Parents aren’t the only ones getting ready to send their children back to school. The Columbus Baptist Association is preparing, too. The organization’s Backpack Buddies ministry will start back up...
After a brief executive session Monday, Columbus County commissioners voted to cancel the Lake Waccamaw EMS contract with the county. The motion was suggested by County Manager Eddie Madden and...
Deputies used the county’s armored vehicle and tear gas to end a standoff on Beaverdam Road with no injuries early Monday. Brandon Nobles, 33, of 3810 Old Cribbtown Rd., Chadbourn,...
Surveillance footage and a bank card led to the arrest of a Delco man on multiple theft charges. Curtis Wayne Cruse, 50, of 5316 Delco Prosper Rd., was charged with...
No one was injured after a suspect shot at deputies in a domestic violence call this morning. Brandon Nobles was taken into custody around 4 a.m., Chief Deputy Aaron Herring...
One woman was burned in an early morning housefire in Whiteville this morning (Sunday). Whiteville Fire Marshal Hal Lowder said three people lived in the home in the 100 block...
One of Whiteville’s most notorious havens for crime, especially drug sales, will soon be a parking lot. After a year’s worth of work in the courts, demolition crews levelled the...
A local physician is raising money for the purchase of medical equipment to take to Honduras for a good cause. Dr. Susan Aycock is setting up a program in the...
The suspect in a Wrightsville Beach sexual assault was arrested at Lake Waccamaw Monday. Walter Bennett Craven, 56, of 108 Lakeshore Dr., Lake Waccamaw, was charged with one count each...
The sheriff’s office has arrested a senior citizen from Leland on drug trafficking charges. Freddie Everett Ross, 81, was charged with three counts of trafficking opiates, and sale and delivery...
Two Christian organizations are going to be out playing on the greens in the coming weeks, and it’s all in the name of charity. Bold and Beautiful Wigs for Cancer...
Buying school clothes and supplies should be a little easier for parents in Columbus County this year. Uniforms were done away with in May, after multiple complaints by parents and...
Dr. Dan Strickland is Southeastern Community College’s newest board member. The former school superintendent of county schools was appointed by the Columbus County Board of Commissioners. Strickland w...
I use to be one of those people who judged. I had an opinion for every circumstance and every fault that a person may have. I was a teenager who...
Full-time security, on-site management and other safety improvements will be required if the owners of Sandy Ridge Apartments want to stay in business. A consent agreement filed with the courts...
After complaints about open air drug sales at Lake Waccamaw, Columbus County Vice-Narcotics agents arrested an alleged customer and dealer July 14. Conrad Demetrius Powell, 51, and Ernest Jerome Bland...