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Hampton Roads based TowneBank announced today that its Board of Directors on September 23, 2009 declared a cash dividend of $12.50 per share on its Series B Fixed-Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock.

Thanks to a $500,000 state grant, Corolla residents will soon have a trail for walking, jogging and biking.

Responding to complaints from beach residents about vacationers overcrowding roadways and driving recklessly, Currituck commissioners took steps this week to impose new restrictions on businesses that provide tours of off-road areas for tourists.

Tours of off-road areas of some parts of North Carolina's Outer Banks face the possibility of more regulations in Currituck County.

Unanimous opposition from Currituck's Board of Commissioners isn't going to prevent the local ABC board from expanding its Moyock liquor store operation next ot the county's Welcome Center.

Hampton Roads based TowneBank announced today its inclusion in the prestigious Sandler O'Neill and Partners "2009 Bank and Thrift Sm-All Stars" report.

Officials have determined that a Pittsburgh man whose body washed up on a North Carolina beach died from shark bites.

Shark bites have killed just four people in North Carolina since 1935, the latest a Pittsburgh man who was swimming off the coast in Corolla Saturday night.

The body of a man reported missing after he went for a swim off Corolla, N.C., washed up on the beach in Kill Devil Hills, according to police.

A Pittsburgh-area man who went for a late-night swim in the treacherous waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the Outer Banks is missing and presumed drowned, authorities in North Carolina said Monday.

A man reported missing early Sunday in Corolla was identified as Richard A. Snead, 60, of Pittsburgh, according to a Currituck County news release.

About 70 leatherback sea turtles began making their way to the Atlantic Ocean from an unusual nesting location - Carolina Beach in New Hanover County.

The Coast Guard and local agencies are searching for a 60-year-old man off Corolla Beach near the five-mile marker Sunday.

A man from Ross is missing off the Outer Banks in North Carolina coast and presumed drowned.

The Coast Guard and local agencies are searching for a 60-year-old man who went missing off Corolla Beach near the five-mile marker early Sunday.

With her grandparents seated on the front row, Katherine Bernstein led the assisted-living congregation in blessing the bread and grape juice symbolizing wine while another teen played the piano and a half-dozen other young people chanted Hebrew prayers for the Jewish sabbath service known as Shabbat.

Looking for pristine beaches, wild horses, fresh seafood? It's time to discover the islands off the coast of North Carolina Last year I conducted an interview in Frank Sinatra's old house in Las Vegas, the very place where the Rat Pack used to hang out while carousing in the hedonism capital of the world.

North Carolina's move back into toll roads and bridges is likely to bypass the mountains for the foreseeable future, the top employee of the agency in charge of the push says.

The Coast Guard was notified by Currituck Emergency Management coordinators that the missing 12-year-old child was found deceased this morning in Duck, N.C., three-quarter mile from the original search location.

Forecasters say Jimena has strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane off Mexico's southern Pacific coast.The National Hurricane Center says Jimena could intensify and become a major hurricane by Sunday.The hurricane was 285 miles southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, and 335 miles south-southeast of Manzanillo, Mexico.

US Coast Guard officials tell WAVY.com the body of a missing 12-year-old boy was found by a citizen walking along the beach Tuesday morning.

A Pearl River family is continuing its search for their 12-year-old son, who was swept away while body-boarding off the coast of North Carolina. Chance Cosgrove disappeared Friday morning while he and his father, Gregg, were riding their body boards in a 3 to 4 feet of water off the shore, near the town of Corolla on the Outer ...