Today's News

A knock at my front door could have changed my life—and, no, it wasn’t Ed McMahon or the Prize Patrol.

A couple of weeks ago, I was home in the late afternoon thinking about taking a nap, when my cat started to growl in my face. Now for my scaredy attack cat, Lil’ lil that could mean only one thing—stranger danger.

Every time someone approaches my front door, he jumps in my face and growls until he knows I know someone is lurking. He then runs and hides in the nearest closet or under the bed, but nonetheless, he is my little watchdog.

West Brunswick swept Dixon 9-7 in five innings and 16-3 in four innings in a Junior American Legion Baseball doubleheader June 21.

West took advantage of Dixon errors to get leads in each game.

In the first game, West scored two runs off three errors in a three-run second inning in taking a 4-0 lead.

In the third inning, Dylan Darguzas drove in two runs on a bases-loaded single, and that put West ahead 6-0. In the fourth, a bases-loaded single by Dustin Darguzas gave West an 8-3 lead.

BOLIVIA—MAS Properties, one of the many development companies owned by prominent local developer Mark Saunders, has sued Brunswick County.

The lawsuit, filed June 8 in Brunswick County Superior Court, names MAS Properties and Squire’s CG, LLC, as plaintiffs in the suit against Brunswick County over a water line easement.

According to the lawsuit, MAS Properties purchased 20.24 acres that fronted the Intracoastal Waterway in 2006. In 2008, that 20-acre parcel was conveyed to Squire’s.

RALEIGH—Five Democrats crossed party lines last week to join Republicans as they voted to override N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue’s budget veto.

On Sunday, June 12, the first-term Democrat governor vetoed the GOP-led budget, for the first time in the state’s history.

In her veto announcement, Perdue accused the legislature of “turning its back on our schools, our children, our longstanding investments in education and our future economic prospects.”