Bill Kirby Jr.: 'I knew he was special,' governor pays tribute to fallen state trooper
TABOR CITY – Gov. Roy Cooper was remembering when he toured Columbus County in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, where towns and communities from Whiteville, Chadbourn, Evergreen, Boardman and Tabor City saw their share of flooding, power outages and wind-blown damage.And there, the governor says, he met Kevin Conner, a state highway patrolman.“I met Trooper Conner when I was in Columbus County dealing with the impacts of Hurricane Florence,” Cooper, 61, was […]
