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Updated: Dec. 3, 2021 at 12:35 PM EST
|By WITN Web Team
The Winston-Salem Police Department says Laela Jones is considered an endangered child.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2021 at 8:40 PM EST
|By Cindy Choi
Learn more about the more than two dozen new laws that took effect Wednesday in North Carolina.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2021 at 7:58 PM EST
|By Deric Rush
South African data reports show that the variant has already hospitalized children younger than two years old.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2021 at 4:17 PM EST
|By Conrad Hoyt
North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Robin Hudson will be 70 in February, and state law says justices must retire at the end of the month they reach age 72.
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Updated: Dec. 1, 2021 at 3:36 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Measures starting Wednesday are designed to protect expectant mothers behind bars in part by prohibiting their shackling.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2021 at 9:50 PM EST
|By Associated Press
A North Carolina appeals court has blocked enforcement of parts of a trial judge’s order that demanded $1.7 billion be spent by state agencies to address public education inequities.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2021 at 8:37 PM EST
|By Deric Rush
Firemen have been monitoring the conditions on Pilot Mountain and say these types of burns are especially likely in rural areas.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2021 at 4:14 PM EST
|By Conrad Hoyt
Dr. Mandy Cohen said the Omicron variant likely did not originate in Africa, but “we still have a lot to learn” about it.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2021 at 3:54 PM EST
|By WITN Web Team
Dr. Mandy Cohen, the secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services is stepping down.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2021 at 11:51 AM EST
|By WBTV Web Staff
This comes after Dr. Mandy Cohen resigned
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Updated: Nov. 29, 2021 at 9:31 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Two Buncombe County Democrats in the North Carolina state House are planning to leave the legislature.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2021 at 6:26 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Lawmakers are scheduled to return in December, but only for limited purposes such as veto overrides and redistricting changes.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2021 at 5:23 PM EST
|By Associated Press
A trial judge earlier this month ordered North Carolina officials to allocate $1.75 billion to address education inequities.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2021 at 3:24 PM EST
|By Conrad Hoyt
Trooper Daniel Harrell was honored for his heroics during a 2019 chase of a man who shot him after a traffic stop.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2021 at 11:30 AM EST
|By WBTV Web Staff
The park is about 100 miles north of Charlotte in Surry and Yadkin counties.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2021 at 12:18 AM EST
|By WITN Web Team
The North Miami Beach Police Department did not say where 15-year-old Jeimy Henrriquez was located.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2021 at 4:20 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Police say a 15-year-old South Florida girl may have been kidnapped and taken to North Carolina by someone she met in an online video game.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2021 at 3:57 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Saturday’s 1.9 magnitude occurred shortly before 8 a.m. about 3.1 miles southwest of Winston-Salem.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2021 at 3:37 PM EST
|By Associated Press
The database will be for law enforcement agencies to use in an effort to weed out problem officers.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2021 at 1:48 PM EST
|By WBTV Web Staff
The Pilot Knob Volunteer Fire Department is responding to a large fire in the woods on Pilot Mountain State Park.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2021 at 4:58 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Jim Avett posted on Facebook that the fire started from a golf cart and that half the house is beyond repair.
Updated: Nov. 26, 2021 at 5:42 PM EST
|By WITN Web Team
The Streets of Southpoint was crowded with Black Friday shoppers when the shooting happened.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2021 at 5:12 PM EST
|By Associated Press
The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed a 2.3 magnitude earthquake occurred at 4:05 a.m. Wednesday in Winston-Salem.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2021 at 3:45 PM EST
|By Associated Press
House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger want to formally step into a pending federal case to defend the law.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2021 at 4:44 PM EST
|By WITN Web Team
Aiden Bilyard is the latest person arrested for the U.S. Capitol breach.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2021 at 1:55 PM EST
|By WITN Web Team
Father Francis Gillespie, a Jesuit priest, filled in at Mother of Mercy Church from June to August.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2021 at 9:47 AM EST
|By WITN Web Team
Former State Sen. Erica Smith says the campaign will be “people-powered” and “refuse large corporate PAC and fossil fuel industry donations.”
