Per the N&O:

When a news anchor at WRAL-TV received off-color, threatening e-mail messages, she didn’t hit the delete key. She notified the State Bureau of Investigation.SBI agents said four anchors and a meteorologist at the station received inflammatory messages, sent from a public computer terminal at a Benson library.

On Wednesday, the SBI arrested and charged Fern Georges, 33, with cyberstalking and ethnic intimidation, both misdemeanors. …

The messages directed to Owens and anchor Pam Saulsby, both African-Americans, were racially charged. In one e-mail, the sender wrote, “Please tell Gerald Owens that if he keeps playing under the table, I’ll burn a cross in his bedroom.”

The suspect: