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The driver of a pickup on N.C. 131 crossed the center line and became the county’s seventh highway death Wednesday. The male driver, whose name has not been released by the Highway Patrol, was killed in the 10 a.m. crash. The vehicle was heading south on N.C. 131 near Hog Wallow, just inside Columbus County, when for unknown reasons the truck crossed the centerline and went off the...
If Lt. Kenneth Smith is calling you from the sheriff’s office – hang up the phone. The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office is warning doctors in the area about a “failure to appear” scam that is making the rounds. The caller has no accent, and claims to be Kenneth Smith of the sheriff’s office. “He even gives a badge number,” said Michele Tatum, spokesperson for the sheriff’s office. “Sometimes...
Deputies investigated four different assaults Monday, including one where the victim ended up with a broken leg. Bruce Milligan was punched and kicked by someone he knows near Cerro Gordo Monday. Milligan suffered a broken leg. Two teenagers were charged under a juvenile petition after they kicked and assaulted Sherry Perez — their grandmother — on Gore Trailer Road, leaving her with injuries. The suspects in that case...