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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.…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Rev. James Pervis Jones, known by many simply as J.P. Jones, passed away Monday in Angel Care Hospice House in Whiteville following months of declining health. He was 93.      Born the first of ten children to a farm family near Fuquay-Varina on Oct. 20, 1924, Jones came to Columbus County in…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A break-in interrupted on Seal Street Saturday quickly became a foot pursuit with shots fired at police, Capt. Greg Sibbett of the Tabor City Police Department said.      One man who said he is from North Charleston is in custody, police on the hunt for a second suspect who eluded officers, Sibbett…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Embezzlement and other charges are facing Columbus County’s former Animal Control Director.      Joseph David “Joey” Prince, 51, of Wright Road, Tabor City, surrendered to investigators Wednesday, nine months resigning from the post he held for nearly two years, a news release from Columbus County Sheriff Lewis Hatcher said.      Prince was charged…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Generous salary increases for select City of Loris employees are included in a proposed budget for the year that begins July 1 that has been in the hands of City Council for two weeks.      A public hearing on the proposed $5.095 million spending plan is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Monday in…

     Editor’s note: A printer’s error resulted in some letters from one column in this editorial being lost in our print edition. As a result, we are providing the full editorial, here, for all of our readers.      We were, quite frankly, stunned two weeks ago when bids for a new garbage collection contract were opened during…

An apparent wrong turn while backing out of the dirt portion of Ed Ward Road at Lebanon Church Road left this Williams Township School bus stuck in a ditch, no one on board hurt, school officials on the scene said Monday afternoon. Some students left with parents, others were picked up by another bus to…

Rain forced an intersection dedication ceremony in memory of the late Horry County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Timothy Causey inside Green Sea Baptist Church Saturday. Family and friends of the deputy who died of a respiratory illness after working a 2013 apartment complex fire near Conway joined members of the “blue family” in the church sanctuary,…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A family dispute call evolved into the seizure of a methamphetamine lab and arrest of an area man Friday, Columbus County Sheriff Lewis Hatcher said Friday.      Johnathan Dwayne Huggins, 27, of Fair Bluff Road, Tabor City, was arrested after deputies discovered the methamphetamine lab in an outbuilding at a home at…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Fair Bluff Police Department officers making arrests following a vehicle pursuit “showed great restraint” taking a woman who said she was pregnant into custody, Chief Chris Chafin said Thursday.      A series of videos taken after police encountered Audrey Yvonne Tyler, 26, of East Barnes Lane were attached to this reporter’s Facebook…