Updated: Nov. 22, 2021 at 7:58 PM EST
|By Deric Rush
The extension is expected to bring over 3,400 new jobs, and generate about $19 million in state and local tax benefits for the county.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2021 at 10:27 AM EST
|By WITN Web Team
Officials said a strong north wind cause the fire to spread to adjacent structures quickly.
Updated: Nov. 19, 2021 at 7:54 PM EST
|By Associated Press and GARY D. ROBERTSON
Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. was supposed to report to prison by Dec. 1 to serve a six-month term.
Updated: Nov. 19, 2021 at 7:39 PM EST
|By Associated Press and GARY D. ROBERTSON
Smith is a former 2020 U.S. Senate candidate who lost the Democratic nomination to Cal Cunningham.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2021 at 10:02 PM EST
|By Conrad Hoyt
The White House says Allen Thomas will serve as the regional administrator for Region 4 of the Small Business Administration.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2021 at 6:08 PM EST
|By Maddie Kerth
Butterfield took aim at congressional redistricting recently passed by the General Assembly’s Republican majority as a reason for not running for re-election.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2021 at 3:39 PM EST
|By WITN Web Team
Gov. Cooper quickly signed the budget Thursday afternoon.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 9:16 PM EST
|By Cindy Choi
A working budget was stalled after months of back and forth and many Democratic lawmakers especially had higher hopes of tackling many lingering issues.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 8:56 PM EST
|By Conrad Hoyt
The Association of Mexicans in North Carolina and its executive director Juvencio Rocha-Peralta received the award at the Pitt County Commissioners meeting.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 8:18 PM EST
|By Deric Rush
Under the new state budget, teachers and other state employees will receive a 2.5% increase in their annual salaries.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 4:39 PM EST
|By Conrad Hoyt
This is the 3rd time the farm has provided the White House Christmas tree and the 14th time the White House Christmas tree has come from North Carolina.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 4:13 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed similar efforts in the past and Democrats are not on board with the plans GOP lawmakers have put forward.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 2:53 PM EST
|By Conrad Hoyt
A press release from Tillis’ office says the move to overturn the mandate for private employers is guaranteed a Senate vote as soon as early December.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 2:14 PM EST
|By Conrad Hoyt
The NCDHHS reported 2,171 new cases of COVID-19 in the state Wednesday, up from 1,339 on Tuesday.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2021 at 4:20 PM EST
|By WITN Web Team
The White House says the Bidens will celebrate Thanksgiving with military families at Fort Bragg.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2021 at 11:06 AM EST
|By Nick Ochsner
Dowless, the political operative at the center of the 9th Congressional District scandal in 2018, is currently supposed to report to federal prison on December 1.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2021 at 10:32 AM EST
|By WITN Web Team
Gov. Roy Cooper said he will sign a state budget agreement that the Republican-controlled legislature is expected to pass within days.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2021 at 10:18 AM EST
|By WITN Web Team
Shane Anthony Sharpe, of Taylorsville, was killed in the collapse of a 10-foot deep trench at an Alexander County shopping center.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2021 at 10:33 PM EST
|By WITN Web Team
The winning numbers, 0-0-0-0, are known as “Quads” among Pick 4 players.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2021 at 10:30 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Investigators said the driver was the only person in the car wearing a seatbelt and did not have significant injuries.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2021 at 3:53 PM EST
|By WECT Staff
During a routine inspection of the zoo on Oct. 4, inspectors found that the tiger, Sasha, had an open wound that was about 1.5 inches long on her left ear.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 at 10:19 PM EST
|By Cindy Choi
ENC lawmakers react to a judge's ruling on school funding.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 at 6:50 PM EST
|By Maddie Kerth
Why are many North Carolinians unaware of the details of this historic event?