Archive - Jan 8, 2013

Organizers in Iredell County have decided to end the Ole Time Fiddler's and Bluegrass Festival after 42 years. Hank Van Hoy, whose father Harper started the festival in 1970, said the decision was based in part on the difficulty of organizing the festival while working full time and the cost of putting it on. He said it was better to leave people with good memories rather than have something just die on the vine. Full story...

Police in Greensboro continue their search for a motive in the shooting deaths of two people in a townhome complex. Authorities said 14-year-old Maurice Edmonds II and his mother, 47-year-old Sandra Palmer were killed. Palmer's daughter, 18-year-old Danielle Jameison, and Palmer's boyfriend and Edmonds' father, 46-year-old Maurice Eugene Edmonds, were wounded. Full story...

Tuesday, the lottery announced Lisa Priola of Wilmington had won a $200,000 prize, and even included a picture of a woman with a big check. Later the lottery said it learned that the winner's mother, Grace Priola, was allowed to accept the prize of behalf of her daughter. Full story...

Do you ever feel like the person you're speaking to is talking in another language? Whether you don't understand the subject or your mind is wandering, it happens to the best of us. Full story...

The Carolina Beach Town Council has hired Bruce Shell to serve as interim town manager. Full story...

The Brunswick County Board of Education approved taking $245,838 from fund balance to retain school resource officers in all elementary schools for the remainder of the 2012-13 school year. Full story...

New Hanover County Schools announced today the latest dropout rate is 2.26%, the lowest it's been since the 2001-2002 academic year and lower than last year's 3.83%. Full story...

The North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher opened its doors to eight injured loggerhead sea turtles New Years Day. Full story...

A familiar face started a job in a new place. Today was Tim Owens's first day as Wrightsville Beach's town manager. Full story...

A Brunswick County man charged in connection with a baseball bat beating that killed another man says he is innocent. Full story...

UNCW recently hired an English professor whose previous publications are worrying some parents. Students say although some of the poems are shocking, they do not have a problem with the professor's risque work, and the university agrees. Full story...

A Wilmington family should be celebrating a loved one's milestone birthday. Instead, they're still trying to find out who killed him nearly six years ago. Full story...

Columbus County Superintendent Alan Faulk says safety is one of his school system's top priorities. At a meeting Monday night, educators asked county commissioners for support to make area schools safer. Full story...

North Carolina's attorney general says officers busted a record number of meth labs in 2012 as labs where a small amount of drug is made became more popular. Full story...

Investigators have linked a man arrested for allegedly breaking into cars last month to more break-ins. The New Hanover County Sheriff's Office says deputies arrested Justin Hunter Stroupe, 23, December 17. Full story...