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A local nonprofit aimed at helping children with grief seeks to expand services.

NEW HANOVER COUNTY — It was advertised as “a Negro Atlantic City.” Built by white developers in 1923 on a 70-acre strip of sand north of Wrightsville Beach, the Shell Island Resort was one of the first places where Blacks could go to enjoy the beach in the oppressive Jim Crow America.

Cops in Absecon say a man from Ocean County has been arrested following a hit-and-run accident last weekend that left two pedestrians injured.

Cops in Absecon say a man from Ocean County has been arrested following a hit-and-run accident last weekend that left two pedestrians injured.

NEW HANOVER COUNTY –– It was advertised as “a Negro Atlantic City.” Built by white developers in 1923 on a 70-acre strip of sand north of Wrightsville Beach…

WILMINGTON – Take a stroll through downtown Wilmington and youre bound to encounter history in every block. Even if you arent looking for it, the stories of the Cape Fear region stand out from the modernity of the ever-changing downtown district. Nowhere is this more true than on the front porch and lower level entrance of the Burgwin-Wright House, where striking sapphire-colored plaques are now fixed beside the doorways. The hard-to-miss blue plaques are the first debuted in a new initiati...