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By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A third arrest has been made in a November 2020 church yard shooting that left a Cumberland County man dead, his grandfather critically injured.      Christopher Jermaine Reaves, Jr., 22, was arrested Thursday night on East Institute Street in Chadbourn, and jailed without bond at the Columbus County Detention Center, jail records…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      While there have been no reports of animals lining up two-by-two, nearly incessant rains this week have forced several road closings in Columbus County, caused flooding in Horry that breached a Loris area pond, and has Fair Bluff Mayor Billy Hammond keeping a close eye on the Lumber River there.      “It’s…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A potentially dangerous scam involving COVID-19 vaccinations in Columbus County is being investigated as new deaths and cases continue there and in neighboring Horry, too.      This post will cover these topics and may be updated: COVID scam warning in Columbus New CC virus death, 55 cases since Tuesday Horry records 4…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A ‘scary’ decline in COVID-19 case activity in Columbus County, a sharp drop in associated deaths in Horry, comes as winter weather in much of the country threatens to delay vaccinations as early as this week.      This post will cover these topics and may be updated: Winter weather may delay vaccinations…

By JENN CAUSEY tribjenn@tabor-loris.com Friday afternoon update David Gordon Lynn, a Loris area resident, has been identified as the man killed during an alleged “road rage” confrontation that ended outside the Speedway convenience store in Loris Thursday evening. Lynn, 34, died of a single gunshot wound, Horry County Coroner Robert Edge said. Responding Loris Police…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      While the supply of COVID-19 vaccines remain tight, they are rising slowly, allowing North Carolina to make school workers eligible for those coveted shots beginning Feb. 24.      Meanwhile the uneven pace of coronavirus infections and deaths is noticeable locally, with five newly reported deaths in Columbus since Monday, a surge of…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Another COVID-19 vaccination clinic for those 65 and older is this week at Columbus Regional Healthcare in Whiteville, with the appointment window opening at 9 a.m. Wednesday.      Meanwhile, visitation restrictions are being eased slightly at the system’s flagship hospital and more coronavirus related deaths and infections are reported in Columbus and…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Robert Charles “R.C.” Soles Jr., who served 42 years in the North Carolina General Assembly before stepping away in 2010, has died. He was 86.      Soles died Friday at McLeod Loris hospital, an incomplete obituary posted by Inman Ward Funeral Home of Tabor City said. Soles had reportedly been taken by…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Just more than 13 years after the grisly discovery of Kathy Jean Jones Williamson’s body, found beaten to death in her Chadbourn area home, a New York man is in custody charged with that crime.      Curtis Tyrone Watson, 53, of Brooklyn, New York, was charged with murder, brought back from the…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      It’s been a deadly few two days related to COVID-19 in Columbus and Horry counties, with 17 residents claimed by the virus since Tuesday, the majority north of the state line though Horry has more than five times the population.      More than 400 coronavirus infections have been confirmed in the two…