Ayden News

A man is charged with attempted murder after Pitt County deputies say he put a pillow over a woman's head at her home and wrapped an oxygen cord around her neck.

Wednesday's storms brought funnel clouds and flash street flooding to parts of Eastern Carolina, along with quarter and golf ball-sized hail.

Greenville police responded to a shots fired call at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday in the area of Chestnut and West 14th Streets.

For some time now, commercial barbecue sauce has been progressing from its Dark Ages, when slow-smoked meats were tortured with bland, sweet, corporate slathers, to a more enlightened era of complex boutique sauces flavored with ingredients from habaneros to peaches.

One person was hospitalized with minor injuries after a plane crash in Pitt County Saturday afternoon.

A recent vote to make serving liquor by the drink legal was so close in Ayden there will be recount.

In Pitt County, voters are deciding on a heated topic. The town added a liquor by the drink referendum to next week's ballot.