The Highway Patrol has now charged the man accused in a deadly hit and run with driving while impaired while operating a commercial motor vehicle.

Drier and warmer air will move into eastern Carolina on Wednesday.

Robbie Nicholson of Greenville is charged with 13 additional misdemeanor counts of violating the public health law.

Two North Carolina Democratic political strategists who have worked for high-profile candidates were seriously wounded after being stabbed in their Raleigh home, and a suspect has been charged.

Doctors on Call returned this afternoon to offer free medical advice to the people of Eastern Carolina.

The AP said Tuesday that its Twitter account had been suspended following a hack and said it was working to correct the issue.

The accident happened just after noon on Gilead Shores Road, that's east of Chocowinity.

Investigators say a child playing with a lighter caused Tuesday afternoon's fire in which a toddler was rescued.

Aurora says a water leak prompted the boil water advisory.

Jacksonville police say around 4:00 a.m. they found Christian Tyler walking from behind the building on Commerce Road. They say he confessed to breaking into Early’s Coastal Retention Pond Services and trying to get into another nearby business.

The Fayetteville Observer reported the festival organizers have written a number of gang members to tell them to stay away from the three-day event that starts Friday.

Wayne County deputies have charged Casey Maddox of Dudley with robbery with a dangerous weapon and second degree kidnapping.

A House bill approved by the Education Committee on Tuesday would require all public, charter and regional schools to keep at least two epinephrine pens on hand to be administered by trained personnel.

A man facing five sex offense charges appeared in court Tuesday.

Greenville Police are searching for a suspect following an armed robbery at a sweepstakes business.

A four-month investigation targeting the illegal sale of prescription pills and other controlled substances in and around the Craven County area results in charges against nearly two-dozen people.

A Pitt County special education teacher has been awarded a prestigious fellowship.

Some homeowners in Beaufort County got a landscaping makeover worthy of a theme park.

Onslow County students use and throw out 19,000 Styrofoam trays every school day for their lunches, but a group of elementary school children have introduced a way to recycle those trays.

The crash happened just before 5:00 p.m. at the intersection of Arlington and Turtle Creek Road.

Troopers say the driver ran off the left side of the road, hit a driveway culvert, overturned and then caught fire. Both victims died at the scene.

Grant Hayes and his wife, Amanda, are charged with killing Laura Ackerson back in 2011 in Raleigh.

Goldsboro police have charged Lorenzo Farrow with three counts of breaking and entering, three counts of safecracking and one count of possession of burglary tools.

The college says campus officials called police this morning after a student was acting in a threatening manner and appeared to be heavily intoxicated in Petteway Hall.

The name of a Marine killed in a Monday morning traffic accident has been released.