County Manager Eddie Madden and seven other senior members of county government are on the ground in Western North Carolina helping with hurricane relief efforts. County Manager Eddie Madden said in a...
A woman with strong local ties died Friday in Hurricane Helene’s flooding in the North Carolina mountains. Melissa Neisler Lawrence, 63, of King’s Mountain, was trying to help a neighbor during the fl...
Updated 2 p.m. Oct. 1 Hurricane Helene hadn’t even finished devastating western North Carolina Friday before local efforts were getting underway to help those hit by the storm. Multiple towns in 25 co...
On this Edition of The Columbus Connection, Jefferson has in studio guest Elizabeth Fontes, Business Relations Representative for the North Carolina Division of Employment and Independence for People ...
For the second week in a row, we’ve seen some rough weather in our area. Thankfully the rest of the weekend should be lovely, if a bit more like midsummer than early fall. Get outside and enjoy it. Ar...
Helene Update 2:40 p.m. 9/27 Columbus County has a tornado watch until 6 p.m. and there have been unconfirmed reports of tornadoes on the ground in several areas. Warnings have been issued in Brunswic...
Columbus County elections officials were removing ineligible voters well before the recent lawsuit against the state state elections board and increased calls for more oversight of the state board. Vo...
A busy convenience store in Whiteville has closed its doors due to crime in the area. Workers began emptying fuel tanks and packing up stock at the Speedway at 207 N. Powell Boulevard Monday. By edne...
Southeastern North Carolina is now under an enhanced risk for tornadoes as powerful Hurricane Helene heads for the Florida panhandle. The National Weather Service office in Wilmington in a 1 p.m. upda...
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 come ashore today as a powerful C...
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 heroin, plus possession o...
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, at 307 E. ...
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 threats an...
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 scrutiny since...
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 Arrington Sandlin IV, 47, was a...
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., according to the sheriff’s offi...