The Columbus County Sheriff’s Animal Protective Services has gone through great lengths to improve conditions at the shelter over the last year and a half. New lighting, sanitation stations, flooring and kennels have been installed throughout [Read More]
It was like a county fair, but for pets. Saturday’s first ever Family Fur Day brought a couple hundred of area animal lovers and their furry companions to the Columbus County Fairgrounds. The event featured [Read More]
A Clarendon man allegedly threatened to mutilate a woman while sexually assaulting her last week. Logan Andrew Williamson, 38, was charged with two counts each of sexual battery and assault on a female, along with [Read More]
Man reported injured. City and county law enforcement were kept hopping Friday with multiple shootings. It is not known if any of the incidents are related. The sheriff’s office was called to Grand Strand Hospital [Read More]
Isaac Miller’s first degree murder trial was put on hold this morning after Miller’s defense attorney became ill Friday. Miller, 27, was charged with first degree murder in the 2019 slaying of his father, Anthony [Read More]
The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for today (Monday) due to sweltering conditions across the area. Whiteville could see a heat index of 105 or more today, followed by even higher numbers [Read More]
Testimony will continue Monday in the first degree murder trial of Isaac Miller, charged with shooting his father in 2019. Miller, 27, allegedly shot Anthony Chestnut in their Jackson Street home in Chadbourn in December [Read More]
A memorial ride in honor of Sergeant Luke Simmons of Lake Waccamaw will take place on Saturday, June 11. Registration is 9:30-10:30 a.m. at Cruzer’s Drive Thru in Whiteville. Kickstands will go up at 11:00 a.m. [Read More]
The four-month-old baby taken from a Loris-area home has been found safe. Horry County Police issued an alert late Thursday after Mason Bryant was taken from his home by his father, Akeem Bryant, without permission.HCPD [Read More]
A Charlotte based broadband company, Brightspeed, has announced plans to build a fiber optic network in North Carolina that will include Columbus County. It expects to have the project completed by the end of 2023. Brightspeed [Read More]
A South Carolina woman died after her Hummer SUV crashed into a Lees Lake home early Tuesday. Lori Copley, 59, of Camden, S.C. was driving east on N.C. 130 when when her 2005 Hummer went [Read More]
BAT-Mobiles To Hit All 100 counties The period from Memorial Day to Labor Day is referred to as the “100 deadliest days” on North Carolina highways. Impaired drivers, speeding and other unsafe practices become more [Read More]
Heavy rains Wednesday blocked portions of N.C. 904 East near Fowler Town Road and elsewhere, creating detours and headaches for motorists.Swamp Fox Highway, Will Inman Road, Fowler Town Road and several other thoroughfares were blocked [Read More]
An inmate facing charges of child molestation and attempting to escape is now facing additional weapon and escape charges. Gerson Daniel Brown, 25, of 844 Whitehall Road Whiteville, was charged Monday with possession of a [Read More]
High school graduation is a special time in a youngster’s life, but the achievement is even more notable since the Covid pandemic. To mark the occasion at Thomas Academy, Elizabethtown-based pastor Jason Williams will be [Read More]
Courtesy NCHSAA BURLINGTON – For the first time in the 2022 playoffs, the Randleman Tigers gave up a run, falling behind Whiteville 3-0 in the first inning of Game 2 of the 2022 2A Baseball [Read More]
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