BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – If you’re a big baseball fan, you won’t want to miss East and West Bladen High School’s last varsity games of the season – the schools play against each other Friday, May 3, according to the schools’ websites.

The game will take place at West Bladen at 6 p.m.

West Bladen High is located at 1600 N. Carolina 410 in Bladenboro.

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BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – The Praying for Crystal Abbott Coffman Foundation is hosting a 5k event in May to help raise money to support Coffmann.

According to the foundation, Coffman suffered a severe spinal cord injury last year while heading to her home in Leland. She swerved to avoid a deer that jumped out in front of her vehicle, ran off the road, and lost control.

The 5k for Crystal: Run, Walk, and Roll (wheelchairs) event will be held at the Industrial Park in Elizabethtown on May 11, 2013 starting at 9:30 a.m.

Pre-registration is underway for participants for the event.

BLADEN COUNTY, NC (WECT) – Houston, we have liftoff! Elizabethtown native and astronaut Curt Brown will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. The ceremony will take place on Saturday at the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex.

Brown will be joined by Eileen Collins and Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., the first time two females have been inducted at the same time.