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Summer for many people means spending time with friends and family on the water boating, swimming, fishing or just being outdoors. Last August, the Carroll family and their friends were doing just that on Shearon Harris Lake in Chatham County. Some members of the group were cooling off in the water near their anchored boat when an alcohol‑impaired operator sped toward them. The propeller struck 10‑year‑old Brooklyn Carroll...
The procession escorting Columbus County Sheriff’s Deputy Damien Draper Bost brought the fallen deputy home to Columbus today (June 26) after an autopsy in Raleigh. A mile-long escort of law enforcement vehicles came down U.S. 74 to Cerro Gordo, then to Meares Final Home in Fair Bluff. Two CCSO patrol vehicles draped in mourning are on the front lawn of the funeral home. Bost, 29, died Thursday after...
Draper Bost loved children and being a law enforcement officer, Sheriff Bill Rogers said today (today) at a press conference about the deputy’s death. The School Resource Officer was killed when his patrol vehicle was struck by a tractor-trailer around 10:47 a.m. He was pronounced dead at Columbus Regional at 11:44 a.m., Rogers said. The driver of the truck, David Samuel McPherson of Clarkton, is being held on...