By DEUCE NIVEN & JENN BOYD      It’s commencement week for three area high schools, with 474 scheduled to receive diplomas in one ceremony already complete, others tonight (June 3) and Saturday morning.      Graduation in the Green Sea Floyds High School gym on Tuesday including 101 students scheduled to receive their diplomas after posing for their…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      There were no apparent injuries as an EMS crew checked passengers on a Williams Township School bus rear-ended by a pick-up truck just south of the campus Monday afternoon.      School officials said the bus was loaded. It was apparently stopped at its first drop-off point, just south of the campus, when…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      An apparently accidental house fire claimed the life of a bed-bound Tabor City woman Wednesday evening.      Sharon Jernigan, 64, died in the fire at 102 Shay Street, Chief Jeff Fowler of the Tabor City Fire Department said.      Fowler and other fire department leadership on the way back from a meeting in…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A robbery suspect who eluded capture while making his way through a significant stretch of Tabor City during nearly three days was in custody Tuesday evening, caught in a wooded area off of Canal Street, the focus of much of the search effort.      Christopher O’Neil Strickland, 44, was taken into custody…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      An explosive sound, “boom,” as described by employees next door at Twin City Motors, resulted in a fire that brought a heavy response to Tractor Supply from multiple agencies Wednesday afternoon.      That “boom” was followed by several smaller “booms,” the car lot employee said.      Heavy smoke billowed from the rear of…