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Fowler--who is a server at the Chanel Marker Restaurant in Morehead City says she arrived for work when she saw a boat crash into the bottom of the Atlantic Beach--Morehead City Bridge around 4:00. Fowler rushed inside the restaurant and called authorities.

BEAUFORT A longtime leader in Carteret County has resigned from his seat on the Board of Commissioners.

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Officials at a North Carolina school say their students will never again visit a living history plantation after a black tour guide picked three black students to help re-enact slave life.

The skiff belonging to a missing boater in Carteret County was found Thursday morning, but there was no sign of the operator as the search continued into the night, Coast Guard officials said.

A North Carolina pastor has been released from jail after being arrested on charges of having sex with a child.

North Carolina police are investigating why it took more than an hour to dispatch officers to the home of a real estate developer who killed his wife and two teenage children and himself last week.

Monday was a pivotal day of testimony in the Gary Lamont Hayes murder trial. Hayes took the stand and admitted that he was drunk when he pumped three slugs from a .12-gauge shotgun into Odell Foster in the early morning hours of April 26, 2008, outside the Bayside Restaurant in Havelock.

Nine officers on the police force of a North Carolina town are set to reaffirm their duty to protect and serve during a formal ceremony.

Two winning candidates who participated in a North Carolina city's new voluntary public financing program say it helped them take their focus off money and put it on issues.

Elaine Tempel, left, cochairwoman of the Carteret County Mayors' Committee for Persons with Disabilities, recently presented a beach wheelchair to Indian Beach Fire Chief Kevin White to be made available to the public.

Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 5:46 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 5:46 p.m. The N.C. Coastal Resources Commission on Thursday threw cold water on a proposal to ban alcohol from Masonboro Island and the state's nine other coastal reserve sites.

As you read this, I am vacationing on the living room sofa, flipping channels on our cableless television and wondering why I don't get up and do something useful.

An anchor from a shipwreck thought to be Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, was so unstable that divers in North Carolina retrieved it Wednesday rather than waiting until next year.Divers raised the 4.5-foot, 160-pound grapnel, or anchor, from the wreck in the Atlantic Ocean near Beaufort on Wednesday and will display it Thursday at ...

Two Wilson men pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to charges related to fraud, mail fraud, money laundering and making false statements in connection with a crop fraud scheme that involved hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The state Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a state law that forces third political parties to collect tens of thousands of signatures to get on North Carolina's ballot, but the court's split decision means the case will likely be heard again.

Celebrations continue today as Andrews town officials celebrate the town's 100th birthday.

The mayor of a western North Carolina city plans to challenge Democratic Congressman Heath Shuler's re-election effort next year.

UPDATED AT 3:41 P.M. A vehicle pulled from the waters off Beaufort Tuesday contained human remains that Carteret County authorities believe to be George Edward Quinn, who has been missing for nearly five years.

The 150th anniversary of a central North Carolina town is being commemorated with a special stamp.