Updated: Jan. 13, 2023 at 12:28 PM EST
|By WECT Staff
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported two tragic North Atlantic right whale incidents that occurred off of the North Carolina coast in the same week.
Updated: Jan. 2, 2023 at 1:06 PM EST
|By WECT Staff
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that ZLINE has recalled approximately 28,000 gas ranges over carbon monoxide emission risks.
Updated: Dec. 7, 2022 at 7:23 AM EST
|By WECT Staff
Oak Island beach goers had the chance to see a “hovering” shrimp boat on the water.
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. 17, 2022 at 10:54 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Video shows Skywatch Bird Rescue freeing a pelican which had been stuck in a tree for hours.
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: Jan. 15, 2022 at 5:01 PM EST
|By WECT Staff
A Hampstead man is in custody after allegedly shooting and killing his own mother, sister, and son in Wilmington Saturday.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2021 at 12:14 PM EST
|By WECT Staff
A woman was arrested on several drugs charges after authorities received an anonymous tip she was preparing to smoke marijuana during a Facebook Live.
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: Oct. 7, 2021 at 3:42 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
The N.C. Center for Missing Persons on Thursday issued a Silver Alert for a missing Bladen County man who is considered endangered.
Updated: Oct. 2, 2021 at 8:38 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Aloni Wade, who is 15 years old, was last seen in Bladenboro on September 23
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. 16, 2021 at 5:00 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Law enforcement officials arrested seven people, and confiscated two kilograms of cocaine, 20,000 bags of heroin, $180,000 in cash, and multiple firearms as part of a large-scale, multi-agency drug bust in southeastern North Carolina.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2021 at 10:23 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
The squat, much like its name implies, is where the front of a truck is raised and the rear lowered, giving a truck a “squatted” look.
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. 9, 2021 at 4:02 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
22-year-old Austin Jones was arrested following the incident at the intersection of Front and Orange Street.
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. 5, 2021 at 4:20 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
The 47-year-old male fell overboard around 12:15 p.m. and was treading water for about an hour before he was rescued
Updated: Jun. 27, 2021 at 5:41 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Young girl taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries
Updated: Jun. 18, 2021 at 2:42 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
A North Carolina firefighter caught on video pointing a gun at a driver while at the scene of a traffic accident is now facing charges in connection with the incident, the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office announced.
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. 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.
UPDATE: Brunswick County jail releases suspect who allegedly tried to abduct a child at N.C. Walmart
Updated: May. 28, 2021 at 10:31 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
The Leland Police Department released video that it says shows the attempted abduction of a child Wednesday at the Walmart in Leland.
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. 22, 2021 at 4:27 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Greensboro Police Department is searching for a missing 5-month-old child.
Updated: May. 19, 2021 at 11:54 PM EDT
|By WECT Staff
A 911 call captured the frantic moments after a 17-year-old Brunswick County girl was hit and killed on a busy Wilmington roadway; shortly after the collision, the accused driver allegedly robbed the caller.
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. 11, 2021 at 7:40 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Experts say if everyone is filling up on gas, it will only drive prices up and cause outages to last longer.
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. 29, 2021 at 6:19 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
The pilot of a Duke Energy helicopter was killed Wednesday when the aircraft went down in a wooded area while surveying power lines, officials said.
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. 20, 2021 at 9:12 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Former Chadbourn Police Chief Anthony Spivey was arrested Monday by special agents with the State Bureau of Investigation
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. 16, 2021 at 6:46 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
Some of the turtles had been with the Surf City-based facility since December.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2021 at 11:00 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff
The U.S Coast Guard says one person is dead from a construction accident at the old Bonner Bridge on the Outer Banks Wednesday afternoon.
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 11:21 AM EDT
|By WECT Staff and Kassie Simmons
A recently released 911 call reveals the chaotic moments after a massive fire broke out at a condominium complex in Carolina Beach last Friday.
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.
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