Deputies say an employee at the Edgecombe County jail is out of a job after being romantically involved with an inmate and distributing contraband. The Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office says Taquita ...

Joshua Knox was shot and killed Jan. 15. Over the weekend, U.S. Marshals in Georgia arrested a Fayetteville man on a charge ...

BUNNLEVEL, N.C. (WTVD) -- One person is dead and another injured after deputies said they were shot during an altercation at a birthday party in Harnett County on Sunday. According to the Harnett ...

The Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Richland County, S.C., “fails to provide reasonable safety and to protect incarcerated people,” the department said in a news release. Staffing shortages ...

Investigators blame, in part, a chronic staff shortage going back at least five years that has impeded routine security checks at the Richland County jail and forced staff to monitor several units ...

The U.S. Department of Justice told the jail in Richland County, which includes South Carolina's capital of Columbia, that it must improve conditions as soon as possible — repairing holes in ...

A consensus among the Lee County commissioners is to begin taking steps toward construction of a new detention center. The informal decision was made during the annual retreat last week where the ...

The Harnett County Sheriff’s Office issued a missing person alert shortly after his disappearance. At the time, the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons said there was “significant ...

BUIES CREEK, N.C. (WNCN) – Crews from several agencies responded to what turned out to be a deadly house fire in Harnett County early Sunday morning. The fire was reported just after 1:55 a.m. Sunday ...

OHP AND NEW. AT 6:00, THE CLEVELAND COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS ANNOUNCED AN INMATE HAS DIED AT THE COUNTY JAIL. 27 YEAR OLD JACOB DIBBLE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AROUND 10:00 THIS MORNING. THE SHERIFF’S ...

DARLINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — A North Carolina couple died Wednesday in a three-vehicle crash on Highway 52 in the Dovesville area of Darlington County, Coroner JT Hardee said. William Tyler ...