Public Safety

One person died in a Sunday afternoon crash in North Whiteville. Patricia Best McKenzie, 80, of Bladenboro was a passenger in a Buick Enclave that turned into the path of another vehicle, according to Sgt. J. Morton of the N.C. Highway Patrol. Trooper Z. Faulk reported that the Enclave, operated by Avay Marie McKenzie of Durham, was headed north on Bill Hooks Road just after 6 p.m. Carl...

A local woman best known for her love of local history and family trees is trying to find a man who was kidnapped in 1988. Joanna Phillips was searching for the identity of a man whose remains were found in 1991 when she discovered the curious case of Joseph Leon Burris. Burris, 25, was forcibly taken from his home near Chadbourn on Nov. 20, 1988, and has never...

Bladen and Columbus deputies arrested a Clarkton-area man on charges that he fired multiple rounds into a White Oak home, endangering his own child. Cameron Brice McKoy, 26, of 111 Jasmine Lane, Clarkton, was arrested just before 1 a.m. today (June 24) and turned over to Bladen County. He faces charges of discharging a weapon into occupied property, three counts of property damage, and misdemeanor child abuse. He...