Area News
UPDATE: 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…
Read MoreUPDATE: Arrest in Church Street wreck that claims Loris woman
By DEUCE NIVEN UPDATE: Dec. 2 Criminal charges were filed Tuesday in a pre-Thanksgiving crash that claimed the life of Loris resident Marva Edge, Loris Police Department Interim Chief Lt. Karen Shepherd said. Tyshawn Antwan Brown, 20, of Bryant Road, Sumpter, was charged with felony driving under the influence resulting in death, felony…
Read MoreUPDATE: Arrest in Church Street wreck that claims Loris woman
By DEUCE NIVEN UPDATE: Dec. 2 Criminal charges were filed Tuesday in a pre-Thanksgiving crash that claimed the life of Loris resident Marva Edge, Loris Police Department Interim Chief Lt. Karen Shepherd said. Tyshawn Antwan Brown, 20, of Bryant Road, Sumpter, was charged with felony driving under the influence resulting in death, felony…
Read MoreGirlfriend charged in TC stabbing
By DEUCE NIVEN A stabbing on Jesse Street Monday evening ended with a Chadbourn man in the hospital, his girlfriend from Loris in handcuffs, Capt. Russell Conway of the Tabor City Police Department said. Randy Perritte, 40, was stabbed in the chest during an altercation with Jennifer Ann Katzenberger, 32, just before 5:30…
Read MoreGuard brought drugs to inmate: TCPD
By DEUCE NIVEN A Correctional Officer left Tabor Correctional Institution in handcuffs Friday afternoon, charged with providing drugs to an inmate, Capt. Russell Conway of the Tabor City Police Department said. Sabrina Wallace, 42, of Cherry Grove Road, Cerro Gordo, was charged with one count of providing drugs to an inmate, booked at…
Read MoreAtlantic’s Fitbit winner has a Mini-Cooper
Larry Bellamy, a graphic artist at Atlantic Corporation’s Tabor City operations, was presented a new Mini-Cooper as the company concluded its second annual Fitbit wellness challenge Friday. Employees across the company had a healthy lunch ahead of the big reveal. Atlantic Wellness Coordinator Megan Criss took the first ride with Bellamy following the…
Read MoreRobbery, cutting reported in TC
By DEUCE NIVEN Officers are investigating reports from a local man who says he was cut during a robbery Thursday night, Det. Greg Sibbett of the Tabor City Police Department said Friday. Shyqjuan Montrel Hemingway, 21, of West 3rd Street, told police he was at the Evans Pointe Apartments complex about 9 p.m.…
Read MoreUnaffiliated voter rolls jump in Columbus
By DEUCE NIVEN Neither Republican, Democrat, nor member of any organized political party, the numbers of voters registered as unaffiliated in Columbus County is growing, rapidly this year, county Elections Supervisor Carla Strickland says. That’s important, Strickland told Columbus County Commissioners Monday, because only political parties can name precinct officers, though unaffiliated voters…
Read MoreOfficial now: Ed Worley Building
Ed Worley, (center), Columbus County’s long-serving former Department of Aging director, gave praise to God as the agency headquarters building war formally named in his honor Monday. A good crowd gathered, including Congressman Mike McIntyre, who was able to direct $450,000 in federal money to the project which otherwise might have never been…
Read MoreWarrants detail Loris murder charges, two more jailed
By DEUCE NIVEN Two more Loris teens have been charged in the shooting death of a Myrtle Beach man whose body was dumped off of Bennett Loop more than a week ago, Horry County Police Department and J. Reuben Long Detention Center records show. Michael Xavier Forti, 18 and Brittany Jean Woody, 19,…
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