Area Upfront News

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      A total of 11 people escaped injury, including five children from 1 to 6 years of age as gunshots hit three homes on or near Ten Mile Road near Tabor City Friday night, Columbus County Sheriff’s Office reports show.      Deputies were summoned first to a home in the 5400 block of…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Fire that began under a carport claimed a home and three vehicles in the Clarendon area early Thanksgiving morning.      Mark Turbeville said his wife Dixie woke about 4 a.m. and discovered the fire before smoke alarms in the home sounded.      All three occupants of the home escaped safely, including the Turbeville’s…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      State recognition will be given to a Fair Bluff Police Department officer for his role in the capture of suspects in the slaying of a local North Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper.      Cpl. Lee Hamilton Alsbrooks is to receive the Colonel’s Appreciation Award during a North Carolina State Highway Patrol Awards Ceremony…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Another day, another total in the race for Columbus County Sheriff, though the Republican challenger Jody Greene remains the winner.      Observers left a marathon two days of county Board of Elections meetings Friday in the belief, stated by chairman Harold Fipps, that the election had been certified, Greene with a 43…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Felony charges have been filed against a Columbus County 911 dispatcher, accused of stealing a portable public safety radio and “arranging to trade the radio for an iPhone 7.”      Donovan Ridel Jacobs, 32, of Freeman Road in Bolton, was arrested Sunday, the same day the sheriff’s office was notified of the…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com Friday 7:30 p.m. update      Jody Greene has won the race for Columbus County Sheriff, mixed beverage alcohol sales in restaurants and other businesses in Tabor City have passed, the Columbus County Board of Elections ruled during the formal canvas of the votes Friday evening.      Greene the Republican challenger for Sheriff, claimed…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Provisional ballots that could determine the outcome of the race for Columbus County sheriff and a decision on the legal sale of mixed drinks in Tabor City will be counted during a meeting of the Columbus County Board of Elections that begins at 11 a.m. Thursday.      That meeting had been scheduled…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      An inmate has been stabbed and killed at Columbus Correctional Institution (CCI) near the town of Brunswick, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety has confirmed.      Gregory Adams, Jr., 35, serving time for attempted murder in New Hanover County, was stabbed “in the neck area” just before 8 a.m. Friday, a…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com      Prosecutors will seek the death penalty in at least one of two men charged in the Oct. 17 murder of Master Trooper Kevin Conner of the North Carolina Highway Patrol, District Attorney Jon David announced Wednesday.      Chauncey Demez Lamar Askew, 18, of East Third Avenue in Chadbourn was indicted by a…

By DEUCE NIVEN tribdeuce@tabor-loris.com UPDATE: Wednesday      It’s too soon to for a victory toast in the highly competitive race for Columbus County Sheriff, or a very close vote on allowing the sale of mixed alcoholic beverages in Tabor City.      Provisional ballots that won’t be considered or counted for more than a week could sway the…