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Champions      North Carolina Champion Dixie Debs claimed their World Series title in Alexandria, Louisiana Wednesday night with a 5-2 victory over Tennessee in nine innings that followed a come-from-behind 6-5 win over the host team earlier in the evening.      Kelsey Carroll scored the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth on a sacrifice fly…

Debs take first loss      Fighting to the last out, the Dixie Debs from Columbus County suffered their first loss of their World Series in Louisiana Tuesday night, falling to a tough Tennessee team 10-6 in the semi-finals.      For the first time since the series began Saturday, the North Carolina champion Dixie Debs move to the…

Monday night      North Carolina Dixie Debs continue undefeated in World Series softball action in Louisiana with a 6-3 win eliminating that state’s champions Monday night.      With the win the squad from Columbus County will play Tennessee at 8:30 p.m. EDST Tuesday, continuing their quest for a World Series title. North Carolina is the only undefeated…

  Sunday night North Carolina cruised to a 9-1 win in a Carolinas battle in the third round of the Dixie Debs Softball World Series in Alexandria, Louisiana Sunday night. Undefeated in the series, the North Carolina champions from Columbus County takes on Louisiana in fourth round action at 8:30 p.m. EDST Monday. Sunday evening…

By DEUCE NIVEN      A good deed on a wreck scene was quickly punished with a carjacking at gunpoint this week, an Horry County Police Department report said.      No one was injured, and the good Samaritan forced to drive two men from the single-car crash on Hwy 348 east of Loris lost only his cell phone,…

With South Carolina hosting the Dixie Angels X-Play World Series starting this weekend, the North Carolina Champions South Columbus All-Stars are heading to Sumter today. Team members include (front, from left) Callie West, Carman Buck, Ja’Naya Frinks, Laney Nance, Olivia Watts, Jordyn Turbeville, Brileigh Ward, India Sammons, Payton Brooks, Greenley Hardee, Hannah Nobles, Riley Grice,…

By DEUCE NIVEN      A Loris area man has died after reportedly being shot early Thursday east of the city, the Horry County Police Department has reported.      William R. Simmons of Loris died about 6 a.m. as a result of the gunshot wound, Horry County Coroner Robert Edge Jr. said..      Police were summoned to the…

North Carolina champions Columbus County Dixie Debs are on the way to Louisiana for World Series play starting this weekend. Players and coaches preparing for the trip Thursday morning included, from left, Kailey Paul, coach Travis Paul, Morgan Nye, Kelsey Carroll, Callie Sumner, coach Gary Sykes, Alex Chestnutt, Linsey Jones, Lauren Smith. Not present were…

By DEUCE NIVEN      Dean Wayne Foley, a former Tabor City Police Department officer and law enforcement veteran most recently living near Whiteville, died Tuesday. He was 50.      Born in Warren, Ohio, Foley Grew up in the Loris area, attended Loris High School, and attended divinity school at Baptist College in Charleston.      He served the Tabor…

By DEUCE NIVEN      Gunfire and threats of violence prompted a standoff with Horry County Police in the Loris area that lasted seven hours, with a local man jailed and facing multiple charges early Monday.      Linford Onen McCormick, 59, was taken into custody with no one injured following the standoff at his home on Hwy 348…