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Columbus Moving to eCourt Systems in 2025

January 12, 2024

The North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts (NCAOC) on Friday announced additional go-live plans for counties transitioning from paper files to Enterprise Justice (Odyssey), the state’s cloud-hosted digital case management system, which currently serves Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Mecklenburg, and Wake counties. As announced Nov. 1, 2023, twelve northeastern counties that comprise Track 3 of the statewide upgrade to Enterprise Justice will go live on Feb. 5,  and Track 4 will include Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Guilford, Orange, Person, Vance, and Warren counties. Columbus...

Devon Bishop (CCSO)

January 10, 2024

Updated information. Whiteville Police have made their third unrelated arrest in less than a month on child sex offense charges. Devon Michael Bishop, 40, was arrested today (Jan. 10). He is being held under $100,000 secured bond, charged with ten counts each of second and third degree sexual exploitation of a minor. His address was listed as 104 S. Thompson St., Whiteville Warrants show that between July 2023...

National Weather service wind gusts

January 9, 2024

Duke Progress and both electric co-operatives serving Columbus County have crews on standby as severe storms cross the area today.  Brunswick and Four County EMC have both upgraded their infrastructure in the wake of hurricanes Matthew and Florence to be better prepared for severe storm conditions. BEMC has also buried more than half of its 7,000 miles of lines in recent years to prevent damage from trees and...

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