CRIME & SAFETY
Sheriff’s office: Chase that reached speeds of 130 mph ends with two arrested in Columbus County
COLUMBUS COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - A chase in Columbus County that reached speeds of 130 mph ended with a man from Whiteville and another from Elizabethtown being taken into custody, according to the sheriff’s office. Per a Columbus County Sheriff’s Office report, on Monday, April 22, deputies observed the...
Maple Hill man arrested following over 90 break-ins
BLADEN COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - A Maple Hill man has been taken into custody in Bladen County following a long string of breaking and entering cases. According to the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office, 40-year-old Joseph Clark Jr. is linked to more than:. 30 breaking and entering into motor vehicle...
Future State Trooper: will of a warrior – heart of a poet
ELIZABETHTOWN – A country girl with a roundball in one hand and a guitar slung over her shoulder ambled into Bladen County and performed at the Barefoot Sandwich Shoppe Friday concert series. Brittany Blackburn who hails from Clinton, North Carolina and is known above the Bladen/Sampson line as a...
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