By DEUCE NIVEN & JENN BOYD tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com tribjenn@tabor-loris.com      Dale’s Seafood, a landmark restaurant anchoring Tabor City’s most visible crossroads, was engulfed in fire early Friday.      “Dale’s Seafood is burning down,” Tabor City Fire Chief Hodges said.      Tommy Gore, an employee at McDonald’s across the highway from the seafood restaurant, provided video of the blaze.…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Jimmy Woodard Garrell, a Tabor City business leader known and beloved as JimmyG, the face of the TimeSaver and Cash & Dash convienience store chain, passed away Sunday June 10, at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in Myrtle Beach. He was 82.      “He’s going to be sorely missed in our community,…

Story & Photos By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A just graduated member of South Columbus High School’s Class of 2018 and an off duty Columbus County Sheriff’s Office deputy were involved in a serious auto collision in front of the school this morning.      That graduate was flown by AirReach helicopter from the school to Grand Strand…

     At least two counterfeit $100 bills have been passed in Loris recently, the Loris Chamber of Commerce is reporting.      Anderson Brothers Bank received the bogus bills from local businesses, prompting a warning from the chamber to local businesses.      “Please be aware that they are in circulation again and to be on the lookout,” the chamber…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Three Columbus County men have entered guilty pleas federal robbery and weapons charges that tie them to the killing of a Loris store owner and a separate armed robbery of a U.S. Post Office in Clarendon.      Those pleas do not include murder, a crime two of the three men initially faced.…