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Today's News

  • Gore looks back as DA; looks forward to retirement

    Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part feature series about outgoing district attorney Rex Gore.

    BOLIVIA—Like most careers, former district attorney Rex Gore’s career as the district’s top prosecutor had its ups and its downs.

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  • West Brunswick senior directs play as part of his senior project

    West Brunswick High School students are in final preparation for “Time of Your Life,” an original play written and directed by West Brunswick student Dustin Rogers.

    Rogers is producing the play as part of his senior project—the importance of fine arts in schools.

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  • Lakewood Estates incident under investigation

    Brunswick County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating an alleged New Year’s Day assault in the Lakewood Estates neighborhood near Ocean Isle Beach.

    According to a Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office incident report, assault inflicting serious injury was reported on Lakewood Drive around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 1.

    The report states “subjects dragged victim 1 out of vehicle and assaulted him.”

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  • Ocean Isle Beach Police Department

    The Ocean Isle Beach Police Department investigated the following incidents last week. All information is taken directly from police incident reports.

    •Breaking and entering, larceny and property damage on Union Street; suspect kicked door under the house to gain entry and took three flat-screen TVs, fishing equipment, a cordless telephone and computer printer.

    •Breaking and entering and larceny on East Fourth Street; suspect entered garage and home and took fishing poles and nets, a deep dryer and tools.

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  • Brunswick County Sheriff's Office K-9 Roundup

    The K-9 enforcement team answers calls, conducts driver’s license checkpoints and assists with other agencies when K-9s are needed.

    From Dec. 27, 2010-Jan. 2, 2010, K-9 deputies answered 15 calls, wrote 11 citations and made 11 drug arrests.

    K-9 deputies charged the following suspects:

    •Robert W. Long, 62, of 5217 Project Road, Ash, was charged with possession of cocaine.

    •Louis Damone Knight, 35, of 21 Shady Loop Road, Bolivia, was charged with possession of one-half ounce or less of marijuana and assault on a female.

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  • Policy changes reflect state-mandated changes to personnel public records law

    BOLIVIA—Members of the Brunswick County Board of Education will need to update the school system’s policy manual to include state-mandated changes to personnel laws.

    Changes to House Bill 961, Session Law 2010-169, went into effect Oct. 1, and dictate additional information in employee personnel files that can be released to the public.

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  • Five-year-old undergoes nightly dialysis treatments while he waits for kidney transplant

    OCEAN ISLE BEACH—Rather than relying on the kidneys he was born with to function properly, Billy Lawson Jr. must undergo more than eight hours of dialysis each night.

    And he’s only 5 years old.

    Billy—who likes to be called Bill Bill—was diagnosed with Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) several months ago when his kidneys failed, his father Billy Lawson said.

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  • Leland woman still missing; teen returns home

    A Leland woman reported missing last week is still missing, Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Spokesperson Sgt. April Stanley said Tuesday.

    A teen also reported missing last week has returned home safely, Stanley said.

    Seventeen-year-old John Kevin Watts II of Supply was reported missing Dec. 29, but has since returned home safely, she said.

    Robin Michelle Mitchell, 38, of Leland, is still missing. Mitchell was reported missing Dec. 27, but was last seen in November.

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  • Brunswick County Board of Education meets next week

    The Brunswick County Board of Education has rescheduled its monthly meeting and will meet next Tuesday.

    The board, which usually meets the first Tuesday of the month, has rescheduled its January meeting for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 11, in the commissioners chambers at the David R. Sandifer Administration Building at the government complex in Bolivia.

    A copy of the meeting agenda can be found online at www.bcswan.net.

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  • DA David to host three swearing-in ceremonies across district

    Though he was sworn in Jan. 1, the first day of his term as district attorney for the 13th Prosecutorial District, Jon David will have three swearing-in ceremonies in the coming weeks—one in each of the counties that make up the 13th District.

    “I firmly believe this important office belongs to the entire community, not to an individual. As such, I am inviting the community to help celebrate our new administration,” David said.

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