News stories in Columbus, NC.
Update: 3:30 p.m. Oct. 16. The Highway Patrol has identified the two men killed in a single vehicle wreck near the Columbus-Brunswick line Thursday morning. Juan Perez, 21, of Woodland and Kevin Ramirez, 21, of Falcon, [Read More]
Columbus County reported 34 new cases but no new fatalities in Thursday’s COVID-19 pandemic report. The Health Department said that since the pandemic began in March, 1,562 total cases have been confirmed here, with 1,276 [Read More]
Uniformed law enforcement officers won’t be stationed at polls during the early election or on Nov. 3, but they will be on standby if needed. A memo from the state Board of Elections to [Read More]
The sheriff’s office has identified David Kadeem Hemingway, 28, as the man killed in the Oct. 5 shooting near Tabor City. Hemingway and two other men were shot on Memory Lane just after 11 p.m., [Read More]
Early voting for the Nov. 2 general election gets underway Thursday at five different sites in Columbus County. Early polls will be open at the county Board of Elections office, Chadbourn Town Hall, Fair [Read More]
The suspect in a 1995 Wilmington rape case has been arrested after DNA evidence tied him to the crime. The man is reportedly serving time for robberies in Columbus county. Wilmington Police said that Freddy [Read More]
If it were a holiday special, it would be called How The Pandemic Stole Christmas. Town commissioners in Lake Waccamaw Tuesday voted not to have the town’s Christmas Parade this year, and to decide in [Read More]
Lake to return PARTF grant Lake Waccamaw Town commissioners Tuesday reluctantly voted to return $180,000 in Parks and Recreation Trust Fund (PARTF) money to the state. Commissioners emphasized that Elizabeth Brinkley Park will still expand, [Read More]
Sheriff Jody Greene was driving one of the vehicles involved in a chase Thursday that crossed the state line and ended in a crash that sent a suspect to the hospital.Amos Earl Strickland, 62, of [Read More]
Nearly a year to the day after he allegedly shot and killed an elderly man’s dog in Brunswick, the suspect faces additional charges after he failed to appear on a charge of cruelty to animals. [Read More]
Commissioner Giles “Buddy” Byrd is due back in court Nov. 2 – the day before Election Day – to face charges of felony larceny and possession of stolen goods. Byrd was on the calendar today [Read More]
The second home invasion suspect who assaulted a woman and her three-legged dog with a baseball bat – only to be chased away by the woman’s fire extinguisher-wielding husband – will serve 58 to 82 [Read More]
Laura Marie Mace was found dead in her City Drive home Wednesday, according to Whiteville Police.Mace, 51, was the subject of a missing persons report, Lt. Andre Jackson said. Her cause of death is undetermined, [Read More]
This story is part of continuing coverage. We are currently awaiting fulfillment of several public records requests from the county and from a state agency. A public records request for all calls of alleged crimes [Read More]
County governments and nonprofit groups may apply for funding assistance from the N.C. Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund for farmland preservation projects beginning Oct. 12. This year’s request for proposals includes funding for [Read More]
Three inmates and a detention officer have tested positive for COVID-19, the sheriff’s office said Wednesday (today). The COVID-19 positive inmates presented with mild symptoms such as a headache, a stuffy nose, and a low [Read More]
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