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Developing story A man was shot to death in Sandyfield Tuesday evening after an argument at a Browntown Road home. Sheriff Bill Rogers said the victim and another man argued and the disagreement escalated into a killing. The victim was transported by private vehicle away from the scene and picked up by an ambulance. He reportedly died en route to the hospital. The sheriff’s office and State Bureau...
A shoplifter took $122 worth of very specific merchandise from the Whiteville Walgreen’s Saturday morning. Whiteville Police reported that the thief allegedly took a male fertility test, deodorant, Sudafed and lubricant. The theft was reported at 9:52 a.m. The suspect is described as a black male, approximately 5’8” tall, weighing 170 pounds.
Skilled scammers conned a local woman out of $61,000 May 16. The sheriff’s office reported that the woman responded to a pop-up message on her computer about a potential virus. She was given a number purporting to be from Apple Care to contact. “Upon calling the provided number,” a sheriff’s office spokesperson said, “she spoke with an individual who claimed her computer—and possibly her bank accounts—had been compromised.”...