I clicked on what should have been an amusing online video of things kids say the other day and was utterly shocked. While several of the clips were just young’uns being almost annoyingly cute, a coup...
April saw a slight drop in E-gambling for North Carolina, according to the State Lottery commission. Between April 1 and April 30, account holders in North Carolina wagered $612,495,383 on sporting ev...
EAST COLUMBUS 15, SOUTHEASTERN COLLEGIATE PREP 0 Gators advance on Simmons’ perfect game HALIFAX—Gauge Simmons pitched a perfect game for East Columbus on Friday against Southeastern Collegiate Prep A...
3A #18 Whiteville @ #15 Northeastern #19 South Lenoir @ #14 South Columbus #17 West Bladen @ #16 Pender 2A #22 Rosewood @ #11 East Bladen...
WHITEVILLE—The Wolfpack baseball team won in grand fashion with a bottom of the seventh 3-2 comeback win against Providence Grove in the 3A playoffs on Friday night. Trailing 2-1 with one out, Ty’Lae ...
The legislature and Governor Josh Stein have an opportunity to avoid making the same mistake twice. The newest industry feeding off of tax dollars is the boom in data centers. As technology embraces m...
A domestic argument led to a Chadbourn home receiving multiple gunshots early Sunday. The alleged shooter is being held under no bond. Chadbourn Police said John Christopher Graham Jr., 35, of 217 W. ...
The National Weather Service in Wilmington has confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down at Delco on Saturday afternoon. The NWS storm survey team noted that the tornado was on the ground for approx...
Updated 8:48 p.m. A possible tornado touched down in Riegelwood and Delco this afternoon. County Commissioner Laverne Coleman said McPherson’s Acme Home Supply and multiple homes were damaged. No inju...
Editor’s note — I wrote this column several years back, but in honor of today’s release of files at war.gov/ufo, I thought it was a good time to share it again. I was relishing a rar...
Some city water customers may experience outages Tuesday from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. while Whiteville Public Works crews are working on valves. The city shared on its Facebook page that customers along M...
BASEBALL 1A #6 East Columbus (15-6) at #3 Southeastern Collegiate (9-3) 2A #11 East Bladen (12-10) at #6 ALA-Johnson (15-9) 3A #13 Providence Grove (13-10) at #4 Whiteville (15-6) #12 Wake Prep a...
The man who drove the getaway vehicle after Trooper Kevin Conner was murdered in 2018 is back in jail. Raheen “Little Murder” Davis, 27, was arrested early Friday morning (today) on charges of larceny...
A Columbus County jury found Parker Spaulding guilty in an assault that left an infant with “life altering injuries.” He still faces trial for repeatedly raping an adolescent girl while out on bond fo...
While the outdoor burn bans were lifted after last weekend’s washout, Columbus County was still considered to be in an extreme drought as of this morning (May 7). The N.C. Drought Monitor has most of ...
A local man killed during the invasion of France in June 1944 will be buried in Chadbourn Saturday. U.S. Navy Carpenter’s Mate 2nd Class William R. Burns, 25, died when his destroyer, the USS Glennon,...