A fight between brothers ended with a trip to the hospital for one and jail for the other. Johnathan Spivey, 30, of Hickory Hill Road, Chadbourn, allegedly stabbed his brother John, 31, in the c...
Speeding led to a string of additional charges after a man allegedly fled a traffic stop early Tuesday. Dreshawn Maqual Stanley, 23, of Longwood, was charged with fleeing to elude arrest, failure to s...
It wasn’t a very merry Christmas for the suspects after information from tipsters and citizens led to the arrest of two alleged meth traffickers Thursday. Ayla Christine Laney, 34, of Lexington, and J...
I was in a particularly good mood for a Monday, especially the Monday after Christmas when I knew gathering news would be a Herculean challenge and parts of me that I didn’t know existed were hurting....
Dead tags caused a traffic stop that resulted in a brief chase and a collision Tuesday, according to the Chadbourn Police Department. Gregory Sean Fray was charged with fleeing to elude arrest, assaul...
Updated One person died and five were hurt in a head-on collision Wednesday at Lake Waccamaw. Victoria Nicole “Tori” Simmons, 19, died at the scene of the Waccamaw Shores crash. Chie...
One person is dead and four injured after a two-vehicle collision on Waccamaw Shores Road this evening. Multiple departments and two helicopters were deployed to the wreck. This is a developing story....
I had no idea, when Hurricane Matthew pushed water into our home in 2016, that my wife was making plans for Christmas. As we dashed and sloshed around with flashlights, lifting boxes, trying to raise ...
UPDATED. A national non-profit is threatening to sue the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office over a Bible verse on a wall at the facility. The sheriff says he believes the attack may be politically motiv...
One suspect has been arrested in the Friday night shootout that killed one teen and injured two others. District Attorney Jon David said in a press release that a juvenile was taken into custody by th...
The combination of Delta and Omicron variants of COVID-19 could cause 10,000 new cases a day by January, Gov. Roy Cooper said in a press conference today (Tuesday). “With holiday gatherings, COVID cas...
A Fair Bluff teenager is dead and two others are recovering after a gunfight at a party near Cerro Gordo Friday night. Another teenager was wounded in a shooting in Chadbourn around the same time. Mar...
There’s no single right answer to dealing with the rise in youth violence, Sheriff Jody greene said. “Everyone has to work together,’ Greene said Friday. The sheriff’s office on Thursday hosted a ‘cal...
Once upon a time, a little boy saw Santa Claus from his brother’s bedroom. It was an old, old house, built by a wealthy family many years before even the boy’s parents were born. Where it had once bee...
While there have been no credible threats locally, the latest viral rumored to additional security at area schools today. Posters on TikTok, a social media group frequented by teens and youth, said th...
• Woman jailed after allegedly trying to ram patrol car. Five people are in jail and two more are being sought as deputies crack down on drug activities near Tabor City. Operation Take Back Columbus i...