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HTML

<div class="the_notice">
    <span class="time"> | 3:48pm</span>
    To <strong>2013-03-16_10-56-33</strong> By <strong>XYX</strong>
</div>

CSS

.wrap { background-color: yellow; }

JavaScript

$('div').contents().slice(2).wrapAll('<div class="wrap"/>');