Dixon washed ashore sometime in the past few days, somewhere north of here, sick and stunned by cold water. Ocean temperatures had dropped quickly in the past few days, giving sea turtles no time to obey their instinctual cues and swim for warmer seas.

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Policies and procedures in place the night Peyton Strickland was shot to death through a front door by a New Hanover County Sheriff’s emergency response team member did not cause his death, the sheriff said. That doesn’t mean the procedures couldn’t benefit from some changes.

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It’s cold and the grass is turning brown, so Dee Smith decided it was as good a time as any to have the plumber dig up her yard.

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Beginning at 9 a.m. Monday, N.C. 179 at Jinny’s Branch will be closed to traffic until mid-May as the N.C. Department of Transportation constructs a new bridge on the route between Shallotte and Ocean Isle Beach.

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Myia Shepard was killed Wednesday in a traffic accident on Cape Fear Memorial Bridge. She was six months pregnant with her fourth child, a girl tentatively named Amira Elizabeth, according to her mother, Sandra Jennings.

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RALEIGH | Former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Bill Cowher will deliver the fall commencement address at North Carolina State University, his alma mater.<br>The ceremony is scheduled for Dec. 17 at the RBC Center in Raleigh.

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A robbery outside the Malpass General Store in Currie Wednesday night could be related to the beating of an elderly Rocky Point store owner earlier in the week, according to the Pender County Sheriff’s Office.

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U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre’s office on Thursday afternoon announced that $2.5 million has been secured for maintenance dredging of the Intracoastal Waterway.<br>The federal funds were included in the recently passed Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act of 2009.

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Southport’s fire department is getting too big for its decades-old building. <br>Bright red firetrucks sit squeezed tightly in a three-bay garage attached to a structure Fire Chief Greg Cumbee calls inadequate.

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Wilmington’s first Tampa Bay-bound commercial flight took off on time Thursday morning, but with fewer than half of its seats full.

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