Local boy in burn center after accident. A local boy is in UNC Burn Center after sustaining second and third degree burns July 3. Ryder Faircloth, age seven, was seriously burned after an aeroso...
BREAKING NEWS Chadbourn Police and the State Bureau of Investigation are on the scene of what may be the town’s first triple homicide. Interim Police Chief Ken Elliot said CPD was responding to a shot...
Alexis Kirt now faces charges in the hit and run fatality. Charges against Robert Bolick have been dropped. The Highway Patrol has charged a woman with the June 4 hit and run death of a farmworker in ...
An avid church member and former substitute teacher has died from injuries sustained in a traffic crash on U.S. 74-76 Wednesday. Bernice “Mickey” Little McKeithan, 90, was airlifted after a wreck near...
Note to my readers: With rare exceptions, I do not like to reprint columns, since I consider this to be a lazy habit. However, this is one people ask me about every year. This column below is an edite...
The Columbus County Chamber of Commerce welcomed Dr. A. Nicole Jenkins Wednesday morning in a ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of her new practice, Doctor of Physical Therapy.The office is loca...
The cowboys (and cowgirls) are coming back to Lake Waccamaw. The Boys and Girls Home of North Carolina will host a rodeo Aug. 13 – 14. It is sponsored by the Southeastern Gospel Music Associatio...
Local author Dr. Bobby Waddell continues to detail his journey as a Christian with the release of his second book, Turnabout. Turnabout was published in April. It follows&nb...
Columbus Career and College Academy will be having a Freshman Family Night and Picnic on July 29, at 5:30 p.m. in the auditorium at the Southeastern Community College campus. Due to seating limitation...
The company will bring 125 new jobs to the area. The sprawling industrial park on the Columbus-Brunswick line will soon have a new tenant. Precision Swiss Products, Inc. a manufacturer of high precisi...
One man is in critical condition after a shooting Saturday night in Whiteville. Det. Sgt. Scott Moody said Whiteville Police were called to West Lewis Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard at 8:58 p...
Buying a new house is never an easy thing. You have to give a loan company your information, and let them delve deep into your paper trails, and pull out the insides. After all the back and forth, fee...
Plans are underway for road construction at the Chauncey Town Road and Old Lake Road corridors at Lake Waccamaw. The N.C. Department of Transportation plans to put in 180 degree turns,...
Farmers who suffered damages in Hurricanes Florence, Michael and Dorian could qualify for direct payments from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The N.C. Department of Agriculture and ...
This Independence Day, anyone in North Carolina, regardless of age, will be able to fish for free. Free Fishing Day, which runs from 12 a.m. until 11:59 p.m. on July 4, offers residents and out-of-sta...
DEVELOPING STORY:The man wanted for killing his girlfriend in Pender County was killed by U.S. Marshals in a shooting incident at the Whiteville Walmart around 2:30 p.m. Thursday (today).Initial repor...