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Quick action by deputies with the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office saved the life of a man who collapsed in the courthouse annex Tuesday. First Sergeant Mary Wilkins and Deputy Darryl Hooker were performing bailiff duties in District Court on the third floor when they heard “urgent cries for help from the hallway,” according to a press release. They discovered an older male lying on the floor unresponsive. A...
Chadbourn Police have charged a woman with assaulting an officer and three counts of hit and run, resulting in serious injuries. Candy Herring Lee, 47, also known as Candy Lee, was held under $110,000 secured bond in the Wednesday incident, according to detention center reports. She was charged with three counts each of felony hit and run resulting in serious injury, hit and run resulting property damage, assaulting...
Prentiss Deshawn McDuffie was found guilty Tuesday and sentenced to three life sentences plus 207 months in prison for the 2019 slaying of Whiteville area family. McDuffie, 36, and Darius Washington went to the home of Leonel Noyola around 6 a.m. on Sept. 7, 2019, where they killed Noyola, his wife Nancy, and five year old son Alexis. They also wounded Noyola’s mother Rafaela. Washington was found guilty...