Kitty Hawk News

When Trudie Martin was born, the Wright brothers were still two years away from making their historic flight at Kitty Hawk.

KITTY HAWK, NC, November 4, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Dick Quible, Retired Founder of Quible & Associates, PC, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in consulting.

When Trudie Martin was born, the Wright brothers were still two years away from making their historic flight at Kitty Hawk.

With the holidays approaching, Americans are paying more for gasoline than they did last year.

The Henderson County Sheriff's Office hosted the N.C. Chapter of FBI National Academy Associates Fall Conference Friday at Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock.

Duck features a number of quaint shops and restaurants that overlook the Currituck Sound.

The 1st Judicial District Bar on Friday gave Gov. Bev Perdue three recommendations for a vacancy on the 1st District Court bench.

A new book chronicles the futile efforts of the Wright brothers to conduct their flights on the Outer Banks in secret in 1908, five years after they first took to the sky.

Published: Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 9, 2009 at 9:24 a.m. Most North Carolina schoolchildren still have to identify Dec.

About 1,400 Coast Guard employees and local citizens turned out at Museum of the Albemarle on Saturday for "Out of the Blue," an event to honor Coast Guard Aviation in Elizabeth City, according to Don Pendergraft, lead exhibit designer for MOA.

Gavin Mortimer's misguided new book adopts as its thesis the notion that by 1910, it was an open question whether dirigibles, balloons or airplanes would become the predominant mode of air travel.

Bessie Crump, 99, of Edmonson County, is all strapped in and prepared for takeoff before her first-ever airplane flight on Wednesday from Moore Field at the Glasgow Airport.

A few feet away sat a replica of a Wright brothers' plane, and 20 miles south was Huffman Prairie, the sacred ground where Wilbur and Orville Wright developed and perfected their airplanes.

A Virginia man was arrested while on vacation in Kitty Hawk, N.C., after being nabbed in an online prowler sting conducted by authorities in both Alamance County and Virginia, Sheriff's Department spokesman Randy Jones said.

In the dog days of summer 2008, an intern at IBM Research was sitting in a Manhattan caf turning a problem over in his head.

Above: Bicyclists prepare to leave the Dismal Swamp Welcome Center. staff photos by brett a. clarkSean Robey leads the pack as cyclist's leave from the Dismal Swamp Welcome Center, Saturday, during Camden County's Fall into Cycling 40-mile bicycle tour.

Come hear some bluegrass, watch a master blacksmith, eat some Henderson County barbecue and let the kids bounce and play games at Pickin' in the Park on Saturday evening.

An animal shelter on the Outer Banks says it happened Saturday, and a passing motorist managed to save the kitten as it was hanging onto the bridge's railing.

The sound of bluegrass music and the smell of country barbecue filled the air at Pickin' in the Park held at the Fletcher Community Park Saturday night.

Constructing a wind power plant off the coast of Southport may be technically feasible, as UNC-Wilmington professor John Bane says , but that doesn't necessarily mean it makes any sense.