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The boat of a North Carolina man missing for seven months has washed ashore in the Azores Islands, thousands of miles from the marina where it was last seen, officials announced Monday. Joseph Matthew Johnson has not been found, but Carolina Beach police said that authorities in the Azores said...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - It was a normal Saturday night for Toni Dekine, until she got the phone call that changed her life. “I received a phone call that he had been hurt,” she says. “Not sure how hurt he was. So we jumped in the car. We went and picked up his grandmother and we went there as fast as we could. My baby was gone.”

The boat belonging to a missing man from North Carolina has washed ashore in Portugal, according to authorities. The Carolina Beach Police Department said it was contacted by authorities from São Jorge Island in Azores on Friday regarding a boat believed to belong to Joseph Matthew Johnson, 44, who was reported missing on Nov. 27, 2021.

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC (WWAY) — The Wrightsville Beach Police Department is investigating after a body was found in Banks Channel on Monday. According to a press release from the Wrightsville Beach Police Department, shortly before 5 p.m. Monday, officers with the Wrightsville Beach Police Department responded to a call for service in the 500 block of Waynick Blvd.

KINSTON, N.C. (WITN) - Chef Vivian Howard has launched Viv’s Fridge, a smart refrigerator that will offer prepared meals for families to enjoy at home. Howard is best known for her PBS show “A Chef’s Life,” in which she won an Emmy. WITN is told the...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Wilmington Police Department have arrested 25-year-old Malik Delquan Jones for the death of 20-year-old Jakai Dekine around South 11th Street near the Greenfield Street intersection. Dekine was found and pronounced dead in between two cars with a gunshot wound on Saturday, June 25. “We are...

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Wilmington Police have made an arrest in a homicide case that occurred over the weekend. 25-year-old Malik Delquan Jones is charged with First Degree Murder, Discharging a Firearm in an Enclosure, and Discharging Firearm in City Limits. He is currently being held without bond at...

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. (WECT) - A death investigation is under way after a body was recovered Monday from Banks Channel. According to the Wrightsville Beach Police Department, officers responded to a call in the 500 block of Waynick Blvd. just before 5 p.m. “The preliminary investigation that followed, resulted in...

A 25-year-old man was arrested and charged Tuesday in connection to a Saturday shooting that left one dead.  According to a news release from the Wilmington Police Department, Malik Delquan Jones faces several charges, including first-degree murder, in the death of 20-year-old Jakai Dekine. ...

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — Detectives with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Unit are asking for the community’s assistance in identifying individuals they say stole several items from an office early Sunday morning. Police say the pair broke into the Schumacher Homes office, located at...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Residents that rely on the Wilmington Housing Authority for weekly income are scrambling today. WHA announced it would be cutting weekly per diem payments in half for residents displaced from their homes. There has been an ongoing project to renovate WHA housing projects that have become un-livable due to mold and damage from previous hurricanes.

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The City of Wilmington is moving forward with plans to sell the 1.5-acre property located at 1110 Castle Street after numerous attempts to re-develop the property through public-private partnerships failed to produce a viable project. According to the City, staff have issued a request for...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The City of Wilmington is moving forward with plans to sell the former site of a WAVE Transit facility. City staff is seeking bids to have structures demolished on the 1.5-acre property located at 1110 Castle St. “Staff has issued a request for proposals solicitation for...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The City of Wilmington is working to address staffing shortages across the city, and while public safety applicants are on the rise, the city’s biggest need right now is in the community and public services areas. Employees like tree trimmers and other landscapers, parks and rec services, and people to fill in potholes and make repairs to sidewalks are the positions that are the most vacant.

Displaced residents have hit another setback: they'll be receiving less financial help from Wilmington Housing Authority from now on. WHA residents who are displaced to hotels and corporate apartments are given a per diem payment to help them manage increased food and transportation costs caused by the displacement. More than 150 families, including hundreds of children, have been displaced from their apartments and homes since last year because of a long-neglected mold crisis in the Wilmington Housing Authority.

The boat belonging to a retired U.S. Army Special Forces soldier from Carolina Beach who was first reported missing in November 2021 -- has been located.  According to a news release from the town of Carolina Beach, the vessel Joseph Johnson was last seen on washed ashore on an island near Portugal last week. ...

Joseph Matthew Johnson, 44, was last seen leaving a Carolina Beach marina in November. WRAL's Keenan Willard reports.June 28, 2022.