Multiple charges were filed against a Hamlet man after a high speed chase through Whiteville Saturday. Rodrick Terrell Powers, 30, of Perry avenue, Hamlet, was held under $7,500 secured bond on multip...
Updated with names of four former employees. Four employees have left or been fired from Columbus County Animal Control, forcing the shelter to temporarily cease intakes except for emergencies. The em...
The Whiteville woman charged with felony hit and run in a Shallotte death was herself a shooting victim earlier in December. Tabitha Ann Reaves, 21, was arrested by authorities in Whiteville. She is b...
Customers scrambled for safety after a shootout at the Food Lion in North Whiteville injured one man Wednesday. Lamonte Pridgen, 18, was struck twice in the back, Det. S. Moody of the Whiteville Polic...
Cocaine, methamphetamines, and firearms added up to 117 months in federal prison for a Hallsboro man. Jamal Devon “Maul” Bryant, 35, was arrested in a joint law enforcement operation in Ju...
The state’s longest serving legislator, Tabor City attorney Robert Charles “R.C.” Soles, died Friday. Soles did not run for reelection in 2010. At a political event that fall, Soles quoted Gen. George...
A careworker at a Lake Waccamaw care facility has been charged with exploiting a elderly person. April Nicole Bass, 34, was released on $6,000 unsecured bond on two charges of exploiting an elderly ad...
UPDATED The fire that destroyed the Lewis Smith shopping center in Whiteville on Friday was set, City Fire Marshal Hal Lowder said. Lowder said he worked with State Bureau of Investigation arson speci...
Watson reported killing to police Curtis Watson has been charged in the 2003 murder of a Chadbourn area woman.Kathy Williamson’s body was found on Christmas Eve, 2003, in her home on Blackwell Road. S...
Gov. Roy Cooper this afternoon proposed almost $5 billion in budget requests using federal COVID-19 funding. Among the proposed uses for the money are $37 million for minority businesses, $2 billion f...
A single-vehicle crash has blocked both lanes of Kenny Jordan Road near N.C. 904. We’re working to obtain more information, and will share it on Columbuscountynews.com as soon as it is available...
Columbus Regional to begin 65+ vaccinations; Southeastern gets new shipment. Two area hospitals are expanding their vaccination efforts. Columbus regional is setting up a COVID vaccine clinic for pers...
One man has been charged after allegedly dragging a motorcyclist under an SUV in December. Warrants show Ricky Prevatte, 53, of Barnes Street, Lumberton, was charged with a single count of attempted f...
Three men were jailed, 28 firearms seized and a quantity of narcotics were confiscated after a series of raids in Brunswick Jan. 27.Additional details have been released on the raids since CCN first p...
An early morning car crash on Hallsboro Road left two people dead Sunday. The Highway Patrol reported that Tomeka Bradford and James Strickland were killed when a Mercedes automobile driven by Bradfor...
Update: MCCormick is in custody. Detectives in two counties are searching for an alleged rapist. James Patrick McCormick, whose last known address was in Evergreen, is wanted for the statutory &n...