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By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      UPDATE: Willie Lee Wheeler, 67, died after apparently being shot at his Lewis Street home in Tabor City Monday morning, Maj. Russell Conway of the Tabor City Police Department said Monday evening.      A “person of interest” has been identified in the shooting, and is being sought by law enforcement, Conway said.…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A pipe replacement project on NC 904 near Dulah Road, east of Tabor City, begins Monday and will include a detour that adds about five miles to the route, NC Department of Transportation officials said.      Signs mark the detour route, eastbound leaving NC 904 (Swamp Fox Hwy) onto Ramsey Ford Road,…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Speed was a factor in a deadly crash no a Tabor City street Thursday night, Maj. Russell Conway of the Tabor City Police Department said.      Kristina Jacobs, 27, of Seal Street, died before she could be freed from a 2006 Cadillac that slammed into a tree at the split between North…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A gunshot, not her leap from a moving car, killed a Whiteville woman in the Williams Township area two years ago, a Columbus County jury ruled Thursday.      William Jacoby Singletary, 31, of Hwy 410, Bladenboro, was convicted of second degree murder two years to the day after Monalisa McMillian, 19, of…

A much larger parade presence and what appeared to be double the number of vendors and crowd size as a year ago, Tabor City’s second annual Spring Has Sprung Festival was every bit as successful as Carolina Extreme Martial Arts student Noah Hart’s flip, with assistance from instructor and co-owner Keith Mercure. Tractors proved a…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Two Loris men have been charged in the January slaying of a Fayetteville merchant, the most recent last week.      Quinteel Pierre Harley, 34, and Rasheem Lopez Grant, 28, are both charged with first degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, possession of a firearm by felon, and felony conspiracy, Officer Jeremy…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Water and sewer fees for residential customers in Tabor City are going up effective May 1, action the Town Council was told Tuesday could prove pivotal in landing more than $11.4 million in grants to repair deficiencies in aging sewer lines and the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP).      Council also approved applications…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Nearly four years after his arrest on allegations of running a “pill mill” from his medical office in Tabor City, John Whan Kim was sentenced Thursday to serve 78 months in federal prison.      Kim, 75, was sentenced following a Dec. 28, 2021 guilty plea to charges of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute…

By JENN CAUSEY tribjenn@tabor-loris.com      Land with potential for a new City Hall or other municipal uses has been offered to the City of Loris, with City Council taking a cautious approach.      Barbara Taylor owns the nearly 2,950 square foot lot at 4126 Railroad Avenue, just across the street from City Hall, and has a buyer…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Tabor-Loris Community residents and some from Longs are among more than 30 drug traffickers indicted on a federal wiretap investigation into narcotics and violence who have pleaded guilty and been sentenced in federal court.      That announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina came less than 20…