Updated: 6:00 PM Sunny and pleasant weather conditions will continue on Friday across eastern North Carolina.

Posted: 5:24 PM The process by which landowners can block a few North Carolina towns and cities from scooping up their land can continue while municipalities and their citizens challenge new laws that overhaul the state's involuntary annexation rules.

Updated: 8:09 PM Beaufort County Animal Control says some of the dead dogs were on chains, while others were in pens on the property.

Updated: 5:24 PM East Carolina University trustees met Friday morning and okayed the proposed tuition hike.

Posted: 3:34 PM Since August 2008, GUC has cut natural gas rates 10 times. You might be surprised how much that has totaled up to.

Updated: 10:10 AM The son of a Pitt County detective is facing even more charges of stealing guns. Jason Craft is now accused of stealing guns from both of his parents.

Updated: 8:11 PM Onslow County deputies say it happened at the Circle K on Gum Branch Road outside of Jacksonville around 2:30 a.m.

Updated: 7:50 AM A woman who state troopers say was responsible for the death of a six year old flower girl on the wedding day will not spend any time in jail.

Updated: 2:18 PM Lawmen have nearly three dozen new ways to keep crime off the streets as 35 new laws take effect in our state.

Updated: 5:07 AM Bethel police say they have questioned a suspect but not made an arrest in the armed robbery Wednesday night.

Updated: 10:12 AM ECU has captured 12-straight decisions at home, matching the program record set during the 2009-10 campaign, as well as 38 of the last 47.

Posted: 9:33 PM Police are looking for two gunmen who robbed a man in the parking lot of a mall just after dark around 6:00 o'clock on Monday.

Updated: 11:47 AM Laura's Law goes into effect Thursday which imposes tougher penalties for repeat drunk drivers.

Posted: 8:52 PM The state NAACP and Greenville branch say they support Greenville sanitation workers in their demands for "dignity and respect, job security, safety, a grievance procedure and meet-and-confer."

Posted: 5:52 PM It will be dry and chilly across eastern North Carolina through Thursday.

Posted: 5:34 PM Trawick "Buzzy" Stubbs Jr. of New Bern faces felony charges for providing more than $28,000 in undisclosed flights on a private plane to the Perdue campaign.

Updated: 10:00 AM Antwann Smith, the former band director at Goldsboro High School, was arrested this morning and charged with embezzlement.

Updated: 3:43 PM A woman was trapped in her wrecked car for more than a half hour this morning in Pitt County.

Updated: 7:38 PM More injured pelicans have washed up on Onslow County beaches, months after hundreds of the protected birds showed up dead.

Updated: 10:21 AM There will soon be a new name for the largest hospital in Eastern Carolina.

Updated: 8:34 AM The historic landmark that reopened only four years ago will soon go dark again.

Updated: 7:56 AM Dennis Foy's family says he took the job at the cotton gin to make some money to buy Christmas presents.

Posted: 10:37 PM We'll see lots of sunshine across eastern North Carolina on Wednesday.

Updated: 3:43 PM It was quite a sight for fishermen off our coast last weekend when an 18-foot Great White Shark circled their boat for about 20 minutes and even bumped it.

Updated: 6:30 PM C.J. Bradshaw helped lead the Kinston Vikings to a class 2-AA Eastern Regional Title in a win at home over Reidsville. Now the senior quarterback hopes to lead his team to the school's first ever state championship.