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UPDATED July 8 at 11:35 a.m. The Highway Patrol has identified the motorcyclist who died while trying to escape Columbus County deputies Monday evening. Colton Michael Newman, 20, of Fort Bragg, rammed into another vehicle at N.C. 87 and Kennedy Store Road at East Arcadia, just across the street the Bladen-Columbus line. The driver in the other vehicle was injured, and was transported to New Hanover Regional with...
Fireworks weren’t the only flames in the sky over the July 4 weekend in Columbus County. Firefighters in Riegelwood, Nakina and Tabor City responded to brush fires in several areas. Columbus County Fire Marshall Shannon Blackman said Tabor City firefighters were called to a particularly stubborn blaze at South Columbus High School that required the assistance of the Forest Service. That fire smoldered in a mulched area until...
A man was struck and killed Thursday near Council in Bladen County, and investigators have no information who he was or what hit him. First responders were called to the scene on N.C. 211 at 8:28 a.m., the Highway Patrol said. The individual was found dead near the eastbound lane. The vehicle that struck the man apparently left the area. Anyone with information on the possible identity of...