A Pennsylvania beauty queen who resigned after alleging that the Miss USA pageant had been fixed says she is stunned by an arbitrator's ruling that she must pay the pageant organization $5 million for defamation.
WITN'S Lindsey Fry spoke to the Stephenson family in Greenville with two adopted girls from Russia. They say Russia's ban on adoption to Americans is devastating news.
We found a few traditional events around eastern North Carolina. Please leave a comment about any fireworks events or events free to the public to ring in 2013.
An Arizona sheriff has announced plans to deploy an armed volunteer posse to protect Phoenix-area students in the wake of the mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.
A new approach to informing the public about what law enforcement officers do on the job is taking hold at police departments across the United States and Canada.
District of Columbia police say they are investigating an incident in which NBC News reporter David Gregory displayed what he described as a high-capacity ammunition magazine on "Meet the Press."
Ben Affleck is taking his name off the list of possible candidates for U.S. Sen. John Kerry's seat, which would be open if the Democratic senator from Massachusetts is confirmed as secretary of state.
We spoke to local veterans Friday for their reaction on a marine lieutenant general reducing the punishment for a marine who pleaded guilty for urinating on dead bodies of Taliban fighters. One veteran says the marines deserve no punishment.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency order Friday putting the law on hold until it can hear full arguments on the issue. The law was set to take effect Jan. 1.
North Carolina's video sweepstakes halls could be closed soon after the state's highest court refused a request from industry officials to delay those closings while they appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Thursday, hundreds of Swansboro High students walked to the bleachers on the football field wearing green and white- the school colors of Sandy Hook Elementary and read the names of those killed Friday.
Two high school students are charged in connection to a bomb threat at Southside High School in Chocowinity last week, the day before the elementary school massacre in Connecticut.
A months-long investigation of academic fraud at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill finds the problems go back a decade earlier than an earlier probe uncovered.
The U.S. Justice Department has filed a civil rights complaint against a North Carolina sheriff over what it says is his systematic racial profiling of Latinos.
Belmont Abbey in Gaston County says it's happy with a ruling by a federal appeals court on its challenge of rules that could require the school to provide free contraceptives to employees.
"It's my belief that the gunmen are choosing a school that there are no guns, no weapons there to defend the children," said Rep. Phillip Lowe (R-SC) of Florence Wednesday.