A Johnston County woman who sent police on a global manhunt after she lied about her son vanishing at a flea market in Smithfield could spend up to five years in prison.

Durham police are searching for a man in connection with a hit-and-run crash early Saturday morning.

Town officials say they plan to go to court to try to close a state-regulated group home where a resident was stabbed Saturday.

The parents who slept while a pit bull gnawed off their baby's toes have been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to child abuse charges.

A Robeson County chicken plant was fined $27,410 for a release of ammonia gas in June that killed one worker and injured three.

This week's arrest of a man charged with stabbing his pregnant wife to death in 2005 has reignited an issue that one state legislator hopes will pick up new momentum.

Superior Court Judge Ripley Rand said he will review e-mail and internal state Department of Correction communication to determine whether prison officials were truthful during hearings before him in December.

Law enforcement officials charged a Clayton man this week with a home invasion and robbery in Martin County. He is accused of kidnapping two people, beating a man with a baseball bat and stealing a Mercedes-Benz, court records show.

ow truck operator Ed McKnight readies a Service Experts truck that was stolen and crashed during a chase on Interstate 40 near the Jones Sausage Road exit. Company supervisor Rob Eichas said an employee who lives on Pender Street in downtown Raleigh was warming up the truck and went inside his house.

In September, the N.C. Innocence Inquiry Commission voted to send Greg Taylor's case to a panel of judges for further review. Those judges will convene Tuesday and could vote to send Taylor home after 17 years in prison.

A North Carolina teacher has been arrested after police say he engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old student.

From the Editor:  Remarkably, in a state with unemployment at a 34-year high, North Carolina has more vacant probation officer jobs than it did about a year ago.

Triangle Politics:  One of the complaints about the Clarence E. Lightner Public Safety Center, a proposed $205 million project to combine Raleigh's emergency responders in one 17-story building, is that folks just didn't know it was coming.

An Athens Drive High School student was seriously injured Friday morning when she was hit by a vehicle in a crosswalk near the school.

The North Carolina parents who slept while a pit bull gnawed off their baby's toes have been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to child abuse charges.

Defense attorneys representing the two men accused of murdering UNC-Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson will not have access to all Crime Stoppers tips in the case, an Orange County judge ruled Thursday.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board on Thursday voted to urge changes to national fire codes to prevent more explosions like the blast that killed four workers at Con Agra's Slim Jim plant in Garner.