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Detectives have charged a man with multiple counts of having sex with a minor over an extended period of time. Daniel Cox, 35, is being held without bond in the county detention center. Warrants and jail records show he is charged with multiple counts of statutory sex offense, second degree forcible sex offense, intentional child abuse inflicting serious injury, and sex act by a substitute parent. He was...
1 p.m. Saturday update Columbuscountynews.com will update this list of closures and delays as new information come in. Send your schedule changes for churches, vici groups, businesses and others to CCN.CFaircloth@gmail.com or CCN.JWeaver@gmail.com. First Presbyterian Church in Whiteville will have online services Sunday at 11 a.m. Stream on their Facebook and YouTube pages. All outpatient services at Columbus Regional are cancelled Monday. Patients will be called with a...
Officials and residents across Columbus are bracing for yet another round of winter weather, and this one appears to be targeting areas missed by last week’s storms. Potentially heavy snow, 20 mile-per-hour winds and zero-degree windchills led the National Weather Service to issue a Winter Storm Watch for the southeast this morning (Thursday) to go into effect Friday. Conditions are expected to deteriorate Friday night, with a possible...