CCN Radio News – Afternoon Report for October 10, 2025 (Press Play for the Audio) 🔊...
A Columbus County jury took less than an hour to find Cleon Cortez guilty of child sex crimes today (Nov. 21). Cleon Cortez, 53, was found guilty of taking indecent liberties with a minor and statutor...
I love Thanksgiving. The holiday is all too often forgotten, what with Halloween barely wrapping up before Santa Claus starts slamming Merry Commercialmas in everyone’s face, with a shopping day or tw...
Two vacant lots between Caldis and Franklin streets in Whiteville may become a retention pond. Amber Ransom Leonard, Glenda Holt Ransom and Timmy Ransom are requesting that the city of Whiteville cons...
CCN Radio News – Afternoon Report for November 20, 2025 (Press Play for the Audio) 🔊 ...
The N.C. Department of Transportation is distributing more than $185.6 million in State Street Aid to the 508 qualified municipalities that participate in the Powell Bill program. The annual allocatio...
The driver of a Columbus County school bus was injured Wednesday when the bus and a work truck collided near Nakina. No children were on the bus at the time of the wreck, according to Nakina Fire and ...
CCN Radio News – Afternoon Report for November 19, 2025 (Press Play for the Audio) 🔊...
Columbus Animal Protective services has reopened the shelter to intakes. Sheriff Bill Rogers said the shelter was closed to new arrivals due to the anticipated arrival of 34 dogs in a pending animal c...
Filing for local, state and U.S. Congress primary races begins Dec. 1. The March 3 party primaries will determine who will be on the November General Election Ballot. If a party does not provide a can...
Thanks to an anonymous donor, students in the county and city schools will soon see a new officer walking the halls. Xena, a German shepherd currently being trained to find contraband, was donated to ...
The suspect in a Tabor City structure fire now faces additional charges after he allegedly attacked a Columbus County Detention Office. James Rico Gore, 54, was charged with assault on a...
Intakes have been paused at Columbus Animal Protective Services, but the shelter is still open for adoptions. APS announced today (Tuesday) that they have reached full capacity. Dogs, cats, kittens an...
CCN Radio News – Afternoon Report for November 18, 2025 (Press Play for the Audio) 🔊 ...
Forest Service crews have contained a fire off Big Island Road near Wardtown and N.C. 130, but officials are advising residents to be extremely careful and to avoid outdoor burning right now. “There i...
Six-year-old Kyla Mae Benton will be the grand marshal of the Whiteville Christmas Parade. Kyla was seriously injured in the car crash that killed her mother, Misty Cribb, in January. Her stepbrother ...