The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for today (Monday) due to sweltering conditions across the area. Whiteville could see a heat index of 105 or more today, followed by even higher...
Testimony will continue Monday in the first degree murder trial of Isaac Miller, charged with shooting his father in 2019. Miller, 27, allegedly shot Anthony Chestnut in their Jackson Street home in C...
The four-month-old baby taken from a Loris-area home has been found safe. Horry County Police issued an alert late Thursday after Mason Bryant was taken from his home by his father, Akeem Bryant, with...
A Charlotte based broadband company, Brightspeed, has announced plans to build a fiber optic network in North Carolina that will include Columbus County. It expects to have the project completed ...
A South Carolina woman died after her Hummer SUV crashed into a Lees Lake home early Tuesday. Lori Copley, 59, of Camden, S.C. was driving east on N.C. 130 when when her 2005 Hummer went off the road ...
BAT-Mobiles To Hit All 100 counties The period from Memorial Day to Labor Day is referred to as the “100 deadliest days” on North Carolina highways. Impaired drivers, speeding and other unsafe practic...
Heavy rains Wednesday blocked portions of N.C. 904 East near Fowler Town Road and elsewhere, creating detours and headaches for motorists.Swamp Fox Highway, Will Inman Road, Fowler Town Road and sever...
An inmate facing charges of child molestation and attempting to escape is now facing additional weapon and escape charges. Gerson Daniel Brown, 25, of 844 Whitehall Road Whiteville, was charged Monday...
High school graduation is a special time in a youngster’s life, but the achievement is even more notable since the Covid pandemic. To mark the occasion at Thomas Academy, Elizabethtown-based pas...
Courtesy NCHSAA BURLINGTON – For the first time in the 2022 playoffs, the Randleman Tigers gave up a run, falling behind Whiteville 3-0 in the first inning of Game 2 of the 2022 2A Baseball State Cham...
UPDATE, 4:50 p.m.The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Team has captured James Jacobs and is turning him over to the Department of Corrections. Jacobs was found hiding in a cam...
For the second time in 28 days, firefighters and rescue crews recovered a drowning victim at Lake Waccamaw Saturday. Shane Donovan Hunt, 33, went over the side of his family’s boat to retrieve a float...
The second drowning victim in a month has been recovered from Lake Waccamaw.The 33 year old man went into the water to save his nine year old son after a float drifted away from the family’s boa...
Whiteville’s Wolfpack was handed a heartbreaker of a loss tonight as Randleman won the first game of the 2A playoffs, 10-0. The Pack couldn’t match the bats of the Tigers, who maintained their one-los...
Whiteville’s own “Sultans of Swat” are on the way to Burlington to face undefeated Randleman for the state 2A baseball championship.The Wolfpack was escorted through Whiteville today...
After a recent drowning, Lake Waccamaw Fire Chief Brandy Nance decided wants her search crews to be able to focus on rescue, rather than recovery. To that end, Nance hopes to soon add a jet ski to the...