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With its shallow inlets, North Carolina’s Outer Banks became a haven for many pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The most notable was the Pirate Blackbeard. Blackbeard called Bath, North Carolina, his home and spent his time as a pirate ransacking and pillaging unsuspecting ships off the banks of North Carolina. Before he was

The board of the Public Employees Retirement System of Idaho (PERSI) has selected Richelle Sugiyama to serve as chief investment officer, effective Oct. 1.

Famous Toastery, a 26-unit fast casual brand, has hired Jennifer Brule, a classically trained chef and nationally published food writer, to lead its culinary efforts. Brule has published two cookbooks, developed recipes for national magazines and is also the on-air…

Although the menus at Atomic Wings, Famous Toastery and Beef OBradys have little in common, their leaders are facing the same conundrum: How to raise prices to offset rising food costs without losing customers.

Blackbeard's name and image are synonymous with pirate lore, but many may not realize that his legacy is built around coastal Virginia and North Carolina's OBX.

Plus, hear from Robert Maynard, CEO of Famous Toastery, on inflation

Arrests by state and local police in the region.

I skipped last week’s column. Nothing I wrote seemed worth submitting. Here are some favorite quotes that amuse me and do seem worth it.

/PRNewswire/ -- The lifeguarded beach at Ocracoke, the barrier island famous for its Blackbeard connection, returns to the top of Dr. Beachs list of 10 Best...

The annual Blackbeard Pirate Festival is coming back to Hampton in June after being canceled for two years because of the pandemic.