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November 20, 2009

Complaints about PTSD treatment at Camp Lejeune

A civilian psychiatrist said he was fired from his job at Camp Lejeune after complaining about the PTSD treatment offered to marines.

Tuition will rise at East Carolina University, but how much?

NC General Assembly: Tuition will go up by 8%

Perdue Aims to Brings More Jobs to NC through Port of Morehead City

The Governor toured the Port of Morehead City today and explained her take on the Port’s role in today’s economy.

EXCLUSIVE: 16 year old nearly killed in hunting accident speaks for the first time

Hunting and drinking can be a deadly combination and one family in the east says earlier this week, it nearly was.

US to drop shooting case against Blackwater guard

WASHINGTON (AP) - Prosecutors say they’ll drop manslaughter charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide contractors charged in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting.

UPDATE: Marine faces murder and burglary charges in connection with death of fellow Marine

More details surface regarding the homicide investigation of Cpl. Joshua Hartzell. A fellow marine has been arrested.

USER GENERATED CONTENT: Can you identify this bird?

A mystery bird sparked numerous phone calls and e-mails to the WNCT newsroom today after Storm Team 9 Meteorologist Gannon Medwick featured the viewer submitted picture on Friday’s Noon newscast.

Police: NC girl raped, killed on day she was taken

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Authorities say a 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home.

NC unemployment rate bumps up to 11 percent

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina’s unemployment rate rose slightly to 11 percent in October, a fraction off its historic peak earlier this year and the ninth straight month in double digits.

Mosquitoes out in full force after recent rains

The recent rain and mild weather is causing a return of mosquitoes.

Boil water advisory lifted for Bear Creek

Good news for the folks living in the Bear Creek area.

NC judge bans talks over smaller jail than planned

YADKINVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina judge has issued an order preventing a committee in Yadkin County from meeting to discuss overhauling plans for a jail to replace a closed lockup.

Sink Your Teeth Into This: Is someone you know a “Twi-hard” fan?

Thousands of people started off their Friday by catching the midnight showing of “New Moon.”

Man critically injured in Rocky Mt. shooting

Police in Rocky Mount are looking for two suspects involved in a shooting that left one man critically injured.

DNA evidence sends NC killer to prison

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A man has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison after new DNA evidence tied him to the 1995 slaying of a woman who rejected him.

NC female inmates allege sexual assaults in prison

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Four female inmates say North Carolina’s prisons subjected them and other prisoners to sexual violence and harassment amounting to cruel and unusual punishment.

New commander Marine Corps Special Operations

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.(AP) - The Marine Corps special operations unit is getting a new commander and a new headquarters.

October could signal direction for NC jobless rate

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina’s unemployment figures for October could show whether a predicted late-year jobs crunch is hitting the state economy.

Artifacts from Queen Anne’s Revenge go on display

GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Artifacts from the shipwreck of what’s believed to have been Blackbeard’s flagship will be shown off in an eastern North Carolina lab.

November 19, 2009

NC DOC recalculates good conduct credits for 27 inmates

Bobby Bowden’s attorney Staples Hughes calls challenge a political war

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