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A walk-through metal detector saw its first use at the Tabor City District Court Building Friday, about three weeks after Tabor City Council approved the $4,000 purchase. Columbus County Sheriff’s deputies are responsible for operating the machine. “I am very grateful to the town for providing this extra security as well as all the other…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Thursday update Horry County Schools will operate on its regular schedule today. Columbus County District Court will begin at 11 a.m., Superior Court will operate on its regular schedule. Wednesday     While ice and snowfall accumulation probabilities continue to appear light in the Tabor-Loris Community and surrounding areas tonight, frigid temperatures…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Winter weather in the form of snow or worse is expected to have a big impact on a large swath of the Carolinas Wednesday, but will apparently bring just rain to the Tabor-Loris Community, an afternoon advisory from the National Weather Service says.      Impacts “far inland” will include a wintery mix…

Tuesday      Safe and sound, a man reported missing from the Tabor City Monday night was located more than 120 miles away Tuesday morning.      Police in Pageland found Donald Wilbur Dean, 84, Tuesday morning, a spokesman said, his family picking him up and returning him to his Lester Watts Road home east of Tabor City.      A…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Tuesday A Clarendon man facing a murder charge in Horry County surrendered at the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office Tuesday. Quotase Jenrette, 20, will be charged with murder in the Jan. 6 shooting of Kendall Jamar Ray. Friday     Police are on the hunt for a Clarendon man who will be charged…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A “forensic development” in a seven-year-old Green Sea area murder has resulted a murder warrant for a Chadbourn man.      Andre Wiley Davis, 44, of Graham Street in Chadbourn was arrested by  the U.S. Marshal’s Task Force and jailed at the Columbus County Detention Center nearly a month ago, on Dec. 14,…

     Federal Assistance to Firefighter grants totaling more than $1 million have provided for two new 3,000 gallon tanker trucks for the Tabor City Fire Department and a pumper for the Loris Fire Department, with the new Rosenbauer trucks arriving early in this new year.      Replacing two substandard tankers, the new Tabor City trucks have been…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Freezing weather is blamed for a “major interior water pipe break” at Loris Garden Apartments Sunday afternoon.      All 39 occupants of the facility on Suggs Street have been relocated to shelter locations at Palmetto Way Community Center or with family members, Lt. Robert Rudelitch of the Loris Fire Department said.      A…

Sunday      Both the Columbus and Horry County school districts will operate on a two-hour delay for students Monday, officials from those systems announced Sunday afternoon.      Buses will also run two hours late, the delay blamed on “numerous, icy patches remaining on many secondary roads and side streets,” an Horry County schools announcement said.      Students and…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Thursday All McLeod clinics and physicians offices in Horry County, and McLeod Primary Care in Tabor City remain closed today, with most expected to reopen at 11 a.m. Friday . McLeod Telehealth is available 24/7 here. Southeastern Community College is closed today. All Horry County government offices, including all Horry County…