SOUTHPORT (AP) All police operations have been suspended in a North Carolina town in the aftermath of public corruption charges levied against its chief and an officer. Southport Mayor Jerry Dove tells WECT-TV that he and the city board last week asked ...

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SOUTHPORT (AP) The police chief of a coastal North Carolina city has been arrested following what authorities say was a “long-term investigation” by the FBI and State Bureau of Investigation. The Brunswick County District Attorney’s office announced Southport Police Chief ...

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BOLIVIA (AP) A North Carolina man who was beaten so badly as a toddler that he became deaf and blind has died, and prosecutors have charged a couple who already served more than a decade in prison for the crime ...

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In early 2006, Lionel Yow and two business partners borrowed $4.28 million from Regions Bank to develop a residential subdivision in Brunswick County to be known as Lighthouse Cove. Like so many dreams of that era, however, Lighthouse Cove wound up a victim of the financial crisis.

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As far as the federal government is concerned, Brunswick County remains part of South Carolina.

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The North Carolina Supreme Court says Brunswick County illegally increased the tax value of lots owned by a coastal development company in 2008.

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Rodriguez v. Rodriguez. (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-07-0409, 25 pp.) (Donna S. Stroud, J.) (Wanda G. Bryant, J., concurring in part & dissenting in part) Appealed from Brunswick County District Court. (Napoleon B. Barefoot Jr., J.) N.C. App. Click here for ...

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The Department of Transportation took 23 acres of the Sellerses’ family farm, which was located on U.S. 17 (the Ocean Highway) near Leland, for the construction of the Wilmington Bypass. As a part of the project, an elevated, controlled-access ramp ...

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State v. Bortone. (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-16-0188, 16 pp.) (Martha A. Geer, J.) Appealed from Brunswick County Superior Court. (Ola M. Lewis, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Click here for the full text of the opinion. Holding: Even though more than ...

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Southeast Brunswick Sanitary District v. City of Southport. Where plaintiff notified the defendant-city several times that plaintiff could not move forward on the parties' contract to expand plaintiff's sewage . . .

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