Forest Service investigators have charged a Clayton man with multiple counts of timber theft and exploitation of senior adults. Joel Blake Lee, 55, was arrested this morning (July 8) on four counts of...
Damages were estimated at $150,000 after fire swept through a home on Sandhole Road Tuesday. Acme-Delco-Riegelwood Fire and Rescue Chief Steve Camlin said firefighters were called to the home at 906 S...
Tuesday’s fire at a railroad siding near Chadbourn is still under investigation, but may have been caused by spontaneous combustion. Firefighters were called to the commercial property near the inters...
Whiteville Police have launched a new way for citizens and businesses to connect with the department. The Citizen Connect Portal will allow users to find crime statistics, file some reports and submit...
Breaking news Multiple fire departments and the N.C. Forest Service are on the scene of a working fire at the intersection of Grist and Braswell roads near Chadbourn. Hazmat crews have also been calle...
Voters in Columbus County have been hit with misinformation from not one but two groups in recent days. The Board of Elections shared on social media that a letter received by some voters is causing c...
Charges are still pending against a Nakina man who allegedly stole a Columbus County Sheriff’s Office vehicle and led a high-speed chase into South Carolina June 26. Michael Terrill Hemingway, 29, is ...
Four candidates have signed up to run for two Soil and Water Conservation Supervisor seats on the November ballot. Incumbents James Malpass and Frank Galloway filed for reelection along with challenge...
A female suspect has been charged after allegedly allowing a man to molest three girls. Mary Louise Blanton, 52, of Loris, was taken into custody Monday night on three counts of felony child se...
UPDATED July 8 at 11:35 a.m. The Highway Patrol has identified the motorcyclist who died while trying to escape Columbus County deputies Monday evening. Colton Michael Newman, 20, of Fort Bragg, ramm...
Fireworks weren’t the only flames in the sky over the July 4 weekend in Columbus County. Firefighters in Riegelwood, Nakina and Tabor City responded to brush fires in several areas. Columbus County Fi...
A man was struck and killed Thursday near Council in Bladen County, and investigators have no information who he was or what hit him. First responders were called to the scene on N.C. 211 at 8:28 a.m....
A Superior Court judge denied bond for Eric Lamont Martin Jr. this morning (July 6). Martin faces a charge of first degree murder in Columbus County and another in Halifax County. He was arrested Satu...
Superior Court Judge Giles Clark, a fixture in courts in Bladen and Columbus for more than a half-century, died July 4 in Wilmington. Clark had been hospitalized while undergoing treatment for cancer ...
The suspect in three murders was arrested early today (July 4) in Wake County. Eric Lamont Martin, 18, was taken into custody in a joint operation by the Wake Sheriff’s Office, N.C. Dept. of Correctio...
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BKy2Tb1aU/ Editor’s note: The following is the text of the video message shared on our Facebook page. As we celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary, we’re cele...