Brunswick County News

Promotional rendering showing the proposed layout of San Rio. Published: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 3:35 p.m. Property owners in Brunswick County are suing developers whose once-planned luxury subdivisions now sit mostly empty.

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:39 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:39 p.m. When the members of The Olive Branch Church meet tonight for their regular Thursday night mid-week service at their Leland church, they will do so without the church's founder, James T. Johnson.

Bob Grimes, principal at North Brunswick High School, is the 2009-2010 Principal of the Year for Brunswick County.

James Johnson faces three counts of indecent liberties with a child, two counts of first-degree sex offense with a child and one count of attempted first-degree rape of a child according to the sheriff's office.

Detectives with the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office are searching for four black males they say robbed four people at gunpoint at their Shallotte home.

It was a bad election night to be an incumbent mayor in Brunswick County this year - five mayors lost their attempts at re-election. Challengers in Oak Island, Southport, Boiling Spring Lakes, Belville and Bald Head Island were all winners at the polls.

Two winning candidates who participated in a North Carolina city's new voluntary public financing program say it helped them take their focus off money and put it on issues.

James Johnson faces three counts of indecent liberties with a child, two counts of first-degree sex offense with a child and one count of attempted first-degree rape of a child, according to the sheriff's office.

Tom Bagby, a former Brunswick County tax administrator, is a finalist for the same job in Alamance County.

Reece Simmons looks over Oak Island vote totals with mayor-elect Betty Wallace on Tuesday night.

The race for Oak Island Mayor tops the key races in Brunswick County. Incumbent Mayor Johnnie Vereen is running for re-election, but he's facing harsh criticism from newcomer Betty Wallace.

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 5:44 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 5:44 p.m. The H1N1 virus, the first flu pandemic in 41 years, is proving to be more virulent than the seasonal flu, but the majority of people getting sick still are only experiencing mild illness, local epidemiologists said Wednesday.

A North Carolina mayor has been stuck with the bill of more than $300,000 after an employee embezzled the money from a state license plate agency run by the mayor.

Regardless of who wins Tuesday's municipal election in Carolina Shores, there will those who feel the town has been saved from an unpleasant future.

Brunswick County has completed a $3.5 million expansion of the Department of Social Services building at the complex in Bolivia and a $2.4 million kitchen in the cafeteria is up and running , engineering director Jeff Phillips said.

A Brunswick County man died Friday afternoon as a result of a motorcycle crash. According to state troopers, 32-year-old Joseph Roger Cross of Supply was hit by the side of an SUV, and died at the scene.

Published: Friday, October 30, 2009 at 8:54 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 30, 2009 at 8:54 p.m. Here's how key races are shaping up in northern Brunswick County.

A Supply, N.C., man died this afternoon while on a motorcycle test-drive, according to Brunswick County Deputy Coroner David Crocker.

"Closer to Home" is the name of Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter's three-year capital campaign to raise $3.5 million for the construction of a seven-bed inpatient hospice care center for Brunswick County patients and families.

A Brunswick County woman died last week from complications of the H1N1 influenza.