Wilmington, NC News

Carrying a red flag bisected with a diagonal black bar - the flag of her native Trinidad and Tobago - Lisa Hamilton gazed and smiled at the people applauding as she and dozens of volunteers walked around the basketball court at Trask Coliseum Sunday. But the event wasn’t an off-season basketball game.

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Next month, after more than 45 years as a city firefighter, Brown, 67, is calling it quits, opting to take retirement incentives offered by the city, which faces a budget crisis.

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Wilmington | A woman accidentally knocked over a lit candle, causing a fire to break out Sunday afternoon in her apartment.The Wilmington Fire Department responded to the apartment fire in building 5022 of Colonial Parke Apartments on Hunt Club Road, off New Centre Drive, just after 4 p.m. Sunday.

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Bolivia | A fugitive who was apprehended in Belize, Central America, was brought back to Brunswick County and will be sentenced Monday morning for convictions of statutory rape, indecent liberties with a child and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

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Volunteers for the Topsail Humane Society plan to tell Pender County commissioners their concerns about a sergeant who was demoted for participating in rescuing animals from a farm in Hampstead.

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For Billy Joe “B.J.” Suttles and his wife, Laura Louise Westbrock, looking across their 40 acres of pasture fills them with emptiness and sadness.

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Another wreck.Another person not wearing a seat belt.Another death.That’s the way Bob High, a longtime reporter at the News-Reporter of Whiteville, in Columbus County, started an article last week. He’s written many - too many - stories like it recently.

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Intercity bus travel has taken off in the last few years. Now a new Web site makes it easier for riders to find their routes.

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Next month, after more than 45 years as a city firefighter, Brown, 67, is calling it quits, opting to take retirement incentives offered by the city, which faces a budget crisis.

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RALEIGH, N.C. | After a second straight lackluster showing at the polls, North Carolina GOP activists are looking for answers as they search for a new state Republican Party leader.

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