The latest Columbus County sobriety checkpoint tallied 67 violations Friday night, including 13 drug offenses. The checkpoint was set up at the intersection of Princess Ann and N.C. 242 near Williamso...
One man was airlifted from Tabor City after he was stabbed in the head during a melee near Chadbourn Monday. Shikei Daniels, 24, was transported to New Hanover Regional. Daniels was a passenger in a c...
The operation involving Bladen and Columbus counties was the second meth trafficking investigation in a week. Three Bladen County residents are in jail after the second case involving crystal methamph...
An arrest has been made in a shooting where one man was wounded and a juvenile almost hit by gunfire in Whiteville. Christopher Jerome Taylor, 43, was arrested by Whiteville Police July 19 for a...
A joint operation between Whiteville Police, the sheriff’s office, and the State Bureau of Investigation jailed two alleged drug traffickers and pulled a quantity of narcotics off the street. Marion L...
Law enforcement turned out in force for a rainy, muddy manhunt after a suspect allegedly entered an elderly woman’s home Monday. Daniel Graham Hayes, 31, allegedly cut the telephone wires to the...
Eastern Columbus residents have fought for years for more patrols by the sheriff’s office, and Sheriff Jody Greene said Wednesday (today) that additional coverage is coming. Greene, Chief Deputy Aaron...
A Lumberton teen became the county’s twelfth highway fatality Monday, and a dump truck driver has been charged in his death. Matthew Sessoms, 18, died when his Toyota Scion was struck by a Depar...
The man charged with a February 2020 murder is back in jail after a drug arrest Saturday. Jadekiss Jaheim Watkins, 20, was arrested on Elwell Ferry Road in Council after a vehicle stop by members of t...
Town leaders discuss violence in Chadbourn Interim Town Manager Jerome Chestnut called on the citizens of Chadbourn to help fight the crime that has surged in the town in recent months. “We should be...
Three people were charged with trafficking in cocaine after more than a kilo of cocaine was seized in a traffic stop Friday. Lourdes Dixon, 56; Alexander Shellman, 60, and Hugo Nunez-Jaimes, 43, were ...
The District Attorney’s office released the names of the three people gunned down at a party in Chadbourn Saturday. Deonde Qwabe Sadler, 27; Mack Darren Jenkins Jr., 26 and Kameesha Daezhneka Powell, ...
BREAKING NEWS Chadbourn Police and the State Bureau of Investigation are on the scene of what may be the town’s first triple homicide. Interim Police Chief Ken Elliot said CPD was responding to a shot...
Alexis Kirt now faces charges in the hit and run fatality. Charges against Robert Bolick have been dropped. The Highway Patrol has charged a woman with the June 4 hit and run death of a farmworker in ...
An avid church member and former substitute teacher has died from injuries sustained in a traffic crash on U.S. 74-76 Wednesday. Bernice “Mickey” Little McKeithan, 90, was airlifted after a wreck near...
One man is in critical condition after a shooting Saturday night in Whiteville. Det. Sgt. Scott Moody said Whiteville Police were called to West Lewis Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard at 8:58 p...