Jon Evans
Anchor and Assistant News Director at WECT-TV (Wilmington, NC)
Host and producer at 1on1 Podcast
Anchor and Assistant News Director at WSFX-TV (Wilmington, NC)
Anchor/Assistant News Director for WECT-TV. Edward R. Murrow Award Winner. Podcast host. Husband. Dad. RT/MT does not mean I endorse your tweet!
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wect.com | Jon Evans
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The #2 seeded Laney High School softball team won a first-round game Tuesday night, but the top-seeded West Bladen baseball team was upset as the state playoffs got underway across North Carolina. According to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, the top-seeded Knights fell behind #32 St. Pauls 5-2 in the fifth inning of the Class 2A playoff game. West Bladen got one back in the sixth, but could not get even, dropping a 5-4 decision.
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wect.com | Jon Evans
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Dave Boliek is now more than 110 days into his term as North Carolina’s State Auditor. The former prosecutor and small business owner says he’s spent the first couple of months getting to know the people and processes of the office. “I was a little bit naive to think that when you get elected State Auditor, you come in and there’s a book of codes and maybe a computer terminal that hooks you to the state checkbook and you can see what where the money is,” he said.
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wect.com | Jon Evans
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Larry the Cable Guy is coming to Wilmington. The award-winning comedy legend will perform on Friday, April 25 at CFCC’s Wilson Center downtown. It’s one of about two dozen shows on the 2025 tour for Dan Whitney, who brought Larry to life about 30 years ago. He says the energy of performing live is still the same now as it was when he first started doing the act in the mid-1990s.
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wect.com | Jon Evans |Savannah Young
Former Ashley High School and North Carolina State women’s basketball star Saniya Rivers is one of 12 players invited to New York City to attend Monday night’s WNBA draft in-person.
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wect.com | Jon Evans
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - When college student Brownie Harris laid down on a street in Richmond, Virginia on the night of October 12, 1970, and took a picture of a police car with the word “oink” spray painted on its’ side, he had no idea it would be the genesis of his future career.
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