Area News

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…

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…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Help from the public is being sought in connection with two Sunday night burglaries in the Loris area, Capt. John Harrelson of the Horry County Police Department said.      A man captured in surveillance video is wanted for questioning as a “person of interest” in the burglaries at the Sunny Stop at…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Fire heavily damaged the home of Jerry and Shirley Cribb in the Sidney Community Friday afternoon.      Williams Township Firefighters arriving at the home on James B. White Hwy South just north of Peacock Road found smoke pouring from the eves of the old, single-story wooden structure.      Jerry Cribb said he and…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Friday update      A former New Jersery resident living in Horry County for about 18 months has been identified as the man killed during a robbery attempt and carjacking in Longs Wednesday night.      Gerard “Jerry” Celentano died of a gunshot wound in the parking lot of the Food Lion on SC 9…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A locked door at the United Community Bank in Green Sea stopped an apparent armed robbery attempt in its tracks Wednesday, Capt. John Harrelson of the Horry County Police Department said.      Two men armed with long guns arrived at the bank branch at 5264 Hwy. 9, attempted to enter the bank,…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Gunfire into three area homes early Wednesday left one woman with a bullet wound, others shaken, the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office gathering evidence and looking for suspects, agency reports say.      Shootings into homes were reported at 13:39 a.m. on Godwin Trail, Chadbourn, just north of Clarendon; at 12:53 a.m. on Billy…

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…

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.…

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…