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You have to watch the video closely...but you just might see Michael Jackson's ghost! 104.1 WTQR's Jeff Roper plays the video.

Published: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 4:46 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 4:46 p.m. Pender County schools on May 1 became clients of a new Web-based Wilmington company that bills itself as an innovative approach to school fundraising.

Jet-powered, Raleigh-based businessman William Wise snagged gold and diamonds, a quarter-million-dollar wine collection, a private plane, luxury SUVs and millions in cash thanks to investors' faith and deposits in Wise's now-failed Caribbean bank.

Published: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 11:34 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 11:34 a.m. Belt tightening by Pender County in its proposed 2009-10 budget includes $457,000 less for the school system, a prospect a school official calls 'disastrous' in light of expected state funding cuts.

The N.C. Department of Transportation is holding a series of outreach meetings throughout the state to inform Disadvantaged Business Enterprises of contracting opportunities in transportation and on projects funded with monies from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Additional details released Wednesday about a planned hospital in Hillsborough indicate UNC Health Care wants to build a 68-bed facility that would include a level 2 trauma center.

UNC Health Care , suffering from growing losses for uncompensated care, is going to start seeking co-payments from patients qualifying for charity care and requiring deposits from uninsured patients.

As he walked across N.C. State University's campus Wednesday morning, freshman Will Norville, head down, also read that day's print edition of the school paper, the Technician.

Federal regulators said Monday that they are out to get back the $12 million that Raleigh resident William Wise personally took from investments in an $80 million Ponzi scheme.

Re: At least it's getting warmer out... Submitted by Robert Pody on Fri, 2009-03-27 15:36. Yes, that's good to see... except the 100% chance of rain.

" As Gates County continues to battle plans by the Navy to build an Outlying Landing Field in the Sand Banks area, those in opposition were offered some key advice here Saturday morning.

How do you describe your art? In general, I would describe it as representational-impressionism, with the landscape being my primary subject.

N.C. Gov.-elect Bev Perdue announced three more members of her Cabinet on Monday.

With North Carolina's need for roads expanding -- and money to build them dwindling -- Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue on Monday named a veteran administrator to overhaul the state's transportation system.

Sen. Basnight Gave Tiger Maple For Table For Season's Hand-Made Christmas Gift RALEIGH - Gov.

Charlotte's proposed regional medical school campus is on hold for now because of a projected decline in state revenues.

Local health-care educators and employers said yesterday that attracting students as early as possible - even in kindergarten - will play a key role in easing a shortage of employees.