The sheriff’s office on Monday announced three arrests for sex offenses against minors. None of the cases are related, according to the sheriff’s office. All came after extensive investigations....
Chadbourn Chief of Police Anthony Spivey was placed on paid administrative lead Friday. Mayor Phillip Britt said the town is conducting an internal investigation into “leadership issues. “It’s early, ...
Two additional suspects have been jailed in the county’s first murder of the year. Jamaal Green has been charged with murder and Amanda Williamson as accessory after the fact in...
Detectives found four children with easy access to a sawed-off shotgun and narcotics in a Jan. 26 investigation, and have since arrested the children’s mother. Victoria Noyola, 27, with addresses...
The board of the Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation of North Carolina has set the 2021 boll weevil assessment at 75 cents per acre of cotton. The amount remains the same...
A nine-month investigation has resulted in the arrest of an alleged career vehicle break-in suspect. Jimmy Stanley Thompson, 51, is under $278,500 secured bond in the Columbus county detention Center....
More frontline essential workers in Group Three are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations, and the health department will begin accepting appointments today for residents in Groups One, Two and Three...
Sheriff Jody Greene was named interim director of Animal Control Monday. The county commissioners, in a unanimous vote, approved putting the troubled department under the sheriff’s office while Direct...
Developing story One man has been charged with the killing of a Clarkton woman missing since Feb. 8. Timothy Ray Cain II, of 641 Merritt Road, Chadbourn was charged with...
For nearly a year, it lay waiting. Half-covered by rank grass, half-shaded by the scrub oaks and desperate pines, shielded from traffic by little more than a half-hearted blackberry bramble...
Some water customers at Lake Waccamaw are under a boil water advisory this morning. Residents in the area of Cameron Street, Lake View Avenue, Central Avenue, Ash Street and Church...
The body of a missing woman was found off Klondyke Road Wednesday. Jacqueline Elaine “Lynn” Landreth, 37, was reported missing from her Rosindale Road, Clarkton hom on Feb. 8, according...
The video that caused multiple complaints of elections tampering during the early voting period has been turned over to the District Attorney’s office. Brandon Patrick recorded the exchange between a...
Two area hospitals are upping their game in regards to COVID-19 vaccinations.A recent directive from Gov. Roy Cooper prioritized teachers, education professionals and childcare workers for vaccination...
Citing improving numbers but cautioning Carolinians to be safe, Gov. Roy Cooper today announced the end to the nighttime curfew as well as loosened restrictions on some businesses.The new executive...
Gov. Roy Cooper will hold a video update of the state’s COVID-19 efforts at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday). On Tuesday, State Sec. of Health and Human Services Mandy Cohen hinted...