Kitty Hawk News

Elizabeth City police have arrested four teenagers in connection with a beating and robbery on Saturday.

Published: Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 10:52 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 10:52 p.m. Two local teenagers and 2009 Laney High School graduates, Molly Spears and Katie Fischetti, recently organized a 5K race/1-mile walk at Mayfaire to raise funds to help offset medical expenses for a former Wesleyan Chapel United Methodist Church youth ...

Western North Carolina ensemble Balsam Range announced their debut with authority on 2007's acclaimed "Marching Home." That album originated as a solo effort for fiddler and versatile singer Buddy Melton.

A new book by an East Carolina University history professor reveals how five reporters had to hide to watch the Wright brother's flight at Kitty Hawk.

On a breezy Thursday in 1908, five big-city reporters hid in a patch of woods, scratched at chiggers biting their sweaty bodies and bore secret witness to the marvel of a new century: the Wright Brothers circling Kill Devil Hill in a gasoline-powered airplane.

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Swashbuckling ... Charles Kingsford Smith on arrival in Brisbane, 1928. Peter FitzSimons writes that he was irresistibly drawn to the derring-do and big personalities that set the aviation pioneers apart.

Thanks to clouds on Saturday, our high temperatures in the WITN viewing area topped out in the low and mid 90s, even 94 in Kitty Hawk.

Bad news for North Carolina as the unemployment rate hit a new high. It's now 11.1 percent.

Blasting off at the popular Brooklyn Frame Works Gallery, in Park Slope for a dozen years, is the new "Outer Space 2.0" exhibit of antique astronomical prints, space-program and science fiction-movie posters, and various ephemera that will send visitors into an artistic orbit.

Q. My family, including a 3-year-old and a dog, is heading to the Outer Banks next week for a much-needed vacation.

I've never vacationed in Nags Head , NC. I've never stayed in Kitty Hawk , slept over in Kill Devil Hills and only once, after a long drive, have I stepped foot on Hatteras Island .

The N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission has made changes to this week's meeting plans in order to keep travel and other costs to a minimum.

If there remain any naysayers who question the sustainability of an aviation convention in Robeson County, they were easily silenced by the roars of hundreds of aircraft that flew into the Lumberton Regional Airport for this weekenda TMs seventh annual Mid-Atlantic Fly-In & Sport Aviation Convention.

LUMBERTON a ' Keep your eyes to the skies as the annual Mid-Atlanic Fly-In & Sport Aviation Convention is ready to take off Friday through Sunday at the Lumberton Regional Airport.

University of North Carolina at Greensboro held its spring 2009 commencement exercise last Friday in the Greensboro Coliseum Complex's arena with North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue serving as the commencement speaker.

Fire crews from the Kill Devil Hills Fire Department responded to a motel fire Monday afternoon at the Mariner Motel on North Virginia dare Trial.

A fire this afternoon damaged several units in the Days Inn & Suites Mariner, a news release from the town's fire department said.

How safe are the foods you eat, and how clean are the facilities that produce, store and sell them? It is the task of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Food and Drug Division to track the approximately 9,000 grocery stores, bakeries and food plants to ensure they meet food safety standards.

A police officer was killed in a crash as he responded to call early Friday. Sgt. Dulan Earl Murray, Jr., 48, of Kitty Hawk, lost control of his vehicle on S. Croatan Highway and crashed into a power pole around 3:00 a.m. Sgt.