Buyers and sellers using the internet and parents dropping off children for visitation now have a new, safer option courtesy of the sheriff’s office and International Paper. Sheriff Jody Greene...
Outdoors enthusiasts have until Feb. 1 to review and comment on a series of proposed changes to hunting, trapping, fishing and gamelands rules. The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will accept...
By Katie Compton Boyd No doubt about it, my gramps loved Christmas. He loved everything about it, the meaning, the reason, the joy dancing across children’s faces. Each Christmas he...
Citing the continued spread of the COVID-19 virus, Gov. Roy Cooper announced today that a modified stay-at-home order goiees into place Friday at 5 p.m. Businesses will be required to...
Republican majority now holds board. Bullard named chair, with McMillian returning to the vice chair post. Despite a chilly rain, an enthusiastic crowd gathered at the courthouse in Whiteville Monday...
The reported girlfriend of Mark Anthony Nelson has been arrested and charged with the Nov. 29 murder of a Hope Mills man and the shooting of his grandfather. Tamika Ford,...
The county school system today began reporting weekly COVID-19 numbers via the central office. On its Facebook page, the Columbus County Schools shared a link to a new weekly listing that...
Officials are investigating the cause of the second structure fire in less than 48 hours at a High Orchard Road home. Deputy Fire Marshal Chase Lancaster said a neighbor called...
Another inmate at Tabor Correctional has died from COVID-19. The inmate was in his 70s and had underlying health conditions, according to the Department of Corrections. He died in an...
The county’s COVID death toll rose to 73 this week, with the latest victim dying at home Nov. 27. In today’s twice-weekly report, the county reported an additional 58 cases...
Officials hope an image from a surveillance camera will help identify an alleged thief in the Nakina area. Around 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 10, the sheriff’s office says, the individual...
Updated 5 p.m. Detectives and deputies raided a Queen Street home this afternoon and arrested a Tabor City man for Sunday night shooting that left a Hope Mills man dead....
Good William IX doesn’t have to hunt for a living any more, but the instinct is still there. I brought the redbone home on my birthday a few years back,...
Thanksgiving has ended, which typically marks that wonderful time of year when I begin decorating for Christmas. Not inside, mind you, until Dec. 1 at the earliest, because I can...
Whiteville Police managed to prevent a suicide Wednesday at the Walmart parking lot. Major William Hinz said Officer Michael Strickland was dispatched to assist EMS on a call about a...
Santa will have help from some elves in leather jackets Saturday. The 22nd annual Concerned Bikers Association Toy Run will begin at 9 a.m. at the Walmart parking lot in Whiteville....