A once-troubled Cumberland County police department is investigating violent crimes for the first time since 2007, and the chief says he's happy with their progress.

Scam artists sometimes exploit kindness and loyalty, which appears to be the case with a scam that recently in a hit restaurant in Cary.

ONWASA in Onslow County says some people off Old 30 Road in the Piney Green area will lose water pressure from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Reports say Hannah Smith of Swansboro was killed when the car she was in crashed on Friday night.

The expansion in public prekindergarten programs has slowed and even been reversed in some states as school districts cope with shrinking budgets.

A Greenville Grandmother was killed in a crash Monday night in Pitt County, but her 13-year-old granddaughter survived.

Onslow County Deputies are looking for a robbery suspect after a robbery was reported about 9:15 p.m. Monday at the Dollar General Store on Sandridge Road in Hubert.

Martin Luther King Jr. died in Memphis supporting public workers in that city. Monday, during a march through the city and a rally at the courthouse. Members of the Coalition Against Racism spoke out for Greenville's sanitation workers.

A building in Pitt County is nothing but charred wood and ashes after a fire Monday.

Much warmer air will arrive in eastern North Carolina on Tuesday.

Officials had to evacuate the Walmart in New Bern because of an electrical fire Monday morning.

A state legislator from the east is now under federal investigation.

A man is recovering from hypothermia this morning after the Coast Guard says they rescued him from his sinking sailboat.

Lawmen say the Trade Mart in the Martin County town of Robersonville was held up at gunpoint Sunday. It was the second armed robbery in the county over the weekend.

Former PCC Bulldog Tanner Lovick was suspended indefinitely from the University of South Carolina baseball team after being arrested early Sunday morning in Columbia, South Carolina for drunkenness.

More than a week after two men were found dead inside a burned-out Morehead City shed and authorities have identified them.

Martin Luther King Junior Day is Monday. We found some events to celebrate the civil rights leader in eastern carolina.

A local beauty queen made it to the top 15 in the Miss America pageant Saturday night.

Six teenagers face murder charges now after police say they beat a man to death for a beer.

A group in the East has made it their mission to help chemotherapy patients one hat at a time.

The Tulsa Golden Hurricane held off a late rally by East Carolina on its way to a 70-67 Conference USA victory Saturday afternoon inside Minges Coliseum.

Authorities say the Bojangles in Williamston at 401 East Boulevard was robbed Friday night.

The owners of the 427 Convenience Store says he's been robbed before and wishes something more could be done to stop them.

WITN News has learned that Greenville Police Chief William Anderson is leaving after almost six years on the job.

Todd Gurley, former WITN Player of the Week, has committed to play college football at the University of Georgia.