Archive - Feb 22, 2013

With the Academy Awards this weekend, we wanted to make sure we got our area's foremost movie buff in here to handicap the Oscars. Full story...

While Academy Award nominees are hoping to lift up a gold statue, they are holding onto a piece of Cape Fear in the meantime. Full story...

With the Oscars Sunday night, you might want to start the day off with something "Hollywood." Alicia Ross has a brunch dish that's perfect for the occasion. It's something that's comforting, but still has that razzle-dazzle. Full story...

New Hanover County is cracking down on sweepstakes parlors still running despite a law against them. The owner of 777 Sweepstakes faces a citation of running an illegal gambling operation on Gordon Road. Full story...

The US Army Corps of Engineers began dredging the Carolina Beach Inlet today at the north end of Freeman Park. Full story...

Wilmington Police say around 2:30 p.m. a young black male dressed in a black hoodie and black jeans robbed a downtown business at gunpoint. Full story...

Business owners and employees forced to evacuate yesterday as state and federal agents investigated explosive in a Carolina Beach Road storage unit went back to work this morning. Full story...

A North Carolina television station's top political reporter will become Gov. Pat McCrory's next communications director. Full story...

With rain in the forecast, UNCW baseball has moved its game Friday with Lehigh to a 2 p.m. start. Full story...

FBI and SBI agents have detonated a second suspicious package found at a storage facility on Carolina Beach Road. Earlier today another package exploded as a bomb robot shot at it as agents tried to figure out what was in it. Full story...

The Hoggard boys basketball team will be in the Mideastern Conference championship game for the fifth year in a row. It'll be the Vikings vs. the New Hanover Wildcats on Friday. In the Waccamaw Conference slowing the game down worked for the West Brunswick boys. They'll be in the finals on Friday. The East Bladen girls knocked off arch-rival West Bladen on Friday. Plus more! Full story...

Law enforcement leaders met today to discuss the possibility of a regional lab that could help speed up some investigations. Full story...

Sen. Thom Goolsby says it's time officials who violate state public records and open meetings laws are punished. That's why he's filed a bill that would could send violators to jail. Full story...