NEW HANOVER COUNTY — Sheriff's deputies made an arrest of a 20-year-old male on felony cruelty to animals, breaking and entering, and second-degree trespassing…
For Sunshine Week — a national initiative for news organizations to highlight issues of open government — WECT, WHQR, and Port City Daily teamed up to submit identical public record requests. They went out to local governments containing six of the largest law enforcement agencies in the tri-county area.
SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — Local government finances are public record, but getting specifics can be easier said than done. For Sunshine Week — a national initiative…
New Hanover County banned the unhoused from sleeping on its property in early February, targeting a population that had congregated around the downtown library. So what’s happened since?
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A North Carolina district attorney says members of the Proud Boys who show up to public meetings in Wilmington in their trademark masks are violating state law.
District Attorney Ben David’s office provided guidance to Sheriff Ed McMahon this week, telling him the state’s 1953 anti-Klan bill banning masks and hoods used to “conceal the identity of the wearer” while on government property is “still in full effect.” But the Sheriff’s Office will continue to take a laissez-faire approach to enforcing that law against the neo-fascist group, saying it won’t get involved in the ‘mask debate.’
DA says masking for anonymity at public meetings is illegal, but NHCSO won't unmask the Proud Boys whqr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from whqr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
NEW HANOVER COUNTY — After the right-wing extremist group, the Proud Boys, attended a school board meeting last week — with one Proud Boy member arguing with an…