Area News

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Could Tabor City be America’s next tourist train destination, tapping into millions of Grand Strand tourists via a hub on Conway’s scenic riverfront?      That’s the vision leaders in Tabor City have been exploring for two years, one that has captured the attention of others in Conway, earned federal funding for a…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com UPDATE/April 19      A Clarkton man has been identified as the Columbus County Detention Center inmate who apparently killed himself in custody last week, Columbus County Sheriff Lewis Hatcher said Monday.      Andrew James Ellis, 37, of Mercer Mill Road, Clarkton was arrested on April 16, three days before detention staff found him…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      An unidentified body has been located near Fair Bluff, Columbus County Sheriff Lewis Hatcher said Saturday.      The body was located in the 4000 block of Hinson Crossroads behind a tobacco barn on Friday, the sheriff said in a news release.      Identity and cause of death are pending autopsy,” the news release…

  By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Two residential break-ins have been cleared with two arrests and much of the stolen merchandise recovered, Columbus County Sheriff Lewis Hatcher said Friday.      Additional property believed stolen from Walmart in Whiteville was also recovered as part of the same investigation, Hatcher said in a news release.      Angel Elizabeth Strickland,…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      An early April shooting that resulted in the death of a Fair Bluff man a day later has resulted in an arrest, a warrant served by the State Bureau of Investigation shows.      Rykeem Obrian Tyler, 25, of EA Barnes Lane, Fair Bluff, was charged Tuesday, Columbus County Detention Center records show,…

     A significant water leak in the Courthouse Square area of Whiteville has forced the closing of the Columbus County Courthouse at noon today, with several Columbus County government offices in the area shutting down at 1 p.m.      Repairing the leak will take the remainder of the day, city officials estimated.      Columbus County…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Wednesday      Two inmates were stabbed inside state prisons in Columbus County on Wednesday, bringing to three the number of inmate-on-inmate assaults this week.      All three inmates have been treated at a hospital for their injuries and returned to their prisons, NC Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Sonja Bennett-Bellamy said Wednesday afternoon.…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Drug possession inside a prison charges were leveled against a Greensboro woman accused of concealing contraband inside her body at Tabor Correctional Institution.      Gladys Mae Davis, 46, was arrested after a tip led officers to her Saturday, Capt. Greg Sibbett of the Tabor City Police Department said.      Police recovered 30 grams…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Weapon and drug charges have been leveled against a Tabor City man found inside a “suspicious vehicle” earlier this week, Columbus County Sheriff Lewis Hatcher says.      Shonte Jarrel Hutchinson, 41, of Pine Circle Drive in Tabor City was arrested after Vice/Narcotics took over the investigation Tuesday, Hatcher said in a news…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Update      Zachary Jamaine Jordan, 18, of Hwy 746, Loris, was arrested by Loris police on Tuesday, booking records at J. Reuben Long Detention Center near Conway show.      Jordan was charged in Friday’s incident involving the Loris High School soccer team. He was charged with kidnapping, assault and battery in the second…