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As tax season gets underway, the U.S. District Attorney’s office is reminding taxpayers to avoid problems by dealing only with reputable tax filing services. A Rocky Mount tax return preparer was sentenced to 50 months in prison Monday for conspiring to defraud the United States. Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Robert J. Higdon Jr. for the...
A careworker at a Lake Waccamaw care facility has been charged with exploiting a elderly person. April Nicole Bass, 34, was released on $6,000 unsecured bond on two charges of exploiting an elderly adult. Her address was listed on jail reports as 2002 S. Madison St., Whiteville. Bass is alleged to have used the ATM cards owned by two different residents of Premier Living at Lake Waccamaw, where...
UPDATED The fire that destroyed the Lewis Smith shopping center in Whiteville on Friday was set, City Fire Marshal Hal Lowder said. Lowder said he worked with State Bureau of Investigation arson specialists to determine that the fire was caused “by a person.“We can’t say for sure whether it was arson or an accident,” Lowder said. Firefighters were called to the Lewis Smith Shopping Center off Commerce Street...