Deployed to war seven times, Ward is a veteran of Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Inherent Resolve. Ward serves as the Director of the Commander’s Action Group at Defense Logistics Agency Energy. ...

REV. DR. MARY BENJAMIN: HONORING THE LIFE OF A GREAT WOMAN ...

A born and bred Wilmingtonian, Deputy Chief Williams has been a member of the WPD for 26 years, starting in 1989 as a teenage summer youth worker. In an exclusive interview with The Wilmington Journal, Williams recalled growing up as a youth in one of the Port City’s public housing developments. ...

PHOTO BY JOHN DAVIS (L TO R) MR. DESMOND RADFORD, MISS RICKI ROBBINS, MR. DEVAUGHN SHEPARD , 2ND RUNNER UP MISS AYANA BRONNER, MR. CHRISTOPHER APISA , DEBUTANTE QUEEN MISS HELEN BARNETT, 1ST RUNNER UP MISS ZARIA ALLEN, MR. TREJAN HOUSER, MISS ANA WILLIAMS AND MR. JA’QUEL SIDBERRY ...

We at Brigade are so proud of all three of these teens and their accomplishments, and we even more excited for their “Great Futures.” As Brigade’s YOY, Josh will now compete at the state Youth of the Year competition in Durham on March 31st and April 1st. ...

  Anthony Ray is LINC 3rd Annual Milestones Dinner Keynote Speaker BY KIMBERLY COOK, PHD CONTRIBUTING WRITER “The sun does shine,” was one of the first things Anthony Ray Hinton said when he was exonerated from a wrongful conviction and death sentence in Alabama. He was incarcerated for 30 years fortwo murders he did not commit. During the time he was on death row, he rarely saw the outdoors, he did no ...

After five decades of serving children, parents, faculty, staff and the community at-large, Mrs. Jackson will be embarking on her newest chapter in life--retirement. ...

At the height of her career during the 1940s and 1950s, the honoree’s exceptional sewing was featured in a Vogue Magazine, ...

Private collections throughout the United States include Davis’ works. Hallie Berry, Denzel Washington, Jayne Kennedy, Bill Cosby, and Justice Henry Frye are notable owners of his paintings. ...

Despite the recent decision to protect the Atlantic Ocean from offshore drilling, seismic airgun blasting, an extremely loud and dangerous process used to search for oil and gas deposits deep below the ocean floor, is still being pursued in an area twice the size of California, stretching from Delaware to Florida. ...