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The Pitt County Sheriff's Office said Saturday they have arrested a mother and son on drug and gun charges in Grimesland.
It's the only soup kitchen in Pitt County, and just a couple of years ago it was on the verge of closing. But in came a character from Boston who has transformed the place, and today the Joy Soup Kitchen feeds about a hundred people in need every day at lunch.
Two Pitt County Sheriff's Office deputies were placed on paid leave following a Thursday night shooting in which a man was killed, authorities said.
Advocates in eastern North Carolina say a lack of access to child care could slow down the entire state's rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Keenan Willard, WRAL Eastern North Carolina reporter
Pitt County is one of two communities in the country that are part of a national study on ramping up at-home testing for COVID-19.
A white North Carolina woman was charged with driving her car into a yard where three Black teenagers were playing basketball. One was taken to the hospital.
One person was hurt Monday afternoon when a small plane crashed in Pitt County, according to NBC affiliate WITN.
A couple faces child abuse charges after Pitt County authorities found their 5-month-old child had sustained serious injuries and was severely malnourished, authorities said Thursday.
Graduates of an old school near Greenville were supposed to hold a reunion last spring, when the Tar Heel Traveler team captured them eating, planning and telling funny stories. The reunion was rescheduled for this weekend, but now it's been delayed until next spring.
Grocery store cashier and recent nursing school graduate Maia White springs into action, performing CPR when a customer suffers a life-threatening emergency.
Vidant Health says that an investigation is underway after a patient fell from a window at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
WITN.com
Vidant Medical Center in Greenville is investigating after officials said a patient fell out of a window Friday morning. (WITN contributed to this story)
An East Carolina University student was killed and a N.C. State Highway Patrol trooper was injured in a crash that happened in Pitt County.
All court cases that were supposed to be heard Wednesday will be rescheduled.
A man is accused of crawling through a window and breaking into a woman's home while she was sleeping in Pitt County, officials said.
Michael Crandell, 44, is charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, assault by strangulation and assault on a female, according to the Pitt County Sheriff's Office.
Three years ago, Ivan Koloff passed away. He was known in the professional wrestling world as "The Russian Bear" who really wasn't from Russia, as Scott Mason explains.
A Greenville man embezzled more than $100,000 from a church where he worked and even sold the church building and grounds without authorization, authorities said Friday.
The principal of North Pitt High School was charged Wednesday with assaulting a student, authorities said.
Matthew Wright opened Lanoca Coffee, a one-man coffee roasting operation in about 1,100 square feet of space, on Second Street. Pitt County is a place where you may not expect to find small-batch, artisan coffee.
These days it seems there is a new brewery opening every week on every corner, but a man in the small town of Ayden has other ideas. He hopes to bring people back to a simpler time, when a cup of black coffee and a porch swing were all you needed on a Saturday night.
Two people, including a woman known as the "Pink Lady Bandit," are in custody in connection with several bank robberies along the East Coast, including two in North Carolina, authorities said.
A Silver Alert was issued Thursday night for a missing 19-year-old woman.
Jason O. Boyd, WRAL.com digital reporter
The FBI says the woman who robbed an Ayden bank on Wednesday has help-up a total of three banks since Saturday.
