Former Sheriff Lewis Hatcher and his family escaped injury Thursday after someone fired multiple rounds at his home. Hatcher, his wife and nephew were inside the home at Pridgen Acres near Clarkton wh...
The driver who left the scene of an early morning fatality in Fair Bluff will not be charged. Entrell Moore, 20, of Tabor City thought he had struck an animal in the roadway at Elm and Academy streets...
The rain tapered off just in time today for ceremonial shovels to be turned on the new Veterans Outreach Center to be built at the Veterans Memorial Park. Volunteers erected tent Saturday in anticipat...
For the second time in less than a month, two people died in separate auto crashes a short time apart in Columbus County this weekend. The wrecks happened Saturday evening. Jacqueline Strickland died ...
Veterans Day events are going to make for a busy weekend across our area. The county Veterans Day Parade is Saturday at 11 a.m. in downtown Whiteville. The Hallsboro Community Veterans are hosting a r...
A convicted felon arrested with a rifle and narcotics is being held under $250,000 secured bond after an arrest early Saturday morning. Houston Edward Scott, 27, was arrested by the sheriff’s office o...
The squirrel cussed me like a drunken sailor, so I saluted him with my coffee. The fan hummed in the background, although the morning was markedly cooler. It was just not cold enough to kill the mosqu...
While local judges were unopposed Nov. 5, some of the hottest and most watched races of the campaign were at the state level, and all four went Republican. Five local judges – Superior Court Judges C....
Polly Slocumb’s nightmare about the battle of Moores Creek is memorialized on a marker at the National Battlefield Park in Currie – but did it happen? Historian Chris Fonvielle will discuss Polly Sloc...
In one of the fastest election nights in recent history, Columbus County’s unofficial results were in by 9:10 p.m. tonight (Nov. 5). Republican voters dominated the local ballots. Incumbent Giles “Bud...
Voter turnout has been steady but slow across Columbus County today, according to election observers. A few technical problems were reported early this morning, Republican Party Chair Sammy Hinson sai...
An argument turned into a car chase involving a four wheeler this morning, and one man was shot. Sheriff Bill Rogers said the incident happened near Boardman around 2 a.m. A disagreement between two m...
A four year old boy is in stable condition at UNC Hospital after he was struck in the neck by gunfire in Cerro Gordo Monday. The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office and State Bureau of Investigation are ...
Early voting ended Saturday with staggering numbers for the county and state. More than 18,500 ballots have been cast in Columbus, either at early polls or by mail in absentees. That was more than fif...
The man who killed a Bladenboro resident in a drive-by shooting will serve up to 28 years in prison. Daniel Autry pleaded guilty today (Nov. 4) in front of Chief Superior Court Judge Ashley Gore to ch...
An Elizabethtown man is out on bond on felony drug charges because he failed to wear a seatbelt. James Warner Littrell, 19, of David Street, Elizabethtown, was charged with possession of psychedelic m...