Unless you're heading to the weekend races at Charlotte Motor Speedway, motorists in the state can hit the road without too many headaches for the Memorial Day weekend.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Law enforcement in Craven County remembered two fallen officers during a memorial service Wednesday.

The U.S. Navy Surgeon General and Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Vice Admiral Matt Nathan, got a firsthand look at the revamped Naval Hospital at Camp Lejeune.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.