Local, state and federal authorities worked together to arrest a Riegelwood man accused of sending nude photographs to an eight year old girl. Alberto Leon, 29, is being held under a $50,000 cash bond on [Read More]
Gov. Roy Cooper extended the ‘modified’ Phase 3 COVID lockdown to Nov. 13. Meanwhile 36 counties have been told to do more to control the spread of the novel corona virus. Cooper made the comments [Read More]
Editor’s note — we’re pleased to welcome Katie Compton Boyd to Columbuscountynews.com. Katie is the owner and operator of Old South Tour Company in Southport. Rather than tell you about her, we’ll let Katie describe [Read More]
Two conversations with dear friends got me to thinking the other day about what things will be like when “this is all over.” Whether “this” is the pandemic, the quarantine, the civil unrest, the safety [Read More]
Whiteville officials want to know what residents and business owners think will help downtown grow and become more attractive.The city will be holding the first public meeting for the downtown streetscape master plan Tuesday evening [Read More]
A high speed chase started in Whiteville and ended with a manhunt in the Mount Olive community Sunday. Stewart Thomas Luck, 46, is being held under more than $1 million secured bond on charges ranging [Read More]
Candy, cigarettes, laundry detergent, even laundry hampers were among the things allegedly stolen by a Bladenboro man during a string of break-ins at area stores, according to the sheriff’s office. Coleman Dean Johnson, 41, of [Read More]
Deputies arrested an Horry County woman and recovered two handguns, brass knuckles and an ATV after a chase back and forth across the state line Tuesday. Samantha Elizabeth Kirsch faces charges of felony fleeing to [Read More]
Technology helped defeat a statue thief who hit the same home twice, but the yard decorations are now back where they belong, thanks to a detective. Frank M. Phillips of 2421 Willoughby Rd., Tabor City, [Read More]
Update: 3:30 p.m. Oct. 16. The Highway Patrol has identified the two men killed in a single vehicle wreck near the Columbus-Brunswick line Thursday morning. Juan Perez, 21, of Woodland and Kevin Ramirez, 21, of Falcon, [Read More]
Columbus County reported 34 new cases but no new fatalities in Thursday’s COVID-19 pandemic report. The Health Department said that since the pandemic began in March, 1,562 total cases have been confirmed here, with 1,276 [Read More]
Uniformed law enforcement officers won’t be stationed at polls during the early election or on Nov. 3, but they will be on standby if needed. A memo from the state Board of Elections to [Read More]
The sheriff’s office has identified David Kadeem Hemingway, 28, as the man killed in the Oct. 5 shooting near Tabor City. Hemingway and two other men were shot on Memory Lane just after 11 p.m., [Read More]
Early voting for the Nov. 2 general election gets underway Thursday at five different sites in Columbus County. Early polls will be open at the county Board of Elections office, Chadbourn Town Hall, Fair [Read More]
The suspect in a 1995 Wilmington rape case has been arrested after DNA evidence tied him to the crime. The man is reportedly serving time for robberies in Columbus county. Wilmington Police said that Freddy [Read More]
If it were a holiday special, it would be called How The Pandemic Stole Christmas. Town commissioners in Lake Waccamaw Tuesday voted not to have the town’s Christmas Parade this year, and to decide in [Read More]
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