Tue, 28 Jan 2020 | PREMIUM CONTENT

Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) announced that Sen. Danny Earl Britt, Jr. (R-Robeson) was appointed to five interim committees following the end of the 2019...

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 | PREMIUM CONTENT

Detectives are investigating the early morning robbery of a Riegelwood convenience store. The Scotchman store at 2192 Old Stage Highway was reportedly robbed by a...

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 | PREMIUM CONTENT

Columbus County Vice-Narcotics Officers have stayed busy since the start of the new year, with a new string of felony narcotics arrests in the past...

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 | PREMIUM CONTENT

About 60 people were in the audience for Monday’s public input meeting held at West Columbus High School by the Columbus County Board of Education....

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 | PREMIUM CONTENT

The Whiteville City Council’s meeting tonight (Tuesday) at 6:30 p.m. probably will be a short one if agenda materials prove to be an accurate predictor....

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 | PREMIUM CONTENT

Commissioner James Prevatte is awaiting a court date on charges of assault and battery. Prevatte, 68, is alleged to have repeatedly struck Aaron Billy Dark...

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 | PREMIUM CONTENT

Brian Williamson’s body was found in the Lumber River Monday morning, along the same stretch of the waterway where his father Charles drowned in 2018....

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 | PREMIUM CONTENT

Two people were airlifted after a car crash in Whiteville Saturday that tangled traffic on the U.S. 701 Bypass. A Chadbourn woman later died of...

Sun, 26 Jan 2020 | PREMIUM CONTENT

The county schools are “at a crossroads,” said Superintendent Deanne Meadows, and this week she will make her case for school consolidation, which she called...