Blackbeard’s reputation didn’t happen by accident, and it wasn’t built on nonstop bloodshed the way movies love to suggest.

Throughout its run, Netlix’s hit “Outer Banks” series has made no shortage of references to real North Carolina places, people and things. It perhaps was only a matter of time, then, that the popular ...

On Friday, January 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a ruling in Allen v. Stein that likely ends a ...

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise got a big shot in the arm with the addition of Ian McShane as the dreaded pirate Blackbeard. Few do "evil villain" like McShane, who has honed his monstrosity ...