Anyone who witnessed or recorded the incident is encouraged to contact Detective McGovern with the Sheriff’s Office.

The 1898 Wilmington massacre left dozens of Black North Carolinians dead. Conspirators also forced the city's multiracial ...

Happening Saturday night, it's the 8th annual Fiction to Fashion competition, a Project Runway-style fashion event that ...

At about 1 p.m. Tuesday, around 250 people were in line to vote at the Warwick Center on the campus of the University of North Carolina Wilmington ... since Oct. 19. The library was one of five early ...

She may have been the last witness of the events of 1898,” Leigh Carter said. READ MORE: ‘Violently erased’: PBS documentary ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Nearly a day after polls closed in North Carolina ... That can erode public trust in the election process alone,” said Barfield. This also could shake up the race for the New ...

Two of New Hanover County’s busiest sites for early voting were reporting slow turnout so far on Election Day. Sham Moore was ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT ... WECT is continuing to work to find out why New Hanover County was one of the last counties in North Carolina to report results.

A new documentary examining the history of Wilmington's 1898 coup that violently overthrew a multiracial local government ...

Courtesy of New Hanover County Public Library ... generally referred to as a “riot,” the events of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina are now more widely understood to have been a massacre ...