BEaches

If you’ve ever heard the song ‘Wind Beneath My Wings” (Gerald Levert and his father, Eddie, remade it some years back) you may have wondered where it came from. Well, for those of you born after 1990, you might not know that it’s the theme song from the 1988 movie Beaches starring Bette Midler and […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A shark bit a 68-year-old man several times Wednesday in waist-deep water off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, officials said, the seventh in a record-breaking year of shark attacks for the state’s coastal waters. A hospital spokeswoman had no report of his condition Wednesday afternoon. The man suffered wounds to his ribcage, […]

OAK ISLAND, N.C. (AP) — Two teenagers were seriously injured in two separate shark attacks in the same North Carolina town on Sunday, terrifying beach goers and prompting one shocked witness to compare the scene to the movie “Jaws.” Oak Island Mayor Betty Wallace told WECT-6 (http://bit.ly/1IdIpaN) that the first victim, a girl, lost part […]