The recent string of shark attacks hadn’t completely deterred the Monroe native from playing in the waves at Carolina Beach Tuesday. But she was on high alert. “The deepest I’ve gone is up to my knees,” she said, reaching down…

North Carolina experienced its seventh shark attack in a month Wednesday, just as the coast prepared for one of its busiest weekends of the year. A 68-year-old man was bitten by a shark on Ocracoke Island around noon. Andrew Costello…

COLUMBIA, S.C. – An African-American church in South Carolina that was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan in 1995 caught fire again Tuesday night, though authorities said it was too soon to say what caused the latest blaze, which…

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How many shots would it take Rory McIlroy to hit a golf ball the 187-mile length of South Carolina’s coast? If the world’s No. 1-ranked golfer were to use his average distance off the tee for every shot (305.9 yards),…

Vacationers sit in chairs in the surf in Oak Island, N.C., on June 15. (Chuck Burton/AP) Nobody seems sure why there have been more than the usual number of shark attacks in the Carolinas this summer. But the simple fact…

Vacationers sit in chairs in the surf in Oak Island, N.C., on June 15. (Chuck Burton/AP) Nobody seems sure why there have been more than the usual number of shark attacks in the Carolinas this summer. But the simple fact…

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia’s top security official says 1,000 extra police are being deployed at tourist sites and beaches in the North African nation. Interior Minister Mohamed Najem Gharsalli made the announcement late Saturday. He said “we don’t want to…

By Jeff Hampton The Virginian-Pilot© June 29, 2015 HATTERAS VILLAGE, N.C. Plans for new exhibits on Outer Banks shipwrecks and the notorious pirate Blackbeard could be sunk because North Carolina lawmakers have shown little interest in paying for them with…

A North Carolina teen was bitten by a shark in the state’s popular Outer Banks just one day after another man was bitten, a series of attacks that have put authorities on alert and threatened to hurt the area’s tourism…