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Twelve educators — one from each campus in the Columbus County Schools system — have been honored as school-level teachers of the year and are now in the running for ...

I drove the length and breadth of North Carolina and most of the other Southern states. That was a time before computer ...

A Friday night shooting at a Whiteville apartment complex left one person dead and another critically injured, according to ...

Tabor City and Columbus County leaders hosted a groundbreaking ceremony last Friday at the Industrial Park. Funded by a state ...

About 80 people attended the dedication Friday morning of the Carver Community Center in Fair Bluff, including local ...

One man is dead and another critically injured following a Friday evening shooting at the Sawmill Apartments on West Hay ...

DY baseball and softball state tournaments were a mix of results for local teams.

Sixty-one candidates signed up to run for municipal office in Columbus County before the deadline to file at noon Friday.

President Bill Clinton spoke in Whiteville about bridging the rural-urban digital divide. “Everybody was excited,” recalled ...