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An early morning structure fire required equipment and personnel from eight fire departments Sunday morning (today). North Whiteville VFD was called to the home on U.S. 701 Business near the county complex around 6 a.m. Brunswick, Whiteville, Chadbourn, White Marsh, Hallsboro, Tabor City and Williams Township were called to assist. Tabor City and Williams supplied large tankers, and ladder trucks came from Hallsboro and Brunswick. The road between...
Jury selection begins next week in the brutal 2023 slaying of a Tabor City area woman. Brandon Wayne Mincey, 44, was indicted by a grand jury for the first degree murder of Alissa Lee. The victim’s body was found under Heartbeat Bridge in Nakina on April 25, 2023. Mincey was originally charged with being an accessory after the fact. The warrant showed that he “did knowingly assist (Lisa...
Dangerously dry conditions continue here in Columbus County, although some areas have received a little bit of relief. The State Drought Monitor released Thursday shows most of Columbus in the extreme drought category. The far western portion of the county is listed as suffering from severe drought. Locally, rainfall deficits from 8 to 12 inches are combining with last year’s shortage to make matters worse. A number of...