A Clarendon man allegedly threatened to mutilate a woman while sexually assaulting her last week. Logan Andrew Williamson, 38, was charged with two counts each of sexual battery and assault on a female, along with [Read More]
Man reported injured. City and county law enforcement were kept hopping Friday with multiple shootings. It is not known if any of the incidents are related. The sheriff’s office was called to Grand Strand Hospital [Read More]
Isaac Miller’s first degree murder trial was put on hold this morning after Miller’s defense attorney became ill Friday. Miller, 27, was charged with first degree murder in the 2019 slaying of his father, Anthony [Read More]
The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for today (Monday) due to sweltering conditions across the area. Whiteville could see a heat index of 105 or more today, followed by even higher numbers [Read More]
This week Jefferson talks with Aspen Allen & Hayley Damato of Southeastern Community College. Listen in the player below. THE COLUMBUS CONNECTION with Jefferson Weaver is a weekly public affairs program produced in, for, and about [Read More]
Testimony will continue Monday in the first degree murder trial of Isaac Miller, charged with shooting his father in 2019. Miller, 27, allegedly shot Anthony Chestnut in their Jackson Street home in Chadbourn in December [Read More]
The four-month-old baby taken from a Loris-area home has been found safe. Horry County Police issued an alert late Thursday after Mason Bryant was taken from his home by his father, Akeem Bryant, without permission.HCPD [Read More]
A Charlotte based broadband company, Brightspeed, has announced plans to build a fiber optic network in North Carolina that will include Columbus County. It expects to have the project completed by the end of 2023. Brightspeed [Read More]
A South Carolina woman died after her Hummer SUV crashed into a Lees Lake home early Tuesday. Lori Copley, 59, of Camden, S.C. was driving east on N.C. 130 when when her 2005 Hummer went [Read More]
BAT-Mobiles To Hit All 100 counties The period from Memorial Day to Labor Day is referred to as the “100 deadliest days” on North Carolina highways. Impaired drivers, speeding and other unsafe practices become more [Read More]
Summer means it’s time for Vacation Bible School. Email your church’s information to crystalfaircloth@columbuscounty.news, and we’ll include your VBS on our website as well as on WTXY KOOL 1039 during our daily broadcasts and on The [Read More]
An inmate facing charges of child molestation and attempting to escape is now facing additional weapon and escape charges. Gerson Daniel Brown, 25, of 844 Whitehall Road Whiteville, was charged Monday with possession of a [Read More]
Courtesy NCHSAA BURLINGTON – For the first time in the 2022 playoffs, the Randleman Tigers gave up a run, falling behind Whiteville 3-0 in the first inning of Game 2 of the 2022 2A Baseball [Read More]
UPDATE, 4:50 p.m.The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Team has captured James Jacobs and is turning him over to the Department of Corrections. Jacobs was found hiding in a camper on the Lumber River.Sheriff [Read More]
For the second time in 28 days, firefighters and rescue crews recovered a drowning victim at Lake Waccamaw Saturday. Shane Donovan Hunt, 33, went over the side of his family’s boat to retrieve a float [Read More]
The second drowning victim in a month has been recovered from Lake Waccamaw.The 33 year old man went into the water to save his nine year old son after a float drifted away from the [Read More]
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