Ten people, five children excape injury as gunfire hits home near Tabor City
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Ten people, including five children, escaped injury when gunfire struck a Clay Estates Drive home near Tabor City early Tuesday, a Columbus County Sheriff’s Office report said. Deputies were called to the home about 4:40 a.m. after residents reported hearing gunfire that woke them from their sleep, sheriff’s spokeswoman Michelle Tatum…
Read MoreGovernor says Matthew relief coming to Fair Bluff, but can’t say when
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Help is coming “soon” to hundreds of Fair Bluff area residents displaced by Hurricane Matthew nearly two years ago, Gov. Roy Cooper said during a visit to the town Monday. Pressed repeatedly to be more specific during a news conference held inside a disaster recovery center opened just recently downtown, Gov.…
Read MoreAnn Shelby Stephens: Tabor City
1935 – 2018 Ann Shelby Stephens of the Iron Hill community of Tabor City died Friday, Aug. 3 at her home. She was 83. Surviving to cherish her memory is her husband, Lawrence Stephens; one son Darius Thomas. Funeral services were held 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10, at Little Iron Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Tabor…
Read MoreLois Inez Norris: Tabor City
1933 – 2018 Lois Inez Norris of Tabor City died Friday, Aug. 10, in her home. She was 85. Born Jan. 24, 1933 in Horry County, she was the daughter of the late Richard Soles and Blanche Grainger Soles and the widow of Floyd D. Norris. She is survived by a daughter, Judy Norris Powell…
Read MoreDorothy Sarvis: Chadbourn
1932 – 2018 Dorothy Sarvis of Chadbourn died Thursday, August 9, 2018, in Liberty Commons, Whiteville. She was 86. Born May 29, 1932 in Horry County, she was the daughter of the late Hugh Sarvis and Lula Jane Fowler Sarvis. She is survived by four daughters, Helen Gale Guzman of Moncks Corner, Nancy Bullard and…
Read MorePearl R. Tyler: Loris
1942 – 2018 Pearl R. Tyler of Loris passed away Wednesday, August 8. She was 76. Mrs. Tyler was born in Horry County, a daughter of the late James and Myrtis Ray. She was a member of Cane Branch Baptist Church where she taught Sunday School for many years until her illness. Mrs. Tyler was…
Read MoreNC 905 at fatal crash site closed until Friday
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Thursday afternoon update A section of NC 905 south of Nakina, closed following a gasoline tanker truck crash and fiery explosion Wednesday night, will not re-open until sometime Friday. NC Department of Transportation Engineer Kenneth L. Clark, in a memo to the DOT’s Public Information office, said the environmental clean-up at…
Read MoreChadbourn Middle School closing approved
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Chadbourn Middle School is closing, its students to attend Evergreen Elementary School in the academic year that begins Aug. 27, the Columbus County Board of Education agreed Monday. Board member Worley Edwards made the motion, Monte Herring offering a second, both saying their decision came “with a heavy heart.” Board member…
Read MoreDo you know this school break-in suspect?
By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com A June break-in at Evergreen Elementary School left investigators with good surveillance images of a suspect, but they have not yet been able to identify the man. That man entered the building on June 23, left after midnight on the 24th, taking a taxi to the Chester Street area in Myrtle…
Read MoreTamika Ann Mangum Stevens: Whiteville
1952 – 2018 Tamika Ann Mangum Stevens of Whiteville passed away on Sunday, Aug. 5, at Lower Cape Fear Hospice Angel House following an illness. She was 66. Mrs. Stevens was born on Jan. 2, 1952 in Wilmington, daughter of the late, Lewis H. Mangum and the late, Geneva Ann Mangum. Mrs. Stevens was a homemaker.…
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