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By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A fourth death in Horry County resulting from complications from the coronavirus COVID-19 was reported by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) Thursday as the fourth confirmed case of the disease was reported by the Columbus County Health Department.      This post will cover these topics: Fourth COVID-19…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Thomas Riggins isn’t likely to forget his 37th birthday.      Same goes for the woman he pulled from a burning car sideways in a canal east of Tabor City early Saturday, though her toddler son likely has no idea of what might have been.      Riggins, days later, said it was the grace…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A curfew effective at 10 tonight for unincorporated areas of Columbus County is an effort to “do what is best for our citizens during these trying times,” County Manager Mike Stephens said in an e-mailed statement today.      Responding to the challenges facing everyone as the coronavirus COVID-19 marches across America also…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Executive orders from governors in Columbia and Raleigh Tuesday will impact life in the Tabor-Loris Community (TLC), with non-essential businesses in South Carolina ordered to close effective Wednesday, a 60-day prohibition on utility cutoffs in North Carolina effective immediately.      Those orders came just ahead of the report of five additional COVID-19…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A 10 p.m. through 5 a.m. curfew begins Wednesday in Columbus County, two days after Gov. Henry McMaster closed beaches and waterways in South Carolina.       This post will cover these topics and will be updated: Curfew order and new restrictions for Columbus Fair Bluff curfew begins tonight Beach, waterway access…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A suspect in a January shooting that left a pregnant woman “gravely injured” on a Green Sea area roadway is in custody in Horry County, charged with attempted murder in a domestic violence case, the Horry County Police Department revealed Monday.      Dustin Anthony Butler, 34, of Forestbrook Road in Myrtle Beach,…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Two Columbus County residents are dead, and a search for a third involved in a two-boat collision on the Waccamaw River near Pireway late Sunday afternoon resumed this (Monday) morning, a N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission supervisor said.      Two boats came around “the same curve at the same time and collided,” Sgt.…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A third death resulting from the coronavirus COVID-19 was confirmed in Horry County Sunday, as Columbus County added one to its total of confirmed cases of the disease, now at three.      This post will be updated during the day and cover these topics: Third COVID-19 death in Horry Second COVID-19 death…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com       A second case of the coronavirus COVID-19 has been confirmed in Columbus County, just hours after the first.      This post will be updated during the day and cover these topics: Second COVID-19 in Columbus First COVID-19 case at CRHS Second COVID-19 in Columbus      A second case of COVID-19 in Columbus County…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A stay-at-home order in response to the coronavirus COVID-19 crisis was issued by Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday, effective at 5 p.m. Monday, with strong encouragement to comply now.      This post will cover these topics: Statewide stay-at-home order in NC Essential businesses Quarantine order for visitors to SC Visitors in Columbus…