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The routine search of a prison employee heading to work turned up a bag of tobacco Aug. 20, according to the Columbus County sheriff’s office. juJuan Lowell Lambert, 33, was arrested for possession of...
An Elizabethtown with roots in Columbus lost her home to fire Aug. 3 is getting some help from her high school class mates. Diane Pratt Soles lost power in her home near the Elizabethtown Highway Patr...
Every pay period, (based on a two-week pay period) we are suggesting items to pick up for your emergency kit in the event of a hurricane. By now you should have your water-tight tote. As we go further...
An apparent roommate of a Durham man found dead in the Cape Fear River has been arrested for the killing. Jim Robert Goins, 41, was arrested in Wake County by U.S. Marshals and Bladen County Sheriff’s...
Updated 11:45 a.m. Thursday Betty Smith Bryant, 63, has been charged with first degree arson after allegedly setting fire to the home, according to the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office. The fire...
Jewelry and cash were taken from a Gilliard Road woman in an alleged robbery Aug. 25. Deputies responded to the home near Chadbourn on a disturbance call. Kayla Todd told the sheriff’s office that a m...
The boil water advisory has been lifted for the county’s Water District IV, which includes the Riegelwood Sanitary District.The advisory was issued Tuesday after periods of low pressure in the a...
A detective working on another investigation ended up literally chasing down a new case just after midnight Monday morning. Det. Paul Rockenbach was on Seven Creeks Highway in Nakina when he spo...
UPDATE: Monday 2:58 p.m. Bladen County authorities have identified Kenneth Ross Covell, 54, as the body found in the Cape Fear River near Golf Course Road.The body of the suspected murder victim was f...
A Shallotte man found out you can’t outrun the long arm of the law Aug. 18. Skyler Wade Peacock, 20, was charged with child abuse, fleeing to elude arrest, carless and reckless driving heorin possessi...
UPDATE: 11:25 a.m. A student at Old Dock, another student at Edgewood Elementary, and a staff member at East Columbus have tested positive for COVID 19. Three cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed at ...
Every pay period, (based on a two-week pay period) we are suggesting items to pick up for your emergency kit in the event of a hurricane. By now you should have your water-tight tote. As we go further...
45-54 year olds, females most at risk While the death toll hasn’t risen, Columbus county’s total COVID-19 count rose to 1,024 as of today’s report (Thursday). Daniel Buck, spokesman for the department...
DSS takes custody of child from “filthy” home. Two women were arrested on drug charges and a toddler was turned over to Social Services after an Aug. 13 raid on a home described as “filthy...
The boil water order for Chadbourn has been lifted. Asst. Town Manager Jerome Chestnut said repair on North Elm Street were completed. State-required tests came back Friday showing no contamination, s...
Drugs and paraphernalia were allegedly found in a Clarkton man’s car after he briefly fled from deputies Aug. 14, according to the sheriff’s office. Kameron Blake Quattlebaum, 21, of 69 Sab...