Lauren Beachy

6 days ago | wnct.com | Ken Watlington |Brian Bailey |Zach Kaplan |Lauren Beachy

KINSTON, N.C. (WNCT) — The Down East Bird Dawgs had their first-ever regular season baseball game at Grainger Stadium in Kinston Friday, May 9, 2025. The game starts at 7 p.m. and gates opened at 6 p.m. The stadium has come changes since the Down East Wood Ducks played their final game there in the fall of 2024. A new videoboard was installed beyond the outfield wall. Another new addition to the historic stadium is a patio section along the third-base line.

3 weeks ago | wnct.com | Mekaela Muck |Lauren Beachy

PITT COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — The Pitt County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit started working on an Internet Crimes Against Children case on February 25. This led up to an April 17 arrest. James August Samuelson, 44 years old and from Farmville, was arrested on April 17 after multiple search warrants were executed. Detectives from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation helped identify Samuelson as the alleged perpetrator.

3 weeks ago | wnct.com | Jackson Saylor |Erin Jenkins |Lauren Beachy |Jordan Honeycutt

BEAUFORT COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — A School Resource Officer at Snowden Elementary School got a complaint Monday, Apr. 14, 2025, from the school’s administration that a student may have had a gun on a bus. A witness shared the student had the gun in a bookbag and tossed it out of the window of the bus. The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office took immediate action to secure the school. Investigators responded to the school and found the juvenile did have a handgun and threw it from the bus.

1 month ago | wnct.com | Lauren Beachy |Erin Jenkins

GREENVILLE, NC (WNCT) — A former East Carolina University student who went viral on TikTok is speaking out after being arrested twice by campus police. Faith Pellini, who is no longer enrolled at ECU, gained millions of views on social media after posting a video claiming she confronted a man at an off-campus party who she said sexually assaulted female students. Following the viral post, Pellini was arrested twice for trespassing on campus grounds.

1 month ago | wnct.com | Lauren Beachy |Kenneth Roundtree |Mekaela Muck

WILSON, N.C. (WNCT) — Johnson and Johnson broke ground on their new bio-pharmaceutical facility in Wilson Friday. Governor Josh Stein joined the company in celebrating this milestone. Governor Stein speaks on Johnson and Johnson facility groundbreaking in WilsonWhen the facility opens it will help the company grow their pipeline of transformational medicines. This will also add thousands of jobs here in North Carolina.