UPDATED with warrant information.Narcotics officers arrested a Columbus County deputy on drug and pornography charges last night.Bradley Scott Rockwell, 48, a two-year veteran of Columbus Co...
I finally caught Hope on a day when the thermometer in the truck read 105. She was mangy, covered in ticks, scratched up and infected. She was too hot, tired and weak to struggle when I managed to cor...
Local and state leaders will meet March 19 to discuss the future of Whiteville. Whiteville City council will meet with local legislators to discuss growth, infrastructure and financing in a special me...
A man on a stolen motorcycle led law enforcement on a high speed chase, then a brief foot pursuit March 2. Lamarquise Rashaaad Pollard was riding a dirtbike down Madison Street in Whiteville around 1:...
Burning off old grass, preparing gardens and disposing of winter-killed leaves and limbs is a big part of spring in Southeastern North Carolina. All too often, those traditions can quickly lead to wil...
Gov. Roy Cooper today said North Carolina is being called a leader in ensuring minorities are vaccinated for COVID-19 at proportional rates to white residents. Of the 1.1 million vaccines administered...
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 the February killing a...
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 on H...
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 as in 2020. The fe...
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 murder and armed robbery on Fe...
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 and a ditc...