Multiple cease and desist orders were served on operators of e-gaming machines in Columbus yesterday, according to the sheriff’s office. Sheriff Bill Rogers said in a press release that letters were s...
Gerson Brown will spend 300 to 420 months – up to 35 years – in prison after being found guilty of repeatedly raping a nine year old girl. Brown, 24, began abusing the girl when she was six in 2016, a...
Two familiar faces have new jobs in the Columbus County courts. District Court Judge Ashley Gore was invested as Superior Court Judge Monday in a special ceremony in Whiteville. Gore replaces Doug Sas...
Jeremiah Javonte Robinson turned 18 Monday, and was charged as an adult in the 2022 murder of Caron Robinson in Whiteville. Whiteville Police said Caron Robinson, 32, was found on West Burkhead Street...
Two single-vehicle wrecks this weekend claimed the lives of the drivers. In the first crash, a motorcyclist crossed the center line and struck a ditch, Trooper Trevor Bryan of the Highway Patrol said....
Major Brett Baxley has been dismissed by Columbus County Sheriff Bill Rogers. Baxley, a retired Highway Patrol Trooper, was originally hired in October 2022 by Sheriff Bill Rogers as an internal affa...
An overnight storm brought five to six inches of rain across much off the county Sunday night and early Monday. Meteorologist Christopher Cawley said six inches of rain fell at his weather station on ...
The sheriff’s office is investigating three assaults that were reported over the weekend. Randy Hayes was attacked at his home on Kenneth Hayes Lane near Chadbourn during an argument over property, re...
Lightning struck a tree at Lake Waccamaw Wednesday, breaking windows, damaging a fence and leaving a man with a serious head injury. The initial emergency call just after 4:30 p.m. said a victim had b...
Deputies were forced to break through a door on a Five Points home Tuesday after a woman refused to surrender on outstanding charges. Renee Michelle McKinnies, 28, was charged with resisting an office...
A Lumberton area woman was jailed Tuesday after allegedly using a trashcan to attack a sheriff’s office patrol car. Hannah Locklear, 39, of Virgie Road, was held under $2,500 secured bond, according t...
A Georgia man was issued multiple citations Friday after he was stopped for a window tint violation, and found with a concealed handgun, a large quantity of male enhancement drugs and steroids in his...
Columbus County Deputy Ricky Lewis is the newest graduate of the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Effort) Officer Training Program. Lewis completed the course at the N.C. Justice Academy in Salemburg, atte...
The man found dead at a Cemetery Road home Friday morning was apparently murdered, according to the sheriff’s office. Tracey Taylor, whose age was not listed, was found dead by a deputy investigating ...
The sheriff’s office and Whiteville Police are investigating two unexplained deaths. A body was found at 6:32 a.m. in the 800 block of Cemetery Road in Riegelwood, the sheriff’s office reported. No ad...
Firefighters from across Columbus County are battling a structure fire in downtown Fair Bluff. The fire appears to be in at least one of the flood-ravaged buildings that is set for demolition as part ...