An officer with Vidant Company Police was injured after his gun accidentally discharged during a Tuesday training session outside Bethel.

The incident happened shortly after 11 a.m. at the Pitt Community Firearms Training Center, 2833 Ellen Farm Road, which is operated by Pitt Community College. It…

One pilot is dead and a second pilot is hospitalized following two separate plane crashes in North Carolina.

The Record & Landmark reports that Statesville Regional Airport Manager John Ferguson said that a plane based in Statesville crashed in Rowan County on Monday.

Statesville police said…

Americans are becoming increasingly sedentary, spending almost a third of their waking hours sitting down, and computer use is partly to blame, a new study found.

Over almost a decade, average daily sitting time increased by roughly an hour, to about eight hours for U.S. teens and almost 6 1/2…

East Carolina went from on the bubble to officially in the NCAA women’s golf tournament on Wednesday, when the entire four-regional bracket was announced.

The Pirates will be the No. 14 seed at the Auburn (Ala.) Regional, beginning May 6, that is led by Duke as the No. 1 seed and American…

Facing the final five-game week of its regular season, East Carolina’s baseball team had to battle to knock off rival UNC Wilmington on Tuesday night at Clark-LeClair Stadium.

ECU’s 8-5 victory required much more late-inning drama than in the Pirates’ routine 9-1 win over the…

D.H. Conley took care of perennial powerhouse Whiteville Tuesday afternoon, 9-4, at Guy Smith Stadium on the final day of the Pitt County Classic baseball tournament.

“I have to give thanks to Ryan (Meadows), Corey (Skinner), (Ronald Vincent) and Pat (McRae),” DHC head coach Jason Mills…

George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School hired Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh to co-teach a course this summer called Creation of the Constitution. The course will be held 3,668 miles away, in Runnymede, England, where the Magna Carta was sealed 800 years ago.

Some…

As the flames rushed through Notre Dame Cathedral's wooden rafters — each beam cut from an individual oak — a squad of firefighters began a strategic mission.

Their leader was Father Jean-Marc Fournier, chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade. The goal was to save a crown of thorns that…

DEAR HARRIETTE: My brother and I live together in a two-apartment house. I like our arrangement. Even though we are both adults, we are young, and it feels safer having him around. He has a dog — a puppy, really — that he got about a year ago. Because my brother is still in school and…

With warmer days on the way, chilled soups are a bright and refreshing alternative to a steaming bowl of soup. And while cool soups are certainly a solution to the heat of summer, they are also delicious year-round.

In fact, the slightly chilled temperature often amplifies the flavor and…

It is no secret that head and neck cancers, like any type of cancer, can be best treated with early detection.

But early detection can be tough to achieve due to lack of transportation, finances or other resources.

Now, local health care partnerships are making early detection and education key…

Q: My daughter was recently diagnosed with PCOS. She is of normal weight, so we were surprised. Does what she eats make a difference? — MEM, Winterville

A: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a condition caused by hormone imbalances in a woman’s body and although it is often associated…

DEAR HARRIETTE: My brother and I live together in a two-apartment house. I like our arrangement. Even though we are both adults, we are young, and it feels safer having him around. He has a dog — a puppy, really — that he got about a year ago. Because my brother is still in school and…

During my middle school years, my parents always used to invite my mother’s eccentric Uncle Bill to our house for Sunday dinner on Easter and other holidays. I don’t remember much of anything about Uncle Bill — except that he somehow managed to find ways to embarrass me in front…

The refrigerator beeps if I accidentally leave the door open, which I do a lot, but it's a different beep than the one the dishwasher makes to tell me it has finished putting spots on my glasses.

Do I really have to know when the dishwasher is finished with its spotting cycle? Besides, when the…