Friends mourn Terri Thompson ‘a life taken too soon’ after police say she was shot and killed | Fox Wilmington WSFX-TVAccessibility ToolsIncrease TextDecrease TextGrayscaleHigh ContrastNegative ContrastLight BackgroundLinks UnderlineReadable FontReset

Friends mourn Terri Thompson ‘a life taken too soon’ after police say she was shot and killed | Fox Wilmington WSFX-TVAccessibility ToolsIncrease TextDecrease TextGrayscaleHigh ContrastNegative ContrastLight BackgroundLinks UnderlineReadable FontReset

WHITEVILLE, N.C. (WECT) -52-year-old Anthony Sumpter remains in custody and is charged with murder. [Previous story: South Carolina man arrested in connection to fatal shooting in Whiteville on April 15.] Police believe he shot and killed Terri Thompson Tuesday at her home in Covey Run apartments in Whiteville. Now Thompson’s friends, including Leanlet and Jeanlet McMillian, remember her. Jeanlet and Leanlet are twin sisters who run a salon call…

Vandenberg’s interest in politics sparked by son’s run for MP | The IndependentAccessibility ToolsIncrease TextDecrease TextGrayscaleHigh ContrastNegative ContrastLight BackgroundLinks UnderlineReadable FontReset

Tara Jeffrey/The Independent It’s a damp and dreary Thursday morning in Petrolia, where George Vandenberg has joined a group of men who meet regularly at the Coffee Lodge. “George and I go way back, like 50 years,” says John McCharles, the town’s former mayor who invited Vandenberg to talk with farmers, seniors, some new, and old familiar faces ahead of…