The Craven County Sheriff’s Office, Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, North Carolina State Highway Patrol, and U.S. Marshals searched the wooded area for several hours but he wasn’t found. Witnesses said Connelly was wearing dark color pants, carrying a bag and not wearing a shirt.

Officials say the driver was thrown from the vehicle, which then caught fire, and the Marine arrived at the crash scene at the same time as the deputies.

The new Emergency Services Station 2 in Pollocksville was funded by a state grant, while renovations on the Emergency Operations Center in Trenton were supported by state dollars and a USDA Emergency Rural Healthcare Grant.

The reports are intended to help fisheries managers better understand harvest rates for certain species.

President & CEO of the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina Amy Beros said emergency food programs can’t replace the impact of federal nutrition assistance but quick action was needed to ensure critical support continues uninterrupted for those who need it most.

Food purchases investigated include more than $700 at Sugarcane Grill and Lounge for brunch for the American Defense Team, and $500 at Waterman’s Grill for a team dinner, including eight orders of Stuffed Flounder costing $32.99 each.

Sound Rivers and the Blounts Creek community have been fighting the permit to discharge wastewater from a limestone mine into the creek for more than a decade.

The Craven County Sheriff’s Office believes Dominic Connelly remains in the area of the Craven and Beaufort County line; they think he is walking northward, using fields and woods to avoid being caught. Officials said those densely wooded areas are making the search for Connelly difficult.

Nano Tyrannus lancensis was first identified in the 1940s but later largely dismissed by the paleontological community as just a younger T-rex. But the head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences said research has confirmed the differences between the two Tyrannosaurs were far greater than just size.

Attorney General Jeff Jackson said it’s too easy for kids to walk into a gas station and buy a product that is unregulated and could be really harmful for them, and federal protections are needed to keep kids safe.

Renee Fink, a Holocaust survivor from the Netherlands who lost her parents to Aushwitz and was given to a stranger at the age of four to remain in hiding until the war ended, will share her story with students at Morehead City Middle School on Tuesday.

Alicia Blevins, whose husband is a Marine, said she's going to see a therapist in large part because of the grinding uncertainty. "I don’t feel like I have the tools to deal with this,” said Blevins, 33, who lives at Camp Lejeune, a Marine base near North Carolina's coast. “I don’t want to dump all this on my husband. He’s got men that he’s in charge of. He’s got enough to deal with.”