Public Safety

A child was shot and injured Friday after someone opened fire on a home near Whiteville. The sheriff’s office is investigating three separate reports of gunfire damaging property over the weekend. Around 10:30 p.m. Friday, deputies were called to the 1800 block of Millie Christine Road, Whiteville. A woman and her boyfriend, along with three children, ages ten, nine and four, were in the home when an unknown...

A power outage may or may not have been caused by someone shooting a transformer Friday. Brunswick Electric Membership crews contacted the sheriff’s department after responding to a power outage at 17509 Peacock Road, according to a sheriff’s report. They discovered multiple bulletholes in the transformer and power pole. Deputies inspected the damage using binoculars, but the report said the holes “appeared to be old.” The report also...

Developing story A Whiteville High School student died and three other students were seriously injured in a crash  on Sunset Drive today, less than an hour after school was dismissed for the year. Multiple law enforcement and emergency units were called to the scene just after noon. Whiteville schools dismissed early due to the water outage in the city. Multiple first responders confirmed that one youth, a male,...