The Department of Agriculture is proposing changes to crackdown on food stamp fraud.

The Department of Agriculture proposing new rules to crackdown on food stamp fraud.

The Times-Picayune, one of the nation's oldest newspapers, is dropping its daily circulation after 175 years and plans to issue three printed editions a week starting in the fall.

A new detergent product is getting in the wrong hands and posing a severe threat to the lives of children.

At less than $90 a barrel, the price of oil is the lowest it has been all year, but it doesn't mean lower gas prices for Memorial Day weekend.

A New Bern police officer appeared before a district court judge Thursday morning after being arrested Wednesday.

The wind farm has been proposed near the Pocosin Lakes Wildlife Refuge.

A Jones County couple has been found guilty of more than three dozen animal cruelty charges after a trial.

It's called southern R/C and it's looking for new recruits to make a mark on the racing circuit.

A 3-year old takes a dangerous spin on his motorbike, tornadoes won't ruin one couple's big day, and amazing animal pictures you have to see to believe. The video that will have you talking in Take A Look At this!

He already has a Super Bowl ring, and now football star Donald Driver can add the "Dancing With the Stars" mirrorball trophy to his awards collection.

A North Carolina church pastor’s call for gays and lesbians to be fenced in so they can eventually die off has triggered outrage among gay-rights and anti-hate groups, with one local citizens organization planning a protest in response.

Two brothers were killed as they were robbing a Gates County store, that's according to Sheriff Edward Webb.

Take A Look At This! A teenager survives a drop off a waterfall, a puppy napping caught on camera, and a new age in space flight.

The North Carolina Seafood Festival is less than five months away and Tuesday the official poster for the event was unveiled.

A lot of people will be heading out on the water this holiday weekend and the Coast Guard auxiliary has started boating safety week.

The annual Click It or Ticket campaign is getting underway for the Memorial Day weekend and this year there's a twist.

It's a relief to hear tropical storm Alberto is headed out to sea just 8 months after Hurricane Irene devastated parts of the east. People are still rebuilding their homes and businesses from that storm.

A North Carolina high school teacher has been suspended following the release of a YouTube video in which she is heard yelling at a student in class and telling him it's wrong to criticize President Barack Obama.

The number of female gun owners in the east is rising. I checked out Ladies Day this month at a local shooting range to ask women why they wanted to be part of the growing group of chicks with guns.

Perdue issued the order late Monday before the Legislature soon begins to debate its own proposed pathway to allow certain forms of shale gas exploration, including hydraulic fracturing -- also known as fracking.

The O'Charley's Restaurant on Greenville Boulevard notified employees this morning that it is now closed.

Lawmakers are looking at potentially changing the law on the school calendar again.

A prominent retired psychiatrist is apologizing to the gay community for a decade-old study that concluded some gay people can go straight through what's called reparative therapy.

The U.S. government's hurricane forecasting hub in Miami has chosen The Weather Channel's tropical weather expert to be its next chief.