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Local news for the Shallotte area in Brunswick County, North Carolina
Packed in their trenches, soldiers of the 120th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. 30th Infantry Division awaited dawn's over-the-top signal to spearhead the allied assault. Their commander, Col.
SOURCE: Topix.com
A pair of bowling legends met in the finals of the PBA50 Storm Invitational that took place in Shallotte last weekend. Bowling hall of famers Walter Ray Williams Jr. and Norm Duke met in the championship showdown with Williams Jr. emerging victorious with a 259-237 win in the final match.
SOURCE: Topix.com
With a tropical storm warning, high surf advisory and flash flood warning in effect for the area, Brunswick County government offices will be closed Thursday, Oct. 11, due to Hurricane Michael, according to an announcement Wednesday from county spokeswoman Amanda Hutcheson. Brunswick County has issued a voluntary evacuation for those in low-lying and flood-prone areas.
SOURCE: Topix.com
Police in a coastal North Carolina town say a repairman won't face charges after he fatally shot a pet monkey that escaped and attacked a woman. A Shallotte police detective told The Charlotte Observer Friday evening that the snow monkey escaped a backyard cage and “went bananas,” biting the woman and scratching her arms and legs.
SOURCE: Topix.com
A Japanese macaque snow monkey that escaped its backyard cage Friday in Shallotte was killed in its neighborhood by a HVAC repairman after it attacked a woman Friday afternoon, Shallotte police Detective Sgt. John Holman said.
SOURCE: Topix.com
Police in a coastal North Carolina town say a repairman won't face charges after he fatally shot a pet monkey that escaped and attacked a woman. A Shallotte police detective told The Charlotte Observer Friday evening that the snow monkey escaped a backyard cage and “went bananas,” biting the woman and scratching her arms and legs.
SOURCE: Topix.com
A Japanese snow monkey was fatally shot after he escaped from an enclosure in his owner's backyard Friday afternoon. According to Sgt.
SOURCE: Topix.com
A Shallotte woman was one of two women who died in an Horry County Sheriff's Office transportation van that was trapped in floodwaters from the Little Pee Dee River caused by Hurricane Florence on Sept. 18. Wendy Newton, 45, of Shallotte and Nicolette Green, 43, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., died while deputies Stephen Flood and Joshua Bishop were taking them from Conway, S.C., to McLeod Darlington , a behavioral health facility, following involuntary commitments by physicians.
SOURCE: Topix.com
The Wilmington Fire Department quickly responded to a house fire in the 5400 block of Patricia Drive in Wilmington around 1 a.m. Thursday.
SOURCE: WECT 6 Wilmington
A 71-year-old woman in Bladenboro has survived a long list of tragedies, but the toll from Hurricane Florence has been the most difficult.
SOURCE: WECT 6 Wilmington