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EDGECOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - The Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office says a Rocky Mount man is charged with several counts of animal cruelty and more arrests are expected. On October 1, the Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office Detective Division and Animal Services Division received information about an animal cruelty case involving multiple suspects.

PITT COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - One eastern Carolina community is grieving the loss of a 5-year-old who was accidentally shot and killed Tuesday night. Family and friends held each other tight Wednesday morning after an accidental shooting turned tragic. The Pitt County Sheriff’s Office says a 5-year-old was shot in...

ENFIELD, N.C. (WITN) - Charges are expected after police say three under-age children wearing ski masks got on an Eastern Carolina school bus yesterday. Enfield police say it happened just before 4:00 p.m. in the area of South McDaniel Street and East Alsop Street. The three were wearing hooded sweatshirts...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - The Pitt County Sheriff’s Office says a man wanted for communicating a threat of mass violence against the Pitt County Office Building Complex in Greenville has been arrested. Charles Barrett, 44 years old, is in the Pitt County Detention Center under no bond. The sheriff’s...

A man accused of killing two people in a 2022 shooting at an Ayden convenience store has died, his attorney told a Pitt County judge during a hearing last week. Walter Wilkie, the defense counsel for Akyree Collins-Smith, 26, of Greenville, said that he received word of his client’s death on Sept. 18. The news came during a murder status hearing at the Pitt County Detention Center presided over by Pitt County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Foster on Thursday. ...

Two local men, both of whom have prior records, were arrested on first-degree murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a man in Rocky Mount last month, authorities said. Jessie Johnson Jr., 46, and Harold Phillips, 45, are accused of killing Mack Jenkins, according to N.C. District Court records. A third suspect in the case, Alicia Petaway, 35, is charged with felony accessory after the fact. Authorities allege...

GREENVILLE, Pitt County — On Monday, October 7th, 2024, around 9:30 p.m., police were called to H&K Mart at 1000 W 5th St due to a ShotSpotter alert. When they arrived, they found 32-year-old Kentraye Barnes with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his arm. Initial investigations and nearby camera...

Vice President Kamala Harris returns to North Carolina this weekend, although she’s monitoring potential effects from Hurricane Milton.

A perplexing aerial phenomenon has left residents of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and viewers of CBS17 news scratching their heads. During a recent morning broadcast, the CBS17 camera stationed at Nash Community College in Rocky Mount captured a fleeting image that has sparked widespread curiosity. A streak of light, resembling a shooting star, was seen darting across the sky. However, when the footage was slowed down, observers noticed that the object appeared to be more substantial.

PINETOPS, N.C. (WNCT) — After the football game between Southwest Edgecombe and North Pitt was postponed from Friday, the two teams met Monday night. A high-scoring game came down to the wire and North Pitt pulled out the win, 40-36, to improve to 4-2 on the season. The loss drops the Cougars to 4-3 on […]

Tarboro never let their opponents score on Friday. They took their game on the road with ease, bagging a 49-0 victory over the Bertie Falcons. Given the Vikings' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina football rankings (they are ranked 84th, while the Falcons are ranked 287th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Greenville’s police chief said that in 28 years of service he has never observed a case like the one officers took on Saturday after four sets of human remains were located at a former funeral home on North Greene Street. Chief Ted Sauls said the owner of what used to be B.G. Barrett Funeral Home, 402 N. Greene St., attempted to call him personally several times after finding presumed human remains about 7 p.m. Saturday. The business sits near a Speedway convenience store just north...

It was a proper cat-fight when SouthWest Edgecombe duked it out withNorth Pitt on Monday. The SouthWest Edgecombe Cougars took a 40-36 hit to the loss column at the hands of the North Pitt Panthers. The Cougars were given a dose of their own medicine in this game as the Panthers apparently hadn't forgotten their loss the last time these teams played back in September of 2023.

“I’ve never seen anything like this in my life-- in my 25 years I’ve been doing it — never,” said Jack Thorpe, director of the N.C. Trooper’s Association K-9 SAR Unit.

An upcoming regional annual event held in downtown Rocky Mount is going to occur in a different but much larger location within the heart of the city. The 2024 Eastern North Carolina BBQ Throw Down is set for Friday evening and much of the day Saturday at the Rocky Mount Event Center. In years past, the event was held adjacent to the Helen P. Gay Rocky Mount Historic Train Station. ...

NASH COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) — Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall on the west coast of Florida on Wednesday, and several counties in the southwestern part of the state have already ordered residents to evacuate. Several cars with Florida license plates were coming in and out of the...

The Halifax County Sheriff’s Office reported the following, according to Major Anzell M. Harris:. On Monday shortly before 11 p.m., Sergeant D. Harrison was patrolling in the Hollister area when he noticed a vehicle that was emitting white lights from the taillights while the vehicle was in motion. Harrison...

BETHEL — At Bethel Baptist Church, one of the rooms downstairs has become a mini convenience store. The lower parking lot has become a landing zone for helicopters and a place to take a hot shower. An area on the top floor became a FEMA office to help people apply for disaster relief. Above all, it has become a place for the community after the devastation Hurricane Helene left in the High Country. On Sunday morning, the church held its first service after the storm. ...

The sunset included ominous breezes and repeated rumbling thunder on a November day in 1957. After dark, a small businessman returned to his Edgecombe County home on a unique 18 acres surrounded by traditional farms on all sides. In the darkness, he saw outlines of the destruction done by a horrid tornado less than an hour before. His ranch home, auto and part of his landscape nursery were destroyed. Three traumas were blown into his existence in one disastrous minute. ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. — In early September Greenville Police made an arrest in the departments fourth cold case solved this year alone. Greenville Police Detective Jeffrey Dixon says, "looking at cold case you can see it from an outside perspective." Detective Dixon was assigned Delashon Andrews case back in March...