Public Safety

Deputies are searching for the suspect who wounded a Riegelwood man while he was feeding his cats Saturday. Sherman Lewis Brown, 72, of Weyman Road, told deputies he was working in his yard when he heard someone shooting near his home around 11:30 a.m. When he bent over to fill a cat food dish, the report said, Brown “felt a very quick and sharp pain and then noticed...

A man is recovering after he was shot through the leg near Tabor City Friday. Deputies were called to 15 Ying Lane around 3:30 a.m. to a disturbance, sheriff’s reports said. While they were en route, the call was changed to a shooting. Deputies arrived to find Nigel Davon Mason, 22, on the ground with a gunshot wound to the leg. No one on the scene could describe...

Nestor Redono-Paloma will serve 20 to 29 years in prison for the rape and molestation of four of his minor children. Redono-Paloma, 43, pleaded guilty to ten felony sex charges in Columbus County Superior Court Monday. He will be required to register as a sex offender for the remainder of his life. His wife Reyna Pineda is awaiting trial on The abuse occurred in his Tabor City home...