Two of the handguns stolen during a Whiteville break-in last year were recovered last week, according to Whiteville Police. Lt. Andre Jackson said one handgun was found when WPD and Alcohol Law Enforc...
Diane Pratt Soles lost her home to fire on Aug. 3, but her best friend and fellow classmates from Whiteville High stepped up Saturday to help her get a fresh start. Like many in Southeastern North Car...
A man and woman were arrested on multiple fraud charges last week, according to the sheriff’s office. Ryan Anthony Rabon and Christy Cribb Hilbourn were arrested after they allegedly...
A Gillard Road woman was jailed Wednesday on multiple narcotics charges, according to the sheriff’s office. Complaints from the community led the sheriff’s office to conduct surveillance on Jacq...
A police chase in Chadbourn ended in drug charges during the early morning hours of Aug. 22. Davin Jan-Michael Zimmerman, 46, of Durham and New Jersey, was held under $25,000 secured bond, according t...
Sen. Danny Britt is among the North Carolina legislators supporting additional funding for the Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) Grant program in the September session. Legisla...
After a student tested positive for COVID-19 at Whiteville High School last week, 13 others WHS students are in a precautionary quarantine. Dr. Marc Whichard, superintendent for the city school system...
UPDATED 2 p.m. Handgun was stolen in Whiteville store heist last year. Three suspects, a handgun stolen from a local store and a “significant” quantity of drugs were seized by Whiteville Police and Al...
Two containers of a substance believed to be marijuana and a firearm sent a Tabor City man to jail Wednesday. Zachary Dashad Green, 22, of 120 Jamaica Queen Lane, Tabor City, was jailed under a $32,50...
One more person has died from COVID-19 in Columbus County, bringing the death toll to 51. The report released by the county Health Department (today) Thursday said that Columbus has confirmed 1,090 ca...
A combined effort by Columbus and Bladen county investigators led to the arrest of three narcotics suspects Thursday (today). Deputies executed a search warrant on two residences on Booker T. Washingt...
McPherson was in jail for his role in an assault on a woman and her three-legged dog. A prisoner at the Columbus County detention Center has been charged with two counts of interfering with a jail spr...
The routine search of a prison employee heading to work turned up a bag of tobacco Aug. 20, according to the Columbus County sheriff’s office. juJuan Lowell Lambert, 33, was arrested for possession of...
An Elizabethtown with roots in Columbus lost her home to fire Aug. 3 is getting some help from her high school class mates. Diane Pratt Soles lost power in her home near the Elizabethtown Highway Patr...
Every pay period, (based on a two-week pay period) we are suggesting items to pick up for your emergency kit in the event of a hurricane. By now you should have your water-tight tote. As we go further...
An apparent roommate of a Durham man found dead in the Cape Fear River has been arrested for the killing. Jim Robert Goins, 41, was arrested in Wake County by U.S. Marshals and Bladen County Sheriff’s...