News stories in Columbus, NC.
The Waccamaw Siouan STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Studio has announced plans for events during 2022. Virtual career programs, scholarships, a youth wigwam challenge, and the Yacunne Community Camp will be the highlights of the organization’s busy [Read More]
A reader called me the other day to talk about her family’s newest member. Their beagle turned up scared, tick-infested, and hungry. After several days of coaxing, they befriended the old girl. A trip to [Read More]
By Dalton Dockery, PhD For the last five years, I have tried to write something in honor of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in observance of his national holiday. He was an individual [Read More]
The Columbus County Youth and Families organization will be having a Virtual Bites cooking contest. Participants can enter the contest by recording themselves making their signature dish and submitting it before Feb. 11. Prizes are [Read More]
• Drugs were worth $150,000 on the street Two suspects are in jail and $150,000 worth of crystal methamphetamine is off the street after an investigation by Whiteville Police.Mayer Nunez Olmedo and Ivan Carmona-Rosas, both [Read More]
Two alleged drug dealers had firearms and body armor in a home near Tabor City. The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office reported that Rico Antonio Smith, 37, and Forest Dean Bielinski, 28, were arrested after citizen [Read More]
One home was struck by gunfire in Whiteville Jan. 8 while Whiteville Police Officers were investigating a possible break-in – after another shots fired call. Lt. Andre Jackson of the WPD said officers were called [Read More]
WPD: Suspect was passed out at gas pump. Using a false name didn’t work out well for a suspect found passed out at a Whiteville convenience store early Sunday. Austin Cross, 26, was charged with [Read More]
The experts call it “Florence Syndrome” The actors came to the center of the stage and as the lights dimmed, a song began to play. The young men and women were signing the words to [Read More]
New additions run wild this week in the Good News. It even includes a baby of the four legged kind. The Boys and Girls Home of North Carolina welcomed a new addition to the equine [Read More]
The county’s first highway death of the year occurred Wednesday, when a Clarendon man lost control of his car and crashed. Gary Wayne Cartrette, 62, died Thursday from injuries sustained in the single-vehicle wreck. He [Read More]
William James Purdie turned himself in to Bladen authorities Wednesday to face charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Purdie, 37, of Airport Road, Clarkton, was charged with the murder of Ervin Junior [Read More]
Vice-Narcotics detectives have arrested another alleged cocaine, methamphetamine and opiate dealer near Chadbourn. Kelly J. McClure, 38, of 97 McDuffie Lane, Chadbourn, was jailed under $301,000 bond on six counts of felony sale and delivery [Read More]
Pursuit of a fleeing suspect led deputies from Whiteville to Hallsboro and back again just before midnight Wednesday. Brandon Lee Lewis, 39, faces multiple charges including fleeing to elude arrest, driving while impaired, failure to [Read More]
DWI suppression efforts working, sheriff says. Checkpoints in December and January turned up stolen vehicles, drugs, fugitives, and multiple traffic violations, but the sheriff’s office did not arrest a single impaired driver during the Holiday [Read More]
I made a new friend the other day. Her name is Maggie. When I say made, I mean made. As in, created. It was very strange. I was looking for a column subject that wouldn’t [Read More]
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