A vehicle found stuck in mud on Leach Bryant Road in Clarkton, North Carolina, had a deceased woman in it, along with a 2-year-old and an intoxicated man, the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office says.

It was April 22 and after back-and-forth word missiles were being fired between the faction of Bladen County, Bladen’s Bloomin’ and the city of Elizabethtown, it was another frustrating week stuck ...