The News Reporter

01/11/2025

📸 🏆 Best of Columbus winners and runners up were all smiles celebrating their honors and picking up their certificates.

📲 SLIDESHOW

Winners and runners up from the 2024 Best of Columbus came by The News Reporter on Thursday to celebrate their wins and pick up certificates.

01/10/2025

“This reckless shootout, adjacent to T-ball fields where hundreds of kids and parents were playing, left a pregnant woman shot and enduring an emergency C-section to save her baby,” said Michael F. Easley Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

A Whiteville man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for his part in a shootout that sent children and adults running for cover at Whiteville’s recreational ballfields.

01/10/2025

A former Columbus County Schools administrator who left after one school year amid a legal dispute is now teaching at N.C. Agricultural and Technical State University.

01/10/2025

With a winter weather advisory issued for Columbus County, local school districts have shortened the school day Friday.

With a winter weather advisory issued for Columbus and adjacent counties, local school districts have shortened the school day Friday.

01/09/2025

The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has fined a now-closed discount store in Whiteville for overcharging its customers.

01/09/2025

A series of personnel changes is underway at the Columbus County department that oversees emergency services.

01/09/2025

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🇺🇸 We are providing this service because the U.S. Postal Service is not delivering mail today due to the National Day of Mourning for President Jimmy Carter. This means our print and all-access subscribers won't receive their mailed newspapers until Friday.

01/08/2025

Delays announced for local schools.

Schools in the Columbus County and Whiteville City systems will operate on a two-hour delay Thursday, Jan. 9, due to wind chills expected in the teens.

01/08/2025

To fight crime in the 21st century, “You’ve got to embrace the technology — and it works,” said Chadbourn Police Chief Ken Elliott.

Criminal activity in Chadbourn dropped double-digit percentage points last year compared to 2023, according to the police department.

01/08/2025

Former Whiteville High School head baseball coach Turner Brown has been hired as an assistant baseball coach at Jacksonville University, a private university in Jacksonville, Florida. The university had an

01/07/2025

The last day of 2024 marked the end of an era for a longtime radio station in Columbus County.

01/07/2025

The Columbus County Board of Commissioners honored Glenn C. McPherson Monday as county government’s employee of the year.

01/07/2025

The East Columbus High School Athletic Department has honored former student-athlete Karli Godwin by retiring her No.14 softball jersey. The ceremony took place at halftime of the varsity girls’ basketball

01/07/2025

A former chief academic officer at Southeastern Community College and his wife have funded an award to honor SCC faculty and instructional staff.

A former vice president for academic affairs at Southeastern Community College and his wife have funded an award to honor SCC faculty and instructional staff.

01/06/2025

A look inside one of Whiteville's newest stores: “You never know” what items will be on the shelf at Bargain Snatchers, owner Laura Wood says.

“You never know” what items will be on the shelf at Bargain Snatchers in Whiteville, owner Laura Wood said. She modeled the store, which opened in December, after a discount

01/06/2025

The News Reporter has updated this story with additional information from the N.C. State Highway Patrol.

A Monday morning wreck claimed the life of a Clarendon woman.

01/06/2025

The U.S. Postal Service won’t provide regular mail services Thursday in observance of former President Jimmy Carter’s death.