Updated: Aug. 15, 2023 at 5:51 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office deputies are searching for Jace Evans as of Tuesday evening, according to the BCSO.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2023 at 8:50 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Steve Milligan purchased the $2,000,000 Riches ticket from the Gas Center on Market St.
Updated: May. 9, 2023 at 11:36 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff and Debra Worley
A family living in southeastern North Carolina had a surprise visitor at their home last month.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 7:34 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff and Debra Worley
There were no reported gas leaks, but there was some damage to the back of the tanker.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2022 at 1:39 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff and Emily Van de Riet
Three police officers in North Carolina were hospitalized for suspected secondary drug exposure on Sunday after encountering the same man.
Updated: Jun. 1, 2022 at 4:30 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff and Gray News Staff
A North Carolina lottery winner will now spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of murder.
Updated: May. 24, 2022 at 1:32 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff, Anna Austin Boyers and Gray News staff
A woman who runs a dog walking and boarding business is facing animal cruelty charges.
Updated: May. 21, 2022 at 12:59 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff and Jordan Gartner
A North Carolina man recently turned a $20 scratch-off ticket into a $2 million jackpot.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2022 at 5:48 PM EST
|By WECT Staff and Jordan Gartner
College student wins $100K prize playing lottery for first time
Updated: Feb. 25, 2022 at 9:28 AM EST
|By WECT Staff and Debra Worley
A disgraced former police chief in North Carolina was arrested in South Carolina after being at the forefront of a missing person search along the Lumber River.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2022 at 4:24 PM EST
|By WECT Staff and Andrew McMunn
After a 6-month long investigation, authorities in North Carolina say a mother and son have been charged with multiple drug-related trafficking charges.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2021 at 4:01 PM EST
|By WECT Staff
The decision to grant parole to one of two men convicted in the 1993 murder of Michael Jordan’s father has been rescinded.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2021 at 12:00 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff and Gray News staff
A spokeswoman with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office said that the bison is seven months old.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2021 at 11:29 AM EDT
|By Debra Worley and WECT Staff
Before finalizing the decision to bring this runt home, the little boy made sure to ask the kitten’s mom for permission. He wanted to make sure she would be okay with his family adopting her baby.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2021 at 8:43 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Janiya Davis was last seen around 8:45 p.m. Thursday on Saint Andrews Drive. She may be in the Houston Moore area.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2021 at 9:21 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Maigon Brooke Joyner was last spoken to on Tuesday, and may be staying at a local hotel in Wilmington.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 11:06 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Bhou Soutthivong, of Hickory, was pronounced dead around 11:30 a.m. on September 4.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2021 at 10:24 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Those found in violation can have their driver’s license revoked for one year.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2021 at 4:27 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff and Gray News staff
New Hanover High School students were taken to a nearby middle school after the shooting, said the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office representative.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2021 at 11:56 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
According the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office, a 15-year-old was taken into custody Monday afternoon.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2021 at 5:41 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
The mother, due in early September, was last seen with her daughter on Park Avenue in Wilmington.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2021 at 3:15 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff, WECT Staff and Debra Worley
Audrey Chavous of Winston-Salem won the third $1 million drawing in the state’s COVID-19 vaccination lottery.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2021 at 1:34 PM EDT
|By Debra Worley and WECT Staff
Deputies in North Carolina charged three people with animal cruelty after finding more than a dozen dogs living in horrible conditions.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2021 at 2:25 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
The North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro announced Friday that Tommo, a grizzly bear who has been at the zoo for over two decades, has passed away.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2021 at 5:41 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Young girl taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries
Updated: Jun. 9, 2021 at 5:07 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
A North Carolina man drowned while trying to save two children in the waters off Holden Beach Tuesday evening, according to officials.
Updated: Jun. 4, 2021 at 5:28 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Alphonso Scott III was last seen around noon Thursday on Turners Run.
Updated: Jun. 3, 2021 at 11:03 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
The Nao Santa Maria is coming to Wilmington from June 10-13 and will be open for self-guided tours.
Updated: Jun. 1, 2021 at 4:32 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
ccording to District Attorney Jon David, John Christian Marston was convicted on numerous charges including rape and sex offense.
Updated: May. 27, 2021 at 9:48 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
As the man attempted to carry the child away, the child’s mother was able to grab her child’s leg and prevent the abduction.
Updated: May. 17, 2021 at 11:14 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
The North Carolina Zoo on Monday announced the birth of three litters of critically endangered American red wolves.
Updated: May. 17, 2021 at 10:05 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Trump is a guest speaker for the North Carolina Republican Party’s 2021 State Convention.
Updated: May. 14, 2021 at 6:39 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Wilmington Police Department asked for help to locate a 17-year-old girl who has been missing since noon on Sunday, May 9.
Updated: May. 12, 2021 at 4:16 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
A sixth-grade math and science teacher at Leland Middle School has resigned after she was arrested Wednesday, accused of possessing nearly 25 pounds of marijuana.
Updated: May. 3, 2021 at 11:34 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
According to officials, Sara Williams Churchwell has been located in Los Angeles and is healthy and safe.
Updated: May. 3, 2021 at 9:51 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
The sheriff’s office says Sarah Elizabeth Williams, 16, and Mason Edward Huie, 16, have been found.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2021 at 5:20 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
A New Hanover County man is accused of beating his six-month-old puppy so severely it had to be euthanized, according to the sheriff’s office.
Updated: Apr. 24, 2021 at 6:49 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Last Seen in Castle Hayne on April 18
Updated: Apr. 20, 2021 at 2:14 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
A Wilmington man pleaded guilty to installing hidden video cameras in his bathroom to spy on children who were showering and changing clothes.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 at 1:11 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
A New Hanover County teacher died while trying to save two children caught in a rip current in the waters off Kure Beach Sunday evening.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 at 6:14 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
A Pender County couple was attacked in their driveway by a rabid bobcat earlier this week.
Updated: Apr. 16, 2021 at 12:50 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
The Wilmington Police Department is asking for the public’s help to locate a 16-year-old girl who has been missing for nearly two weeks.
Updated: Apr. 16, 2021 at 10:06 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
A South Carolina man is facing multiple child sex crime charges including trafficking two teenage girls following his arrest in Brunswick County.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2021 at 11:46 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services worked with the CDC and Wake County Public Health Department to investigate the limited number of cases where reactions were reported with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Updated: Apr. 7, 2021 at 7:18 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
According to a Facebook post from the WPD, 52-year-old Rhonda Jean Clemmons was last seen on April 2.
Updated: Mar. 26, 2021 at 11:07 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Columbus County investigators say a tornado drill at a local elementary school helped reveal alleged child abuse.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 5:55 PM EST
|By WECT Staff
Aubrey McFarland, the four-year-old Brunswick County girl who was allegedly abducted by her father on Wednesday, has been found safe
Updated: Feb. 4, 2021 at 10:53 AM EST
|By WECT Staff
A Wilmington man accused of seriously injuring his ex-girlfriend with a machete has been charged.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2021 at 1:10 PM EST
|By WECT Staff
After an unlucky start to the day, a Leland man managed to turn things around after realizing his Mega Millions ticket netted him $2 million.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2021 at 4:00 PM EST
|By WECT Staff
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) have recovered a grenade sold at a Shallotte thrift store last year in neighboring Horry County, South Carolina.