Area News
Robbery, murder witness?
By DEUCE NIVEN Horry County Police released a photograph Monday of a man “who may have seen something that may help our investigation” into a Red Bluff store robbery and murder Friday night. That came as a community mourned and police continued their efforts to locate the men who robbed the Sunhouse convenience…
Read MoreNakina baby brings in the new year
Zoey Lynn McKeithan was the first baby born in Columbus County this year, making her New Year’s Day arrival at Columbus Regional Healthcare comfortably in the afternoon, weighing seven pounds, 15 ounces. Parents are Kayla Clewis and Jonathan McKeithan of Nakina. (CRHS photo)
Read MoreTeen dies a week after crash that claims his brother
By DEUCE NIVEN A pre-Christmas crash that claimed a Loris man riding with his younger brother claimed the teen on Tuesday, Horry County Coroner Robert Edge Jr. confirmed. Miles Waddell, 17 and a senior at Loris High School, died at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in Myrtle Beach a week after the Dec.…
Read MoreShootout follows state line store robbery
By DEUCE NIVEN An early morning armed robbery at a state line convenience store resulted in a shootout involving the bandit and a legally armed customer, Lt. Raul Denis of the Horry County Police Department said Monday. There were no shots fired inside the Time Saver on U.S. 701, and no one inside…
Read MoreRobbery suspect IDd on Facebook: HCPD
By DEUCE NIVEN An armed robbery victim says he and his wife were able to identify one suspect on Facebook, Lt. Raul Denis of the Horry County Police Department said Wednesday. His name omitted from the HCPD report released by Denis, the 24-year-old Tabor City resident told police that he stopped to assist…
Read MoreAttorney, ex-prosecutor charged with altering court documents
By DEUCE NIVEN A former prosecutor who has spent more than a decade defending others was arrested Tuesday, charged with committing a crime on behalf of one of those clients, a North Carolina Department of Public Safety news release said. Randy Lemay Cartrette, 40, who lives in the Roseland Community near Tabor City and…
Read MorePotential railroad buyer named
By DEUCE NIVEN Kentucky-based R.J. Corman Railroad Group is in talks to purchase the long-idled Carolina Southern Railroad (CSR) lines in Columbus, Horry and Marion counties, a leader in the effort to restore rail service has confirmed. “They are working on trying to identify and resolve a few remaining issues,” Interstate Railroad Committee…
Read MoreUPDATE: Two charged after crash that shuts down main TC intersection
UPDATE: 8 a.m. Drunk driving and hit-and-run charges were filed against a Longs man Tabor City police saw caused an early morning crash that left a large part of the Tabor City area in the dark early Friday, a much smaller section expected to remain without power for much of the day, Capt. Russell…
Read MoreTCI guard jailed in robbery, beheading plot
By DEUCE NIVEN Criminal conspiracy charges that involve a robbery plan veiled in a cloak of terrorism have been filed against a Nichols man who was working as a Corrections Officer at Tabor Correctional Institution, a federal complaint shows. David Lawrence Wallace Jr., 37, of Raft Street in the tiny eastern Marion County…
Read MoreUPDATE: Help sought to find family of pedestrian killed near Cherry Grove
By DEUCE NIVEN UPDATE: Nov. 30 Unable to locate any living relatives of a Fair Bluff area man killed while walking along a rural road near his home Thanksgiving night, Columbus County Assistant Coroner William Hannah has identified the man in hopes publicity will help find someone. Richard Lee Condon, 44, was walking…
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