Shallotte News

A big facelift is happening in the weather community. The National Weather Service's radar in Shallotte is off-line right now for some major upgrades that are going to change the way we show you storms.

May 31, 2012 - GULF SHORES, Ala. - The 41st Annual National Shrimp Festival presented by Zatarain's is only four months away, and members of the festival committee have chosen Keith White as the winner of this year's poster contest.

Mary Magdalene Yuhasz, 99, of Calabash, N.C., formerly of Fredericksburg, ended her earthly journey and was carried away by angels on Friday, May 25, 2012, to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Brittney Jolisha Oxendine, of the 4000 block of Mapel Hill Road, was stopped for vision obstruction in the parking lot of the Scotchman on Highway 130, according to the Shallotte Police Department's arrest report.

Brunswick County authorities are looking for two people wanted in connection to breaking and entering cases as well as larcenies in the Ash and Shallotte areas, officials said Tuesday.

Mark Scharaga, former sushi chef at The Cattle Barn in Shallotte, is hard at work on a 'sushi and spoons' restaurant for Wilmington.

Beginning Tuesday, lanes will be closed intermittently from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.A for two weeks, according to a news release from the DOT.

When Ella Fitzgerald sings "Summertime and the livin' is easy" in a song that sounds like a molasses-slow summer day refreshed only by syrupy sweet tea, she is unaware of the pressures of preparing the perfectly grilled burger or chopping down the blades of grass that threaten to overtake the patio.

MYRTLE BEACH, SC The terminal expansion project will bring noticeable changes to travelers in the Myrtle Beach International Airport beginning on Monday.

One man is in jail and Brunswick County Sheriff's deputies are looking for another in connection with a shooting near Supply over the weekend.

Del Routh, spokesman for the BCSO, said deputies in the detective division with the assistance of the NC DMV license and theft bureau, Shallotte police and the Columbus County Sheriff's Office have disrupted a theft ring operating in the Ash area where a shop owner and two employees allegedly stole more than $30,000 in property.

Anthony Lamar Hill, of the 4000 block of Maple Hill Road, was charged with two counts of felony probation violation, resisting a public officer, possession with the intent to sell or deliver cocaine, and possession of marijuana up to half an ounce, according to the Brunswick County Jail's inmate bonding form.

Planners in Myrtle Beach are looking to expand their road projects north, as far as Shallotte, North Carolina.

The Brunswick County Sheriff's office says Ronnie Williams was last seen by his roommate leaving in a taxi cab from his home on Village Point Road in Shallotte.

WECT TV6-WECT.com:News, weather & sports Wilmington, NC Man pleads guilty to first-degree rape involving 6-year-old BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC According to a spokesperson for District Attorney Jon David, a man has pleaded guilty to rape involving a 6-year-old from Shallotte in 2010.

The oyster business doesn't return the profits it once did in North Carolina, so Lloyd Milliken transformed his Lloyd's Oyster House in Shallotte on the North Carolina coast into a processor of scallops.