Updated 5 p.m. Seven people were jailed Tuesday after county drug agents raided a home less than a block from the Whiteville city hall complex. The raid Tuesday evening turned up cocaine, crack, marijuana, heroin, [Read More]
As much as I love autumn and winter, and tolerate summer, spring is likely my favorite season. It comes after the end of the misery of February, which I famously loathe. Temperatures warm up, but [Read More]
N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Executive Director Cameron Ingram announced today that he has invoked Emergency Powers to activate a localized response plan to assist with the detection and isolation of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Yadkin and [Read More]
Unconventional warfare is coming to Columbus County. Robin Sage, the “final exam” for U.S. Army Special Forces personnel, begins Friday. Green Beret candidates will work with “insurgents” in the fictional country of Pineland, which includes [Read More]
Deputies arrested a Red Store Road woman April 9 after she allegedly charged them while completely naked. Elisha Shamae Colson, 37, was charged with assault on a government official, property damage and indecent exposure in [Read More]
Music, dance and the visual arts will be front and center Thursday (April 14) at the first Classical Charter Schools of America-Whiteville Performing Arts Show. “We are excited to provide this opportunity for our students [Read More]
A mechanic was killed Friday at his home in Old Dock, and his fiancé has been charged with second degree murder. Jennifer Crafford Scurdato, 38, is being held under no bond in the Columbus Detention [Read More]
A man wanted in Arizona is being held under $1.2 million bond after a raid near Clarkton. Wade Anthony Garcia, also known as Donovan Davis, is being held on three counts of possession of a [Read More]
The sheriff’s office is on the scene of a reported shooting death on Snake Island Road in the Old Dock community. Chief Deputy Aaron Herring said the shooting occurred this morning. Investigators are currently at [Read More]
A former doctor who operated a “pill mill” in Columbus County was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for unlawfully distributing Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, Methadone, and Marijuana. John Whan Kim, 75, and co-defendant Tammy Thompson, [Read More]
After two years of false starts due to budgets and the pandemic, the long-awaited Eastern Division station for the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office opened Wednesday. “The residents of the eastern part of Columbus County deserve [Read More]
State officials said Tuesday that several commercial flocks of turkeys chickens are being destroyed after testing positive for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). More than 280,000 broilers and 90,000 turkeys in Johnston and Wayne counties [Read More]
It was pork chop day at my favorite eatery, ensuring a large, hungry crowd. I wasn’t in the mood for one of my favorite meats, so I had my usual, an omelet dragged through the garden, [Read More]
Major renovations are underway at the Columbus County Animal Protective Services (APS) shelter. “It takes a while to get things up to where they were supposed to be,” said Sheriff Jody Greene. “We are really [Read More]
Woman charged in Friday Bladen fatality. Two people died in unrelated crashes within 24 hours in Columbus, and a Clarkton man died in a Bladen crash Friday afternoon. Charges have been filed in the Bladen [Read More]
The water is high, and the weather is warm. Events in the county are happening all over the place, so how about a little fishing to add to the mix. The second annual Waccamaw Siouan [Read More]
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