Missing woman found ‘safe and unharmed’
Sunday update Wanda Faye Odum, the Chadbourn woman reported missing on Friday, has been located, Columbus County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Michelle Tatum said Sunday morning. “She is safe and unharmed,” Tatum said in a news release. Friday post A missing Chadbourn woman may be in danger, the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office reports. Wanda Faye Odum,…
Read MoreChild sex charges face Loris man in porn case, AG says
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Sexual exploitation of a minor charges are facing a Loris area man investigators say possessed child pornography, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said Friday. Aaron Paul Ferreira, 23, faces nine charges, including one count of sexual exploitation of a minor in the second degree, eight counts of sexual exploitation of…
Read MoreTC man held for Loris area burglaries
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Armed robbery, first degree burglary and related charges connected with weekend burglaries in Horry County area awaiting a Tabor City man in custody at the Columbus County Detention Center. Dock Raymond Ward, 41, of Green Sea Road in Tabor City was served with a fugitive warrant from Horry County on Friday,…
Read MoreTabor man charged in Horry carjacking murder
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com A Tabor City man is facing murder and other charges in last week’s carjacking and attempt and murder at the Food Lion in Longs, and is a suspect in a string of robberies that followed on both sides of the state line. James Laverne Bellamy, 47, was arrested by U.S. Marshals…
Read MoreFelony drug charges from mom a day after plea to child sex crimes
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com New drug charges were preferred Wednesday against a woman who a day earlier admitted guilt to sex crime charges involving her young twin children. Lindsey Danielle Honeycutt was arrested Tuesday night after deputies found her passed out in a vehicle just off of NC 904 east of Tabor City, Det. Barrett…
Read MoreOne arrest in fourth shots fired into home case
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com A suspect in one of three incidents involving gunfire into area homes last Thursday was hit by return fire from a resident and had been arrested. Edward Deron Riggins, 28, of Tillman Avenue, Tabor City was arrested Thursday, charged in the Thursday night shooting at a neighbor’s home, Columbus County Detention…
Read MoreSamuel B. Jordan: Conway
Samuel B. “Sam” Jordan of Conway passed away Tuesday, Aug. 21, at Embrace Hospice House. He was 90. Mr. Jordan was born in Horry County, a son of the late James Pinkney and Lettie Edge Jordan. He was a WWII and Korean War U.S. Navy Veteran and served on the USS Yellowstone during WWII and…
Read MoreLoria Ann Hall: Loris
1968 – 2018 Loria Ann Hall of Loris passed away Monday, Aug. 20. She was 50. Mrs. Hall was born in Kings Mountain, a daughter of Ronald Eugene Pickelsimer and Linda Rebecca Buchanan Skipper. She was predeceased by her step-father, Lewis Earl Skipper. Survivors include her husband, Travis Alan Hall of Loris; one son, Travis…
Read MoreTwo of four charged in child sex crime case plead guilty
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Two of four people charged in a Grand Strand child sex crimes case with ties to Tabor City have entered guilty pleas, 15th Circuit Solicitor Jimmy Richardson said Tuesday. Panteleimon Nicolas Spirakis, 57, of Myrtle Beach and Lindsey Honeycutt, 31, who showed addresses in Myrtle Beach and Tabor City when she…
Read MoreBobby Smallwood: Tabor City
1938 – 2018 Bobby Smallwood of Tabor City died Monday, Aug. 20, in his home. He was 79. Born Dec. 3, 1938 in Gainesboro, Tennessee, he was the son of the late Jim Smallwood and Mary Susan Smallwood. He is survived by his wife, Sara Alice Davis Smallwood of Tabor City; one daughter, Candice Marie…
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