Updated: 7:56 PM 37-year-old Maurice Baum and 35-year-old Desmond White pleaded guilty to crack cocaine charges. Baum also pleaded to charges involving the possession and distribution of powder cocaine.

Updated: 7:56 PM The crash happened around 7:00 a.m. on Highway 55 near the ABC store in Pamlico County.

Updated: 7:55 PM Alfred Tyson has plead guilty to various charges in the murder case of a man shot on Christmas Eve, but not discovered for days.

Posted: 9:49 AM The nation's military leaders are insisting that commanders keep their authority to handle sexual assault cases.

Posted: 7:43 AM Issues of race while drawing North Carolina's current legislative and congressional districts will be front and center in a brief trial involving pending redistricting litigation.

Posted: 5:57 AM A man accused of trafficking drugs is in jail under a $1.75 million dollar bond.

Updated: 7:57 PM Jailers said a man from Pinetops will go before a judge Tuesday on multiple sex offense charges.

Posted: 3:31 AM Oscar Pistorius has appeared in a South African court for a hearing ahead of the murder trial of the double-amputee Olympian, who killed his girlfriend on Valentine's Day.

Updated: 11:49 PM Some major budget cuts are on the way for one county in the east and with 4 weeks until the budget is due, more could still be made.

Updated: 7:50 AM One of two men convicted in the 2008 death of UNC Chapel Hill president Eve Carson was re-sentenced, Monday, to life in prison without the chance for parole.

Updated: 7:58 PM As the search continues for a new Pitt County School's Superintendent, an interim has been named to lead the largest school district in the east.

Updated: 8:42 AM Tropical Storm Andrea has been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone and is moving away from eastern Carolina.

Updated: 5:54 PM Three men from the east are accused of stealing copper wire from a business and then selling it to a recycling center.

Updated: 6:12 PM Stephen LaRoque has been on trial in Greenville for nearly three weeks. The jury this morning found him guilty on all counts after deliberations that spanned three days.

Updated: 7:58 PM Ruffin MeNeill's five year contract with East Carolina was set to run out at the end of the 2014 season. It's now been extended to June 30, 2018.

Posted: 1:47 PM A military judge is allowing the Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage to represent himself at his upcoming murder trial.

Posted: 1:27 PM "Powerhouse" fire burning out of control 50 miles north of Los Angeles.

Posted: 1:11 PM Hospital patient steals ambulance with two EMTs inside, slams into home.

Updated: 10:47 AM Investigators said alcohol was a factor in a weekend wreck that killed a 29-year-old man.

Updated: 8:36 PM Deputies said a neighborhood watch group is taking drug crime seriously, and their observance is part of the reason why an active meth lab was busted over the weekend.

Posted: 7:15 AM The head of the Halifax County NAACP is criticizing an agreement that allowed a former Scotland Neck police officer to plead guilty to a misdemeanor in the death of a man who died after being shot with a stun gun.

Updated: 7:53 PM Lenoir County deputies said an investigation counties away lead them to a Kinston firefighter's home where they found evidence of that man sharing child pornography.

Updated: 2:17 PM A large area of moderate to heavy rain is over Eastern North Carolina this afternoon. Some flooding is possible.

Updated: 11:41 PM A sheriff's office says that man in the east was taken to the hospital after his gas grill exploded.

Posted: 8:12 PM Three veteran storm chasers were among the 10 people killed when a violent tornado barreled into the Oklahoma City metro area.