Public Safety

A Whiteville youth previously convicted of firing into a home is facing new felonies. Notorious D. Taylor, 17, of 402 W. Lewis St., Whiteville, has been charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, maintaining a dwelling for drug activities, possession of a weapon of mass destruction, possession of a firearm by a felon, and manufacture, sale, distribution or possession of drugs within 1,000 feet of...

Keyonte Poole will spend the next 480 to 600 months – 40 to 50 years – in prison for the brutal murders of Robbie Hildreth and Sean Burke in Bladen County. Poole pleaded guilty to two counts of second degree murder in Bladen County Superior Court today (Wednesday) in a hearing that lasted around an hour. Chief Asst. District Attorney Allan Adams told the court that Poole and...

Two teenagers escaped injury in a shooting Sunday, but investigators are not sure where the shooting actually occurred. The sheriff’s office reported that deputies were called to Fries Bay and Wright roads around 5:23 p.m. to assist Horry County Police. The 19 and 16 year old male victims told an Horry County Police officer that a red Dodge Charger with “blacked out windows” began following them on Wright...