Voters will cast ballots for or against a constitutional amendment that would allow a person accused of a felony to waive his or her right to a jury trial, taking the case before a judge instead. North Carolina is the only state in the nation that doesn’t allow defendants to forgo jury trials, according to the UNC School of Government .
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If you’ve got a hankering for fish, be sure to catch the Pleasure Island Seafood, Blues and Jazz Festival at the Fort Fisher Air Force Recreation Area in Kure Beach. In addition to killer tunes from headliners Robert Cray Band on Saturday and Delbert McClinton on Sunday, vendors will pack the grounds with dishes like crab cakes, fried flounder, clam chowder and more.
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A Shallotte man was arrested after allegedly filing a false claim in an effort to be compensated for damage previously done to his vehicle. Department of Insurance criminal investigators say that on August 15 Christopher Eric Grissett, 41, purchased a used vehicle with body damage, then filed a claim four days later with the National General Insurance Company for an alleged deer collision.
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A monument sign at the entrance into the 700-acre San Rio Ocean & River Club in Shallotte that has been stalled since construction stopped in 2009. A new investor has emerged for the dormant, 700-acre San Rio Ocean & River Club in Shallotte, one of the many North Carolina coastal communities that stalled in development when the global financial crisis hit in 2008.
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Hip Pocket “doesn’t play a lot of anything, but a little bit of everything,” said band manager Alan Brantley. “We don’t just play country or rock.
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A Brunswick County man will be sentenced in November after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and felony child abuse in the death of his four-month-old son. The Brunswick County District Attorney’s Office announced to local media outlets Monday that 20-year-old Randy Richardson of Shallotte confessed to shaking Colton Richardson on May 28 of last year.
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A Shallotte man pleaded guilty in Brunswick County Superior Court on Monday, Sept. 21, to second-degree murder in the 2013 death of his infant son.
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An alleged drunk driver faces several criminal charges after he reportedly hit a moped driver causing very serious injuries in Brunswick County. Officials with the State Highway Patrol are investigating the crash that happened just outside of Shallotte on Saturday night.
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This morning at about 8:45, my girlfriend Brittny Roller dropped off a ceramic mask at the Cameron Art Museum’s “State of the Art/Art of the State,” an event in which artists from all over North Carolina have 24 hours, from noon yesterday to noon today, to bring one work of art to the CAM to hang in an exhibition through Feb. 12, and to meet one of four curators visiting from renown museums across the country. That means, with 2.5 hours left, this year’s “State of the Art/Art of the State” has a very good chance of receiving more artworks than the 2011 incarnation, in which 614 artists showed up in droves to have their artwork featured in a museum.
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Shallotte Police are investigating a robbery at the First Community Bank located at the intersection of Main Street and Whiteville Road. Chief Gause with the Shallotte Police Department said they weren’t sure if the suspect had a weapon or not, or how much money the suspect actually got away with.
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