Public Safety

Changing names didn’t help a narcotics suspect Tuesday.  Vickey Lynn Huggins, 46, was charged with felony cocaine possession, drug paraphernalia and resisting an officer, according to detention center records. Her bond was set at $10,000. She gave her address as 6862 Hwy. 66, Loris. She was a passenger in a car driven by Ascension Mancio. The sheriff’s office reported that the couple pulled up to a traffic check...

Updated: 3:14 p.m. Corey Tashombe Hines was convicted of first degree murder this morning (Thursday) in Columbus County Superior Court. Superior Court Judge Tiffany Powers sentenced Hines to life without parole after the jury returned with a verdict around noon. The jury went into deliberations Wednesday, Assistant District Attorney Heath Nance said, then reconvened Thursday morning for just over an hour.  Hines, 25, shot and killed Elliot Dew...

It was a rude awakening for a Tabor City area man who took a nap after he and a second suspect allegedly broke into an outbuilding.  Shykem Lavonce Newman, 19, and Joseph Jarame Stephens, 20, were arrested early Monday after a call about a breaking and entering in progress, according to the sheriff’s office. The caller said no one had permission to be in the building at 261...