Updated 11 a.m. Nov. 21 A teacher at Thomas Academy is being held under no bond on child sex charges. Jody Watts, 49, was arrested today (Wednesday) and booked into the county detention center at 10:5...
Attempted murder and maiming charges have been filed against a Bladen County woman who allegedly stabbed a man with a screwdriver, and chewed off part of his nose. Sandra Lynette Davis, 53, of Fayette...
Multiple homes were hit in an apparent drive-by shooting near Tabor City Monday night. The sheriff’s office reported that Dep. D. Hilburn responded to the call after at least three homes were shot Mon...
A teenager was struck in the face with an axe Monday while defending his stepmother. Warrants have been issued for the male suspect in the case. Patrick Gatlin, 39, a black male, is wanted for assault...
Corey Robert Heckler of Bladenboro has been charged with felony statutory rape of a child. The Bladen Sheriff’s Office said Heckler was arrested after a parent of a juvenile found inappropriate materi...
An altercation involving as many as ten people devolved into gunfire near Tabor City Sunday. No one was injured in the incident, the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies were called to the ...
Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the life sentence for a convicted murderer from Robeson County. George Lesane, 47, has served 30 years in prison for killing Larry McCormick. In addition to earning his GE...
State officials say 283 more DNA matches have been verified during this fiscal year, allow investigators more evidence to track and solve crimes. In October, the State Crime Lab uploaded 1,183 samples...
A woman is being held under no bond after allegedly striking a road worker with her vehicle and fleeing the scene. Chloe Sagendorf, 27, was charged with felony hit and run resulting in death, felony d...
An investigation by county Vice Narcotics detectives and the Patrol Division led to the arrest of two armed felons who were manufacturing marijuana, according to the sheriff’s office. Dustin Randall D...
A Clarkton area man will serve 11 to 14 years in prison after assaulting and attempting to immolate his father. In Bladen County Superior court Tuesday (Nov. 12), Kirby Elkins entered guilty pleas to...
Whiteville Police Chief Douglas Ipock announced Tuesday that he will retire next year. “It’s hard,” Ipock told the city council. “You have become my family.” The Craven County native came to Whitevill...
Two men were airlifted after a collision between a tractor trailer and a farm truck Tuesday. Trooper Hernandez of the Highway Patrol said the wreck on Old 76 at Porter Swamp happened when a truckload ...
A Southport man caught attempting to have sex with a child will spend 30 years in prison, the district attorney’s office said. Clayton Eagle entered a guilty plea today (Nov. 12) to ten counts of stat...
Former Sheriff Lewis Hatcher and his family escaped injury Thursday after someone fired multiple rounds at his home. Hatcher, his wife and nephew were inside the home at Pridgen Acres near Clarkton wh...
The driver who left the scene of an early morning fatality in Fair Bluff will not be charged. Entrell Moore, 20, of Tabor City thought he had struck an animal in the roadway at Elm and Academy streets...