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NEBO – Tiffani Kirby had just tucked her youngest kids into bed Sunday night when her 11-year-old asked her if she could take a cardboard box to their collection for their woodstove.
Waynesville resident Lewis Easton Cantwell used his cellphone to record fellow rioters attacking law enforcement officers and yelled, “Get the door open!” as he stood with others at an entrance to the Capitol, according to court documents.
A necropsy is being conducted to determine how long it has been dead and a possible cause, park officials said.
Hundreds of people were rattled by an earthquake late Wednesday in the North Carolina mountains 100 miles west of Charlotte, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The ripple effect was felt at least 271 miles away, in the southeastern part of the state, officials say. It happened at 10:23 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, and registered as a 2.7 magnitude, which is considered mild. No damage was ...
Two North Carolina Democratic government lawyers have argued on competing sides at an appeals court in a case over whether the Wake County district attorney can prosecute Attorney General Josh Stein or others for a 2020 campaign commercial. Private attorneys for Stein and Wake District Attorney Lorrin Freeman met Tuesday before a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. At issue is a state law that makes certain political speech a crime. Stein's campaign ad criticized his then-Republican challenger for AG over untested rape kits. Stein and his allies say the 1931 law is unconstitutional and want the judges to block its enforcement.
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A man charged with driving while impaired in a Tuesday night crash that left a woman seriously injured has a history of driving while impaired charges.
HICKORY — A chop shop in the Hickory area of Burke County was busted last week by local and state authorities.
An 18-year-old landed a felony charge after a domestic dispute Wednesday night.
Police say a man stole an ambulance from a local hospital a little more than a week before his sister stole a woman’s car that was cranked in front of her apartment. It all started Nov. 18 when investigators say Zion Raheem Peterson, 23, got into the cab of an ambulance at UNC Health Blue Ri…
Family, friends and colleagues gathered Friday to celebrate retiring Clerk of Superior Court Mabel Lowman’s 47-year career in the clerk’s office. She’s served as the elected clerk since 1998.
The Morganton City Council's agenda for its Monday night meeting may be light, but it's not without potential development in the city.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s winter weather prep is going digital this year with a snow plow simulator designed to give employees more training time without getting behind the wheel of an actual vehicle.
Morganton is growing, and that growth isn’t coming without some pains.