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CURRITUCK COUNTY | The North Carolina School of the Arts and local musicians will perform at 7 p.m. each Thursday on the south lawn of the Whalehead Club. Today, the school will bring Dixieland Beat with blues, jazz, rags and brass. A dmission is free. Concessions will be available, and leashed pets are welcome. Dare County arts school presents 'piper' The North Carolina School of the Arts will present "Take One Step - the New Pied Piper" at 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday and July 17 and...
By JEFF HAMPTON By Jeff Hampton The Virginian-Pilot Jarvisburg Two new elementary schools are set to open soon in Currituck County with some of the latest in technology and construction, including a front door full-body security camera and amplifiers for teachers' voices. The Shawboro school, which cost $16 million, is one of the largest facilities of its kind in the region at 93,000 square feet and a capacity for 700 students, said Bruce MacDonald, director of facilities planning for...
The Virginian-Pilot A man who was pulled from the surf Friday in Corolla has been identified. Efforts to revive Darrell Pepper, 64, of Brownsville, Pa., were unsuccessful after lifeguards pulled him from the ocean near the Pine Island neighborhood of Corolla, said Currituck County spokesman Randall Edwards. He was swimming when lifeguards saw him begin to struggle in the water about 2:40 p.m. At the time, officials did not release his identity. Drowning has not been determined as the...
CURRITUCK COUNTY | The seventh annual Arts Festival Under the Oaks will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday on the north lawn of The Whalehead Club. The event will include more than 100 artists displaying watercolors, clay, photography , haberdashery, wood and stained glass. Other events will include a silent auction, baked goods sale, food, actors from "The Lost Colony," a book signing by Norris Austin, and fun for the children with paper kite-making,...
By JEFF HAMPTON By Jeff Hampton The Virginian-Pilot From 1944 to 1965, Navy aircraft swooped low over the Currituck Sound with a mission to blast targets on the Currituck Outer Banks. Now the Army Corps of Engineers plans to clean up leftover unexploded ordnance lying where wild horses roam and near beaches where people swim and fish . Rockets, bombs and machine-gun ammunition lie within 182 acres in the Monkey Island Tract , part of the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge , about a mile...
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four of the five Americans killed when a U.S. security company's helicopter crashed in a dangerous Sunni neighborhood in central Baghdad were shot execution style in the back of the head, Iraqi and U.S. officials said Wednesday. A senior Iraqi military official said a machine gunner downed the helicopter, but a U.S. military official in Washington said there were no indications that the aircraft, owned by Blackwater USA, had been shot out of the sky. In...
By STEVEN R. HURST BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. security company helicopter crashed Tuesday as it flew over a dangerous Sunni neighborhood in the central Baghdad where insurgents and Iraqi security troops fought a prolonged gunbattle, and a U.S. official said five American civilians on board were killed. A senior Iraqi military official said the aircraft was shot down, but this was disputed by a U.S. military official in Washington. The Iraqi said the helicopter was hit by a machine gunner over...
By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An unprecedented lawsuit stemming from the gruesome killing of four American civilians in Iraq is slowly making its way through the U.S. legal system, closely watched by companies estimated to field up to 100,000 contractors alongside the U.S. military. Lawyers and military experts say the case highlights legal gray zones, a lack of regulation and little oversight of a booming global industry believed to bring in more than $150 billion...
