Four black males allegedly stole a Kawasaki motorcycle from another man during a robbery in Whiteville Thursday. Whiteville Police reported that the victim was contacted by an alleged buyer for the Kawasaki 450, and agree [Read More]
Neither heat, lightning, nor time could stop the Central Columbus Angels Sunday in a nine-inning thriller in Ruston, La., as they came back from 3-0 to win 4-3. It was a pitcher’s duel with heat [Read More]
A Lee County woman has been charged with attempting to bring narcotics into the prison facility at Brunswick. India Leandra Berryman, 30, was charged with possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver K2 Spice [Read More]
The State Bureau of Investigation is looking into the death of another inmate at Columbus Correctional Center in Brunswick. Quashaunn Omar Shuford, age 31, was found unresponsive in a dormitory just after midnight Thursday. Chad [Read More]
A pair of local teams will be among the 42 squads invading Harnett County this weekend as the World Series of DYB starts today (July 25) in Dunn. Two teams from Riegelwood will represent North [Read More]
Deputies charged a woman for assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly hitting her husband with a vehicle, then insisting she go to the hospital. Tonya Keel, 39, of 816 Williams Rd., Chadbourn, was held [Read More]
Deputies are investigating a late night shooting near Chadbourn that injured one man Thursday. Deputies were called to Williams Road just before midnight, where they found Patrick Davis, 30, with a gunshot wound to the [Read More]
A man who was stabbed in the abdomen refused medical treatment and wouldn’t cooperate with investigators early Wednesday, after he was tracked by an ankle monitor. The sheriff’s office was called to Todd Town Road [Read More]
A domestic violence warrant led to multiple narcotics charges and no bond for a Whiteville-area man. Joseph Daniel Wells, 36, of 37 Ruth Stanley Lane, was held under no bond on charges of domestic violence, [Read More]
Several head of cattle are recovering after reportedly being shot in northern Columbus County. The sheriff’s office was called to Pine Drive, Bladenboro July 22 after a farmer discovered what appeared to be healing gunshot [Read More]
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Sheriff Bill Rogers addressed media reports of Henry Zartman’s autopsy report in a video released Thursday evening. Rogers said the state medical examiner’s use of the term homicide did not mean the ME determined the [Read More]
By Kayla Henson Columbus County Partnership for Children Did you know that more than 700 languages are spoken in India? It’s a fact that students at Edgewood Elementary School were shocked to hear, and one [Read More]
West Columbus recently named Gage Hammond as the new varsity baseball coach. Hammond was a standout baseball player for the Vikings, where in his sophomore year, he helped the Vikings to the Eastern Finals. His [Read More]
Whiteville is losing $5.1 million in FEMA flood prevention funding, money that would have helped improve Mollies Branch. “This means a lot to the city,” City Manager Darren Currie said. “Losing the BRIC money was [Read More]
By Dianne Ward Nobles Greater Tabor City Chamber of Commerce Here we are already a little more than a month into our official summer season and it has certainly been a hot few weeks. We [Read More]
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