This week’s Teacher of the Week started working in the classroom as a volunteer in her 20s.
“As soon as I started volunteering in the classroom, I knew it was for me,” said Mary C. Williams Elementary teacher Carla Bromstead.
Police have identified the victim in a shooting on 9th and Orange Streets in Wilmington. Police say 26 year old Martineze Vaughn died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds.
Federal health officials have confirmed that a patient being treated at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola.
Closing arguments are scheduled for tomorrow morning in the trial for former Fair Bluff Police Chief Marty Lewis.
Today Lewis took the witness stand in his own defense at the Columbus County Courthouse in Whiteville.
Columbus County detectives are investigating the discovery of a body found in a Whiteville creek.
A Surf City doctor’s license has been suspended after the NC Medical Board says he violated several standards for being a doctor in North Carolina, including drug abuse, substandard care and conduct issues.
The New Hanover County Health Department starts offering flu shots today.
The clinic is at the department, which is located at 2029 S. 17th Street in Wilmington.
Two people are dead after what investigators say was a home invasion in Hubert early Tuesday morning. A news release says the home owner, Jeremiah Hilton, was killed by one of the suspects, and another person in the home shot and killed one of the suspects, Willie Ware.
The fall campaign season is upon us. Tonight, candidates for NC House District 20 met for a debate sponsored by WWAY and WHQR. Rick Catlin and Betsy Jordan squared off in a candidate’s forum, and both candidates started off talking film incentives.
The North Carolina NAACP will hold a community meeting and memorial service for a Bladen County teen found dead last month.
The 22nd-ranked UNCW Seahawks will host 10th-ranked UNC Chapel Hill on Tuesday at the UNCW Soccer Stadium for a 7 p.m. kickoff. The UNC Tar Heels and the NC State Wolfpack football teams both lost over the weekend. We have reaction from former South Columbus Stallion Ethan Farmer and NC State head coach Dave Doeren. Plus, the Wilmington Tigers earned a playoff spot over the weekend.
Officials with the Wake County Public School System are offering sympathies after the deaths of three students in separate incidents in the past week.
The first of millions of taxpayer dollars in payments have been sent to private and religious schools across North Carolina while an appeals court considers a judge’s ruling that a new scholarship program for low-income public school children is unconstitutional on several levels.
A North Carolina Democratic Party leader has asked the State Board of Elections to investigate inaccuracies in voter registration application mailers sent by a conservative-leaning advocacy group.
U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis is continuing to try to shift the emphasis in his race against Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan to foreign policy in a new television commercial.
A high school football player in North Carolina has died after he collapsed before a game last weekend.
Wake County Schools announced Monday that Isaiah Langston of Rolesville High School died after collapsing on the field before Friday night’s game with Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School.
North Carolina officials have come up with a license plate to commemorate the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolution.
The Gaston Gazette reported the plate was designed by Westmoreland Printers of Shelby.
A North Carolina group is reviewing the case of a man convicted of killing a University of North Carolina Charlotte student more than six years ago.
The Charlotte Observer reported the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence is investigating claims that 46-year-old Mark Carver was wrongly convicted of killing Irina Yarmolenko.
Many people don’t believe it’s possible to work out their whole body in less time. Many think you just can’t get the same effect as if you were exercising for hours.
But, according to WWAY’s Helen Holt, it is possible. She shows us in the Fit Minute.
Leland traffic is making headlines once again. Unannounced maintenance work led to a big build up of traffic last night. Today the DOT told us what they were doing and why it happened.
AT&T launched u-verse to portions of the county, including Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach.
AT&T says one of the advantages to u-verse is that they have internet, tv, and phone services working together.
It seems encounters with law enforcement are becoming more violent across the country. Even here, we’ve been following a story about a Wilmington police officer accused of choking and threatening a handcuffed teen in his patrol car. So, what are the approved use of force tactics?
It was a shocking sight for some residents of Oak Island on the beach yesterday when about 50 sharks were lying by the shore dead.
Dozens of sharks washed ashore ranging anywhere between 1 to 4 feet in size, now the NC Division of Marine Fisheries investigated the situation and they think they know the cause.
A big plate of Belgian Waffles for brunch at a fancy restaurant is nice, on occasion. Too bad we can’t have some every weekend. But, wait…who says? Alicia Ross has a recipe for Berry Good Belgian Waffles that you’ll love. She shares it in this week’s Kitchen Scoop.