Grants are available from the state to help with local animal shelters. The Animal Welfare Section of the Veterinary Division of the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is accepting a...
A Duplin County man who kidnapped his estranged wife and killed another man will spend 27 to 34 years in prison. Demecus McMillan, 29, was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Tiffany Powers Monday in B...
Chancy Askew will not face the death penalty for the 2018 killing of Trooper Kevin Conner. Askew entered a guilty plea today in Brunswick County Superior Court as testimony began in his trial for the ...
Multiple sex charges sent a Chadbourn-area woman to jail Thursday. Tiffany Charmin Norris, 35, of 1455 Shade Fisher Rd., was arrested after an investigation by the sheriff’s office. Warrants show she ...
Families First hopes a Thursday event will bring more awareness to stalking. “Making the Invisible Visible” is from 6-8 p.m. at San Jose Restaurant in Whiteville. The bar outreach event will feature i...
Deputies were called to a Sam Potts Road home Friday after a man accidentally shot himself. Robert Marvin Hinson, 77, was shot while answering the door just after 9 p.m., the sheriff’s office said. Hi...
Parents and staff spent several tense minutes Friday after a report of possible violence at an area school. The sheriff’s office said the case was “unfounded.” Deputies were called to the West Columbu...
The N.C. State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) Human Trafficking Unit (HTU) has been awarded a $9.6 million grant over the next five years from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, an organization dedicate...
Two gunmen allegedly blocked their victim in, riddled his car with bullets and fled the scene Saturday near Tabor City. Billy Lenny McCovers, 24, told deputies he was driving down Miller Road when a v...
The North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts (NCAOC) on Friday announced additional go-live plans for counties transitioning from paper files to Enterprise Justice (Odyssey), the state’...
Updated information. Whiteville Police have made their third unrelated arrest in less than a month on child sex offense charges. Devon Michael Bishop, 40, was arrested today (Jan. 10). He is being hel...
Duke Progress and both electric co-operatives serving Columbus County have crews on standby as severe storms cross the area today. Brunswick and Four County EMC have both upgraded their infrastructur...
Contractors have closed a section of an eastern Columbus highway for the construction of a bridge as part of an interchange project. The portion of N.C. 11 between Salter Road and N.C. 87 is closing ...
Officials halted the West Columbus-Whiteville basketball game Friday night after a “disturbance “ caused a panic at the WCHS gym. The game was later completed with no spectators, with the Vikings topp...
It took a specialized craze to lift a BMW convertible from its illegal but locally famous parking place on the Cape Fear River Bridge in Elizabethtown Wednesday. Department of Transportation spokesma...
An accidental shooting led to the discovery of marijuana plants, a quantity of drugs and firearms Saturday. The incident occurred just before midnight in a home on Swamp Fox Highway West. Augustine Fr...