Elizabeth City police said a convicted sex offender shot himself at a local motel Tuesday evening minutes after officers tried to take him into custody for fleeing the custody of state probation officials.

Elijah Demetrius Humes, 23, shot himself at the Elizabeth City Days Inn shortly before 8 p.m.,…

Pasquotank County commissioners agreed Monday to impose a two-month moratorium on solar farms in response to a solar developer's apparent interest in building a massive solar farm in the county's “Desert” area.

Pasquotank County commissioners tentatively agreed to next year's county budget on Monday, balancing the roughly $44 million spending plan in part by trimming more than $700,000 from Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools' funding request.

Police responded to an apparent shooting incident at the Elizabeth City Days Inn on Tuesday evening.

Central Communications broadcast an alert to emergency medical personnel at 7:58 p.m. that there was a report of a juvenile male who had shot himself in the chest at the motel.

The alert advised…

A 20-year-old Camden County woman was sentenced to 25 to 31 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the 2016 stabbing death of a Camden teenager in Elizabeth City.

A Pasquotank County man has been sentenced to at least 13½ years in state prison after admitting in court Monday he sexually assaulted a teen employee at a local motel in 2016.

CAMDEN — Kevin Jones is now officially the Republican Party nominee for Camden sheriff in the fall election.

Shown is the new Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen restaurant off Ehringhaus Street in Elizabeth City.