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Skip to content Traffic stop reveals 40-45 lbs marijuana. (Source: NHCSO) By WECT Staff | September 18, 2020 at 8:57 PM EDT - Updated September 18 at 8:57 PM … [Read more...] about Narcotics investigation and traffic stop reveals 40-45 pounds of marijuana

Skip to content Pedestrian hit by teen driver on Oak Island transported to NHRMC (Source: WALB) By WECT Staff | September 18, 2020 at 7:21 PM EDT - Updated September … [Read more...] about Teen driver hits pedestrian on Oak Island

By Kendall McGee | September 18, 2020 at 6:50 PM EDT - Updated September 18 at 8:23 PM WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) -It’s been years, but Wendy Grimm still remembers hearing the sound of an elderly … [Read more...] about Mother voices concerns about busy Wilmington road after deadly crashes

By WECT Staff | September 18, 2020 at 6:22 PM EDT - Updated September 18 at 8:24 PM NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - Community input is requested for the final asset purchase agreement of New … [Read more...] about New Hanover County and NHRMC share final asset purchase agreement, announce public hearing

The video is for Kygo’s remix of Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff” Carolina Beach dive bar, Fat Pelican, is featured in new music video starring Chase Stokes and Madelyn Cline (Source: wect) … [Read more...] about Carolina Beach’s Fat Pelican featured in music video featuring stars of ‘Outer Banks’

By Emily Featherston | September 18, 2020 at 3:48 PM EDT - Updated September 18 at 8:27 PM SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA (WECT) - Residents of a Hampstead neighborhood said they could tell the … [Read more...] about Sally remnants leave behind storm damage, flooding in Cape Fear

Arrmanah Crawford, 20, has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. (Source: NHCSO) By WECT Staff | September 18, 2020 at 2:25 PM … [Read more...] about Female suspect accused of stabbing woman while in car on 17th Street

Skip to content Samuel Eugene Jordan (Source: Columbus County Sheriff's Office) By WECT Staff | September 18, 2020 at 1:14 PM EDT - Updated September 18 at 3:03 PM … [Read more...] about Columbus Co. deputies search for missing elderly man

Skip to content Columbus County commissioner charged with felonies By WECT Staff | September 18, 2020 at 11:46 AM EDT - Updated September 18 at 3:25 PM … [Read more...] about Columbus County commissioner facing two felonies in theft of barn

By WECT Staff | September 18, 2020 at 10:52 AM EDT - Updated September 18 at 11:13 AM RALEIGH, N.C. (WECT) - The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality has issued a permit for a water … [Read more...] about DEQ issues permit for water treatment system at Chemours site