Two North Carolina school districts and one in South Carolina are among 16 nationwide to land federal funds in the first time competitive federal Race to the Top grants have gone directly to local school leaders.
Gov. Bev Perdue and Gov.-elect Pat McCrory are going to visit North Carolina military bases together this week to build relationships between the incoming governor and installation and community leaders.
Dan Forest isn’t waiting until North Carolina’s public inauguration to become North Carolina’s next lieutenant governor.
A Robeson County teen pleaded guilty Tuesday to misdemeanor death by motor vehicle in a fatal accident in June in which her father was killed.
The NCDOT will close the left, eastbound lane of the Brunswick River Bridge tomorrow night. The bridge carries US 17/74/76 over the Brunswick River just east of Leland.
Carolina Beach Town Councilman Bob Lewis says he is taking the steps to get property he owns properly registered with New Hanover County.
Brunswick County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested three people in connection with the robbery of a Calabash sweepstakes parlor last month.
Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue has overturned the suspensions of four current and former New Orleans Saints players in the league’s bounty investigation of the club.
A former New Hanover County Sheriff’s deputy made his first appearance in court this morning after SBI agents arrested him yesterday. Harold Lamont Fletcher, 37, is charged with one count of secret peeping and one count of indecent liberties with a minor.
A federal safety board is recommending that all states require ignition interlock devices for convicted drunk drivers, including first-time offenders.
A man was hit and killed on Cedar Hill Road in Brunswick County this morning. Highway Patrol says a truck passed a school bus in a passing zone around 6 a.m. and hit 61-year-old Samuel Howard Peterson who was walking in the road.
Police say there’s no evidence of foul play in the death of a paratrooper from western Michigan who was found dead at a home near his base in North Carolina.
Thousands more people will be able to enjoy the North Carolina Azalea Festival’s concerts at a larger location next April.
Organizers announced Cape Fear Community College’s parking lot on North Front Street across from the Schwartz Center will be the venue for the festival’s headliner concerts.
The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority says crews responded to and repaired a spill from the sanitary sewer system yesterday. Approximately 2,400 gallons was discharged, which flowed directly into the City of Wilmington Storm Drain system and then into the Cape Fear River.
A former New Hanover County Sheriff’s deputy is set to appear in court this afternoon on felony charges. The State Bureau of Investigation arrested and charged Harold Lamont Fletcher, 37, with one count of secret peeping and one count of indecent liberties with a minor.
Veteran girls basketball coach Karlyn Stephens has resigned from East Columbus High School in order to accept a job at Southeastern Community College. Stephens will coach the softball team at SECC. She’ll also be a physical education instructor. Monday was a light night for high school hoops, but we still managed to find action on the hardwood.
A man convicted of kidnapping his 2-year-old son from North Carolina and fleeing with him to Mexico six years ago is sentenced to between five and six years in prison.
A program at a private North Carolina university is giving nearly $1 million to more than a dozen theologians and philosophers in the U.S. and Great Britain who study the essence of human character.
Wake Forest University said Monday the effort to better understand virtue and vice called The Character Project has awarded 16 grants to scholars.
Along with the fiscal cliff, have you ever heard of the dairy cliff? The Farm Bill is set to expire and that could send the price of milk sky rocketing, some reports say double.
Two state lawmakers from Wilmington say they want to pass new laws to battle the problem of sex trafficking of minors in North Carolina and offer more treatment and less punishment to its young victims.
With the country heading closer to the edge of the so-called fiscal cliff, many Americans are hoping Congress will reach a compromise soon.
One UNCW professor says she has come up with a plan that would satisfy both sides.
Carolina Beach Town Council has been in the spotlight in recent weeks, and the former mayor is not ready to give up the attention yet. Last night Ray Rothrock e-mailed our newsroom with allegations of unpaid property taxes by Councilman Bob Lewis.
Wilmington has been been selected by as a top retirement destination.
“Where to Retire” magazine will profile the Port City in “8 Hot Towns to Snap Up Bargains Now” in the
January/February issue.
The Bald Head Island Conservancy says the beached whale that was pushed back into the ocean yesterday, washed back on shore dead this morning.