Jeffrey “Jeff” Deringer is one of four Republican primary candidates for Dare County sheriff. No candidates from any other political parties filed to run in the race.

Theodore “Teddy” Daniels is one of four Republican primary candidates for Dare County sheriff. No candidates from any other political parties filed to run in the race.

The Dare County Sheriff’s Office is still seeking the public’s assistance after announcing in a Saturday night press release the finding of a body believed to be the Wanchese man missing since at least early December.

A Nags Head resident was cited for “failure to stop at a steady red light” after Sunday’s two-vehicle crash in Kill Devil Hills, according to a police spokesperson.

Dare County Commissioner Carson Creef addressed his recent arrest during closing remarks at Thursday’s Dare County Board of Commissioners meeting and asked for forgiveness.

The National Park Service has identified the body found on Bodie Island on Sunday, Jan. 25.

North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation Director Roger “Chip” Hawley on Tuesday called the formation of the eight-agency Northeastern Drug Task Force a “historic event for northeastern North Carolina.”

Dare County residents have voiced concerns over the choice of the regional GOP leader—who formerly, during his time of employment as a police officer, was convicted of multiple counts of indecent liberties with a child—as the event moderator for the Dare GOP’s recent forum for board of education candidates.

Unspecified injuries were reported after an officer-involved shooting took place in Hatteras Village late Thursday night.

The two Dare County Schools maintenance workers who were dismissed in November following the trespass incident at Manteo Elementary School submitted a letter to the school board and attorneys formally withdrawing their appeal, but also reiterating their objections.

The school resource officer at Nags Head Elementary School on Tuesday arrested a parent attempting to pick up his child from school, charging him with a violation of a domestic violence protective order.

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The school resource officer at Nags Head Elementary School arrested a parent in the school pick-up line on Thursday on four drug charges, including felony possession of cocaine and methamphetamine.

A judge on Monday ruled that the district attorney can withhold case information from the mother of the teen fatally shot outside Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills in July.

A 40-year-old Kill Devil Hills man arrested Sunday, charged with the Saturday night shooting that sent another Kill Devil Hills man to the hospital, bonded out within minutes, court records show.

Two men who said they were employed as maintenance workers for Dare County Schools until their recent dismissals because of the Manteo Elementary School trespass incident shared what they saw as concerning systemic issues.

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.