Mara McJilton
Multimedia Journalist
Wilmington, N.C.
Mara joined the WECT team in May of 2021 as a multimedia journalist/reporter.
Mara grew up outside of Atlanta in Dunwoody, Georgia. She graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a B.S. in Agricultural Communications and a minor in Journalism & Electronic Media. While in college, Mara interned with WATE.
In her free time, she loves to spend time on the beach, with family and friends, cooking in the kitchen, or cheering on Pittsburgh sports teams!
Story idea? Email Mara at mara.mcjilton@wect.com, or you can find her on Facebook or Twitter.
Norris Baker started biking in Oregon several months ago and arrived in Sunset Beach this week to mark the end of his coast-to-coast ride.
No injuries have been reported.
A man was involved in a deadly shooting with police after reportedly going on a crime spree in the area.
Two families say their lives changed in just minutes after a trip to the beach turned deadly.
Kiscaden describes the scariest moment of her life--when her 19-month-old daughter, Josie, had stopped breathing and she didn’t know what was wrong.
It was a normal day when things took a turn for the worst after two people got caught in a rip current about 50 yards from the shore.
Thankfully for Enzor, the incident didn’t scare him but instead taught him a lesson for the next time he comes back to the beach.
He says that day is still a blur for him, but he knows all of the signs of a stroke were there, but at the time he didn’t know those were the signs of a stroke.
“I was happy,” Jyquavion said excitedly.
“I finally see like differences in my day-to-day life in a month of taking one simple little medication. And knowing that I wouldn’t be able to get it, or I would have to struggle to get it was difficult," Megan Engle said.
A home inspector in North Carolina uncovered more than just potential structural issues or code violations this week.
From cough, congestion, and itchy eyes, the body reacts to pollen that is all over our cars and even homes being filled.
"Waste was observed approximately 0.69 miles from the secondary containment on the facility. Waste in the creek appeared to be contained in the area by a beaver dam,” the release said.
According to the National Lightning Safety Council, this was the third lightning-related death in the United States this year.
This is the fourth drowning death in the area this year.
Parents are concerned after a group of Proud Boys showed up a children's library event.
