News Briefs for January 8, 2025 Christopher Edwards has been arrested on multiple felonies after a 120 mile per hour chase that left a deputy’s car damaged. Edwards fled the...
Bladen County confirmed a raccoon on Sholar Road is the first rabies case of the year. The deceased animal was revived by Animal Control and sent to the state lab...
News Briefs for January 7, 2025 Christopher Edwards has been arrested on multiple felonies after a 120 mile per hour chase that left a deputy’s car damaged. Edwards fled...
January 31, 1956 – January 7, 2025 Roy Edison Hewett, 68, of Whiteville, passed away on Tuesday, January 7, 2024, at his home. Roy was born on January 31, 1956,...
March 12, 1944 – January 7, 2025 Linda Collins Avant, 80, of Evergreen, passed away on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 in the Lower Cape Fear Angel House in Whiteville. Linda...
March 27, 1937 ~ January 2, 2025 (age 87) Mildred Virginia Baldwin Maultsby, 87, formerly of Whiteville, died Thursday, January 2, 2025, at Piedmont Hospital in Athens, GA. The funeral will be 12:00...
December 12, 1958 ~ January 7, 2025 (age 66) Pauline Carmichael Godfrey, 66, of 105 Forest Edge Circle, Tabor City, NC, died Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at home. The...
August 13, 1946 ~ January 3, 2025 (age 78) James Franklin “Jimmy” Roberts, Jr., 78, of Whiteville, passed on Friday, January 3, 2025, in Columbus Regional Healthcare. He was born August ...
News Briefs for January 6, 2025 Columbus County’s first road fatality of the year took the life of a Clarendon woman this morning. Misty Cribb, age 35, was killed...
April 16, 1942 – January 5, 2025 Emerson Carol Duncan, Jr. lovingly known as “E.C.”, died on Sunday evening, January 5, 2024, at Columbus Regional Healthcare System in Whiteville, NC....
September 1, 1941 ~ January 6, 2025 (age 83) Sara Alice Davis Smallwood age 83, of Tabor City died Monday January 6, 2025, in her home. Born in Cordova, AL. She was the...
August 23, 1989 ~ January 6, 2025 (age 35) Misty Faye Cribb age 35, of Clarendon, died Monday, January 6, 2025. Born in Columbus County, NC. She was the daughter of Terry Lee...
By Justin Williamson – Brews & Bites I was driving over to an appointment late last August. The GPS led me down 76 West. I headed into the very familiar...
The first highway fatality of the year in Columbus claimed the life of a Clarendon woman this morning. Misty Cribb, 35, of Cribbtown Road, died after her 2010 Dodge was...
January 4, 1934 — January 4, 2025 Gladys Melvin died on 4 January 2025 surrounded by family and loved ones. Gladys was pre-deceased by her loving husband of 70 years,...
July 21, 1926 – January 5, 2025 Glenda Norman Strole, wife of the late John Philip Strole, passed peacefully from the bonds of earth into the heavenly presence of her...














