Public Safety

A female infant has died after being airlifted to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center with what investigators called “extreme abuse.” The sheriff’s office was contacted by the Department of Social Services Friday after the unresponsive infant was taken by EMS to Columbus Regional, according to a report. The child was in cardiac arrest when she arrived at the hospital. X-rays showed a “two to three weeks old” broken...

A Farmers Union man is dead and another is recovering after they apparently shot each other Saturday night in Farmers Union. Harry Hardie Jr., 37, was dead on the scene when deputies arrived at 126 Timber Creek Trail just before 10 p.m., according to the report by Sgt. J. Dicicco. Anthony Lee Jr., 31, was transported to an area hospital. Deputies were called to a report of a...

The driver of a box truck has died after he was impaled on a tree trunk Wednesday. Acme Delco Riegelwood Fire Rescue Chief Steve Camlin said a logging truck was turning off N.C. 87 into the Riegelwood plant when it was rear-ended by the panel truck. A three-inch log shattered the panel truck’s windshield and went through the drive’s abdomen. Extrication crews from ADR Fire had to cut...