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Find out what's going on in your town. en-us ASH, N.C. | The U.S. Coast Guard will hold formal public hearings Wednesday-Friday at the New Hanover, N.C., County Courthouse on an Ocean Isle Beach parasail accident that took the lives of two women late last month, Petty Officer Mark Jones of the Coast Guard's 5th... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6728909/coast-guard-sets-hearings-on-parasail-accident Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:58:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | The U.S. Coast Guard will hold formal public hearings Wednesday-Friday at the New Hanover, N.C., County Courthouse on an Ocean Isle Beach parasail accident that took the lives of two women late last month, Petty Officer Mark Jones of the Coast Guard's 5th... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6728932/coast-guard-sets-hearings-on-parasail-accident Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:58:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | Brunswick County District Attorney Rex Gore has cleared Brunswick County sheriff's Deputy Bradley Hardee in a fatal shooting Sept. 6. Deputy Hardee fatally shot Alton Lawrence Walters when Walters resisted the officer's attempt to arrest him for assault.... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6728933/brunswick-deputy-cleared-in-fatal-shooting Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:22:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | A call is going out for supporters of longtime Brunswick County schools central office employee Sherry Dove to mass at Tuesday night's meeting of the Brunswick school board. Dove has filed a lawsuit against the school board for not giving her due process... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6653433/dove-supporters-urged-to-attend-school-board-meeting Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:25:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | The Brunswick County Animal Shelter will resume adoptions Monday after clearing up its second bout with distemper this year, according to information from the shelter today. Adoptions were suspended each time distemper was discovered among the dogs at the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6548725/brunswick-animal-shelter-to-resume-adoptions Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:45:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | The N.C. State Bureau of Investigation is investigating an allegation a man has made that state Sen. R.C. Soles, D-Columbus, tried to touch him inappropriately when he was 15 years old, Brunswick County District Attorney Rex Gore said this morning.... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6548727/sbi-investigating-brunswick-s-senator Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:10:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | A U.S. Department of Justice investigator is expected to return to Brunswick County schools Wednesday to continue his look into allegations of racial-based treatment of students and employees, school board Chairwoman Shirley Babson said this morning.... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6481176/federal-investigator-to-return-to-brunswick-schools-wednesday Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:34:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | The Brunswick County Animal Shelter has suspended taking in new dogs after two already in the shelter were discovered to have distemper. The shelter had a distemper outbreak in late March that kept the it closed until May 5, and so far this time, two dogs... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6340279/brunswick-shelter-registers-distemper-once-again Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:27:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | The Brunswick County Health Department likely will offer tuberculosis tests to thousands of ex-prisoners of the Brunswick County Jail who were incarcerated during the same time as an inmate who tested positive for the disease last week, health department... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6282923/brunswick-to-offer-tb-tests-to-thousands-of-ex-prisoners Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:35:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | A Brunswick County Jail inmate who was found to have tuberculosis and was transferred to a medically-secure cell in Raleigh this week had been in the Brunswick facility for 8 months to 9 months, Brunswick County Manager Marty Lawing said this evening.... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6261750/tb-positive-inmate-had-been-in-jail-8-9-months Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:12:08 -0700 Police said an Ash, N.C., man confessed he shot to death an acquaintance Monday night in Little River then told officers where to find the victim's body. Thomas Edward Shipplett, 57, told officers in North Myrtle Beach that he shot and killed Dale McDuffie Hammond,... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6253474/man-admits-killing-to-police-in-myrtle-beach-area Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:30:08 -0700 Police say they learned about a man shot to death at a South Carolina vacation home after another man came to the station and confessed to the killing. Multiple media outlets reported 57-year-old Thomas Shipplett of Ash, N.C., turned himself into North Myrtle Beach... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6256513/nc-man-dead,-1-charged-in-sc-vacation-home-killing Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:21:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | The N.C. Department of Labor has issued five citations against two companies building the new bridge at Oak Island for an accident there in December that resulted in the death of one worker. The labor deaprtment issued one citation to Barnhill Contracting... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6034230/nc-labor-department-issues-citations-in-bridge-death Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:07:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | Brunswick County has declared the county's largest developer in default of development agreements and has filed attachments on the developer's bank accounts to collect $1.3 million in unpaid taxes. The county is moving to recover $11.4 million in bonds... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5936177/brunswick-county-moves-against-large-developer Wed, 20 May 2009 09:15:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | A fugitive from Brunswick County who was convicted of statutory rape and other crimes has been apprehended by authorities in Belize, Central America, and is being held awaiting extradition, according to the Brunswick County District Attorney's Office.... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5882629/brunswick-fugitive-caught-in-central-america Tue, 12 May 2009 10:09:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | A small fuel spill following a two-car accident on U.S. 17 at Waterford Plantation in Leland has temporarily closed the southbound lane of U.S. 17, Scott Garner, deputy director of Brunswick County Emergency Service, said late Friday afternoon. The... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5857775/small-fuel-spill-closes-southbound-17-in-northern-brunswick Fri, 08 May 2009 12:39:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | Two state senators from Mecklenburg County want counties rather than the state to maintain secondary roads, and the prospect has Brunswick County commissioners upset. The shift could cost the county millions of dollars, commissioners fear, and the only... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5799066/bill-would-shift-road-maintenance-to-counties Fri, 01 May 2009 09:14:08 -0700 ASH, N.C. | A bill to allow for permitting the construction of terminal groins cleared an N.C. Senate committee Wednesday morning and could get a vote from the full Senate next week, Ocean Isle Beach Mayor Debbie Smith reported from Raleigh. A similar bill cleared... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5777298/groin-bill-clears-senate-committee Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:57:08 -0700