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145 Miles Per Hour winds. Gusts as far as 75. That eye has clouded up throughout the past hour or so. Speaking of eastern portion of cuba that later will be under the gun later today. Staying as a category 4 as it moves to the southern portions of the bahamas. Bahamas making a Close Encounter to florida. I will give you update in a moment. It continues very close to the coast of georgia, South Carolina and look at this. It could make landfall in the South Carolina North Carolina border. More inl...

More than 20 years after his passing, the contributions one man made to the city of Wilmington has been memorialized forever. The house Dr. Hubert Eaton lived in, 1406 Orange Street, is now a local Historic Landmark. 

A quick look at the man who many call "a giant" and how his impact is still seen today.

Fans of "Gone Girl" or "Girl on the Train" will find UNC Chapel Hill graduate Leah Konens novel "You Should Have Told Me" right up their alley.

A wealth of archival footage and a powerful thematic thread of political evolution give power to this sports documentary

Skip to main content Currently Reading Fish tanks in the bathrooms are just one of the quirks in this Diamond Heights home for sale Emily Landes FacebookTwitterEmail When you live in a home for 40 years, you can really make it your own. Thats exactly what Lenny Simpson did after buying 470 Beacon Street in the early 1980s. The Diamond Heights home has incredible east-facing views and Simpson wanted to capitalize on that so he added glass along most of the eastern wall of the property, with plen...

) (includes “The Campaign,” “The Massacre” and “The Aftermath”) With the help of seven renowned guests, the Unearthing 1898 series examines, dissects and faces the horrors of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre. Detailing the campaign that led a white supremacist mob to kill untold numbers of African-American residents, it is arguably the most important story in Wilmington’s history, not just for its bigoted savagery but also for the wide-reaching regression it brought to a city that fou...

Growing up in Illinois, surrounded by the presence of great teams like the Chicago Bears and Bulls, Wayne Jackson wanted to be a sports announcer.  Early in his career, with that goal in mind, he was working through the ranks at radio stations when he moved to North Carolina to take a job in Rocky Mount. Soon, the television station that would become WECT called with an offer -- and the chance to host a live 90-minute afternoon talk show.  Jackson had some concerns. “I told them I’d neve...

WILMINGTON – Thumb through any local historian’s personal library and you’re likely to find a dog-eared, well-worn copy of Beverly Tetterton’s book, “Wilmington: Lost but Not Forgotten.” A guide to the built history that defined Wilmington but fell victim to its progress and time, the book is an essential text on this region from its most essential historical voice of the last quarter century. As the former special collections librarian and chief of the New Hanover County Library’...