troops stationed overseas will be able to watch the graduation ceremony at Lejeune High School, located at the Marine Corps base.

Posted: 6:47 AM Gov. Pat McCrory has cleared his desk of dozens of bills sent to him by the North Carolina General Assembly.

Updated: 9:19 AM One sheriff's office says an inmate hit a jailer so hard, that jailer had to get stitches in his face.

Updated: 8:27 AM In 18 months, a Jacksonville teenager went from a hospital bed to his high school graduation and he does not plan to stop there.

Posted: 12:21 AM President Barack Obama's administration can go forward with its new plan to make the morning-after pill available to buyers of any age without prescriptions.

Updated: 1:32 AM A bill designed to clear the way for executions to resume in North Carolina is headed to Gov. Pat McCrory's desk after receiving final legislative approval.

Updated: 9:29 PM A wildfire fueled by hot temperatures, gusty winds and thick, bone-dry forests has destroyed 92 homes, damaged five more and prompted more than 7,000 residents northeast of Colorado Springs to flee, sheriff's official said Wednesday.

Updated: 12:11 PM Tyrrell County Sheriff Darryl Liverman says their 911 center began getting calls around 4:00 p.m. Saturday about the sighting near the Washington County line.

Updated: 8:13 PM Greenville police arrested Donald Robinson on Tuesday.

Updated: 8:11 PM Mayor Lee Bettis returned to his mayoral duties Tuesday at a meeting of the New Bern Board of Aldermen.