Repair work is continuing on the former Leder Bros. department store in downtown Whiteville, where a brick facade threatened to collapse Wednesday. City Manager Darren Currie said the facade was noticed to be leaning Wednesday. [Read More]
Columbus County Transportation has been awarded a $280,000 federal grant. The N.C. Dept. of Transportation announced today (June 29) that Columbus will receive the grant to pay for improvements to the county transit facility. A [Read More]
Ronald Lee Cribbs has been identified as the victim in the June 20 shooting on Peacock Road. The Sheriff’s Office is investigating the case as a homicide. Cribbs, 68, was killed inside his home at [Read More]
An alleged case of teen sexploitation has landed a man in the county detention center. Granvel Eric Adams, 52, was held under a $10,000 secured bond on the single county of second degree sexual exploitation [Read More]
One man was shot in the head and another is jail after an incident Tuesday on Georgia Pacific Road. Deputies were called to contract Lumber in the 1900 block of Georgia Pacific Road just after [Read More]
The things I take for granted are things they never knew. I am writing these words in a comfortable, air conditioned office, despite the thermometer soaring to sinful levels. I had a good supper last [Read More]
Traffic on part of Madison Street in downtown Whiteville is being detoured to Lee due to “construction issues” on a building in the 700 block today (Wednesday). Vehicle traffic is being sent down Main Street [Read More]
Three men were injured Monday after a fourth individual allegedly assaulted them with a truck. Howard Alton Snowden, 65; Patrick Fax, 50; and Tracy Washington, 38, were working on a driveway in the 200 block [Read More]
Local leader Dewey Lewis Hill passed away today (Tuesday). Hill, 97, served ten terms in the state house, representing Columbus and Brunswick counties, from 1992 until 2012. As a young child he worked in his [Read More]
A woman who refused to leave the county Social Services office until she “got some electricity” was arrested after fighting with deputies Thursday. Teresa Michelle Troy, 42, of 2607 Tom Sessions Rd., was held under [Read More]
The man charged in two separate murders – one committed while he was out on bond – was assaulted by two other inmates in the county detention center June 22. Natrell McKinnis, 26, was transported [Read More]
Police are investigating a homicide in Whiteville. Major William Hinz of the Whiteville Police said the call went out around 2:30 Saturday afternoon. A white male was reported shot on Ward Street, off Martin Luther [Read More]
A Whiteville house went under the excavator Monday and Tuesday as part of the city’s flood hazard mitigation buyout program. The property at 705 S. Franklin Street was heavily damaged during Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, [Read More]
With an average of an inch of rain falling every day this week, resources are backing of the Pulp Road Fire in the Green Swamp Preserve. The almost 16,000 acre fire began as a controlled [Read More]
I knew and dreaded that flapping sound, and immediately began looking for a safe place to change a flat tire. It was hot, almost nastily so, and I gave up all hope of remaining respectable [Read More]
Columbus County Schools has named four new principals for the district. Herman Bland of Chadbourn Elementary, Christian Godwin of Columbus Career and College Academy, Kalee Hill of Hallsboro Artesia Elementary, and Kenneth Bowen of West [Read More]
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