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Detectives are investigating after more than $4,125 of corn was destroyed near Whiteville. The victim contacted the sheriff’s office June 12 after discovering the damage. Approximately three acres of unharvested corn was damaged and destroyed, the report said. The investigation is continuing.
A necropsy is being performed on the alligator that attacked and injured a girl at Lake Waccamaw Friday. Sgt. Matt Criscoe of the Wildlife Resources Commission said the girl will recover. The incident is the first documented case of an alligator attacking a human at Lake Waccamaw in decades. The girl was playing in the water with a number of other children at a home on Waccamaw Shores...
A former member of the Bladen County Board of Education who nows lives in Columbus is facing charges of child sexual abuse in Columbus and Bladen counties. Keith Edward Locklear, 35, of Canyon Road, Clarendon, turned himself in Thursday and was released on $20,000 secured bond, pending a court appearance today (June 16). He faces four charges of indecent liberties with a minor, two charges of sexual battery,...