Bond was increased for the man arrested for allegedly trespassing inside Manteo Elementary, and the Dare school board has set a Tuesday evening special meeting on school safety.

A man with a Canadian address was arrested Thursday on a misdemeanor “first-degree trespass enter/remain” charge for his alleged unlawful entry of Manteo Elementary School in Manteo. The same 37-year-old was arrested and charged last month with felony first-degree burglary in Kitty Hawk.

A Wanchese man was arrested Thursday on two charges related to his alleged fatal shooting of another person’s dog.

In Dare County Superior Court in Manteo, a Stumpy Point man recently pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the April 2024 fatal stabbing of a man by pirate sword.

The U.S. Coast Guard reported that it rescued five people after their sailboat began taking on water 260 nautical miles offshore Cape Hatteras on Thursday.

A Kitty Hawk woman is facing misdemeanor simple assault, attempted larceny and disorderly conduct charges following an arrest for her alleged behavior toward a protester at Saturday’s “No Kings” protest in Kitty Hawk.

Five days after a Manteo police officer fatally shot a resident, the district attorney released a statement that the shooting was “tragic” but “lawful,” meaning he will not file charges against the officer. The SBI investigation remains ongoing.

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation on Monday afternoon released the name of the officer with the Manteo Police Department who was involved in the fatal officer-involved shooting on Mother Vineyard Road last Thursday.

A Manteo police officer discharged their firearm after being “confronted by an armed subject” on Thursday afternoon, and the latter died at the scene, according to a press release from the Dare County Sheriff’s Office.

A Dare County man who sustained life-threatening injuries and required extrication following Friday afternoon’s head-on vehicle collision in Kill Devil Hills is now in stable condition, and three other people who were hospitalized have since been released, according to police.

A vehicle collision caused a serious injury on Friday afternoon in Kill Devil Hills, police confirmed to Outer Banks Insider.

The brother of a man fatally stabbed by a pirate sword last April in Stumpy Point said his family is “very frustrated” that the state keeps pushing them to accept a plea deal for the man accused of murder to serve a seven-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter instead.

The Kill Devil Hills Police Department on Tuesday arrested two local 17-year-olds in connection with the death of Zane Thomas Hughes, 19, from a fatal shooting at Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills in July.

No serious injuries were reported in a two-vehicle, officer-involved crash that took place in Kitty Hawk on Saturday, Aug. 30, but a 16-year-old’s vehicle was likely totaled, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.

The Dare County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in providing information related to an incident last Monday, Aug. 25, in Manteo, that resulted in serious injuries to two people.

An Outer Banks man already listed on the state sex offender registry was arrested in the Charlotte area for multiple alleged sexual crimes against children.

A Kill Devil Hills bicyclist remained hospitalized as of early Monday afternoon following a Friday morning collision with a truck driven by a New Jersey resident.

Dare and Hyde counties each issued a state of emergency declaration Sunday evening and mandatory evacuation orders for Hatteras Island and Ocracoke Island as potentially dangerous conditions from Hurricane Erin are expected to begin Tuesday.

Three people across the Outer Banks contracted Vibrio infections from open wound exposures to sound water in July, including two people who were hospitalized, according to area health officials.

A grand jury on Monday morning indicted a Kill Devil Hills teen with one count of first-degree murder and with one count of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill inflicting serious injury following the July 31 shooting at Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills.