Pitt County News

Moderate drought conditions will continue for Lenoir County and surrounding areas this weekend as farmers attempt to cope with their crop losses caused by the weather's dry conditions.

Greenville Police detectives arrested a man last night in connection with a shooting earlier in the day in a west Greenville neighborhood, a department spokesman said this morning.

Greenville police arrested a man Wednesday in the April 22 robbery of an elderly woman at the Colonial Mall, a department spokesman said.

Authorities hope the deaths of 2nd Lt. Holley Wimunc and LCpl. Maria Lauterbach shed light on the issue of domestic violence.

A Mexican national visiting his brothers in Pitt County was run over and killed while lying on a dark and foggy Pitt County highway early Saturday morning, a State Highway Patrol Trooper said.

A Kinston man has been accused of raping a Pitt County woman early Saturday and was taken into custody that same day, according to a report from the Pitt County Sheriff's Office.

Investigators with the Craven County Sheriff's Department are yet to speak with two victims of stabbing wounds from an altercation Saturday night near Vanceboro.

Hey, read the rules! A sex offender who moved to Pitt County and didn't register is in trouble with the law.

The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office tells Nine On Your Side they've charged 30 year old Deforest Coffey of Greenville with Failure to Register by Sex Offender.

Two cousins were charged with murder in the June 29 death of a Greenville woman who was a bystander when gunfire erupted on Vance Street.

Authorities have charged a Maysville man they say left behind his severely injured children after a crash and then tried to carjack a vehicle from a couple who stopped to help.

Hey, read the rules! Seven people were injured in an early morning shooting in Kinston Sunday.

The man police accuse of firing a gun at an interracial couple in Greenville, will go on trial.

The Pitt County District Attorney's Office tells Nine On Your Side the man accused of firing a gun at an interracial couple will face trial.

There were nine people enjoying a lazy Sunday in an Oakmont Drive townhouse when the kitchen burst into flames.

We're getting more information, about how a 13-year-old boy died over the weekend.

Greenville Police officers arrested a man today in connection with a rape and robbery on June 21.

A woman died from a gunshot wound early this morning after a fight at a home on Vance Street, the Greenville Police Department reported.

A man was arrested in connection with a June 23 early morning shooting outside a private club that left a woman inside grazed by a stray bullet, a Pitt County Sheriff's investigator said.

Hey, read the rules! The Duplin County district attorney this afternoon filed two murder charges in the death of twins killed when their pregnant mother was shot.