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By DEUCE NIVEN      Gunfire killed a Florida man visiting his girlfriend Saturday afternoon, Tabor City Police Chief Donald Dowless said.      Jermaine Rodrick Nelson Vickers, 30, of Brandon, Florida, was shot and killed on the front porch of his girlfriend’s School Street home at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dowless said. Dowless said the woman, who Vickers…

By DEUCE NIVEN      Local and state investigators are looking into the stabbing of a Correctional Officer at Columbus Correctional Institution (CCI) near the town of Brunswick, District Attorney Jon David said Friday.      A series of incidents at CCI including the stabbing of the Correctional Officer, an apparently unrelated violent assault on an inmate, and two…

     Columbus County Dixie Debs will be celebrated with a homecoming parade in Tabor City Monday afternoon on the heels of their World Series win in Alexandria, Louisiana Wednesday night.      Scheduled to begin at 4 p.m., the parade will begin on Hickman Road south of the downtown area, proceed through downtown, turning right on East 5th…

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…