The potential for high winds and some flooding has led both the city and county school systems to shift to a storm footing for Friday. Hurricane Helene is forecast to...
Johnathan Terrille Jordan will spend the next 10 to 23 years in prison on drug trafficking charges. Jordan, 36, was found guilty on two counts each of trafficking opioids and...
The N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles’ license plate agency (LPA) in Elizabethtown will close at 5 p.m. on Sept. 30 after the current operators announced their retirement. The current agency,...
Emily Sandlin has been charged with accessory in the May killing and disappearance of Shanna Perry. Sandlin, 46, is being held under $10,000 secured bond. She is charged with communicating...
Embattled candidate Mark Robinson said Monday he is not exiting his bid to become the state’s first black governor. Robinson, who was elected lieutenant governor in 2020, has come under...
The ex-wife of a murder suspect was arrested this morning and charged as an accessory in the murder of Shanna Perry, the pregnant Delco woman who vanished in May. Lance...
Lance Arrington Sandlin IV has been charged with murder of a woman who has been missing since May. Sandlin, 47, was arrested this evening and booked just before 8 p.m.,...
September 3, 1938 ~ September 17, 2024 (age 86) Wesley Jay Thurman, age 86 of Hallsboro N.C. A private memorial will be held at a later date. Union Funeral Home 571 West South...
December 28, 1970 ~ September 20, 2024 (age 53) Sherry Angela Blackman Bray, 53, of Whiteville, died on September 20, 2024, at her residence. Sherry was born on December 28, 1970. She is...
August 13, 1944 ~ September 22, 2024 (age 80) Mary Jo Fowler Small, 80, of Tabor City, went home to be with her Lord on Sunday, September 22, 2024 in the McLeod Seacoast...
April 14, 1939 ~ September 23, 2024 (age 85) Lillian Ward Cribb, age 85, died Monday, September 23, 2024 in Lower Cape Fear LifeCare, Whiteville, NC. Born April 14, 1939...
February 23, 1944 ~ September 20, 2024 (age 80) Agnes Pearlie Oliver Robinson, 80, of 745 West Burkhead Street, Whiteville, NC, died Friday, September 20, 2024, at Columbus Regional healthcare System....
October 3, 1941 ~ September 20, 2024 (age 82) Joseph Henry Lawless, Sr., age 82, of Whiteville, NC (formerly of Ocean Isle Beach, NC) passed away Friday, September 20, 2024,...
On this Edition of The Columbus Connection, Jefferson has in studio guests Morgan Hayes & Tyler Hodge of the Beaver Committee of Columbus County. The Columbus Connection is Brought...
Columbus County could soon be limiting the locations of vape and tobacco shops in unincorporated areas. Commissioners instructed County Manager Eddie Madden at the Sept. 3 meeting to research ways...
An Oak Island man was sentenced to 16 to 20 years in prison for beating and stabbing his girlfriend to death with a liquor bottle. Kevin Vaughn of Oak Island...