North Carolina

A girl was killed Saturday when she was struck by a vehicle towing a float for a holiday parade in North Carolina, police said

Clarissa Rankin has been a professional truck driver for five years, and makes more than she’s made in any previous job. In 2021, she brought in $144,000.

Police say a 15-year-old boy fatally shot five people in an attack that stretched from the streets of a Raleigh neighborhood to a nearby walking trail.

One of the people killed was an off-duty police officer.

Police in North Carolina say a severed finger left at the scene of an attempted home invasion led investigators to a suspect in the case.

A California man is suing the makers of ‘Texas Pete’ because the hot sauce is made in North Carolina and not in Texas.

Officials in western Massachusetts are investigating a crash that resulted in the death of North Carolina a woman whom police believe failed to stop at a stop sign this weekend. The incident, which Massachusetts State Police responded to around 5:35 p.m. Saturday in Ashfield, Massachusetts, resulted in the death of a 53-year-old woman from Winston-Salem. State police said they believe…

A class ring from Tewksbury, Massachusetts, missing for more than four decades, is finally going back to its owner. Back before Jon Richards got married and started a family, he says he had nothing but time on his hands. “I bought a metal detector in 1980 and I took it all around,” the Wilmington resident said. Richards used to spend…

A ring missing more than four decades is going back where it belongs.

Democratic candidates have decried North Carolina’s newly reinstated abortion restrictions in the week after a federal judge lifted an injunction on a state law banning nearly all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. But some North Carolina Democrats say the ruling was the catalyst their party needed to reinvigorate its political prospects in what would have likely been a losing...

Federal investigators say a man who jumped to his death from a small airplane in North Carolina appeared to be upset over damaging the landing gear during a failed runaway approach and told the pilot he needed air.

When schools in one North Carolina county reopen later this month, new security measures will include stocking AR-15 rifles for school resource officers to use in the event of an active shooter. School officials and Madison County Sheriff Buddy Harwood have placed one semiautomatic rifle in each of the county’s six schools. Each of the guns will be locked inside...

The co-pilot’s body was found in the backyard of a home near North Carolina’s Raleigh-Durham International Airport, where the pilot was able to land the plane on Friday.

The man’s body was found in the backyard of a home near North Carolina’s Raleigh-Durham International Airport, where the pilot was able to land the plane.

Debbie Tomlinson could only find one way to get a giant bear to leave her porch.

Police say a man fired a gun inside a comedy club in North Carolina before actor and comedian Craig Robinson was set to perform.

At the Duke Lemur Center, each one of the endangered lemurs is precious. So when a staff member notices an injured lemur, the whole team mobilizes to protect it. NBC 7 San Diego’s Dagmar Midcap and LX News storyteller Cody Broadway follow the team as they rush to save a lemur, named Cassia by the staff, who has been bitten...

The Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina is not just a safe haven for the endangered primates — it may be a key safety net for the entire species.  Lemurs are the most endangered mammal group on Earth, with roughly 95% of lemur species at risk of extinction, according to the Duke Lemur Center.  Follow NBC 7 San Diego’s Dagmar…

Dramatic video of the incident obtained by NBC affiliate WITM of Eastern North Carolina shows elementary school-age children on the field hitting the ground at the sound of three gunshots.

William Friend, husband to “One Tree Hill” alum Bevin Prince, recently died in a tragic accident. The 33-year-old was struck by lightning while out on a boat in North Carolina.