Albemarle News

Dec. 10 --Turnout for this year's Albemarle Downtown Christmas decreased significantly over years' past, but for some merchants that wasn't all bad news.

Beth Morris, left, and Laura Davis, nurse practitioners with North Carolina Heart & Vascular, talk with each other while entering patient orders electronically at Johnston Medical Center in Smithfield.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dec. 05--The Stanly County Board of Education voted to fill its vacant seat for District 7 during Tuesday night's scheduled meeting.

Camen is a neutered, 7-year-old whose adoption fee is 50 percent off to a 55-or-older adopter.

Verna Wall has been promoting No Ball Ball fundraiser for the SPCA of Northeastern North Carolina for the past 10 years.

Campus police arrested a North Carolina man last Thursday in the senior parking lot at Kennesaw Mountain High School who they say was armed with a semi-automatic rifle and pistol, hundreds of rounds of extra ammo and a 24-inch machete.

Edenton police are seeking information from anyone who may know the whereabouts of two local teens, 19-year-old Rob Bunch and 16-year-old Nick Beaman.

When she puts out a country album – “The Woman I Am” dropped last week – she fills it with songs “that I love, that I identified with, or that told a part of my life story.” When she commits to ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars,” she trains for 10 hours a day and wins the whole thing.

Suzanne Lineberger, 30, of Albemarle, was among two people charged in a burglary from a home in eastern Stanly County, according to the sheriff's office.

Police said Thursday morning they were continuing to look for the people responsible for a carjacking and shooting Wednesday afternoon in east Charlotte.

Albemarle police arrested a man accused of killing a local business owner on Halloween night.

Kellie Pickler laughs after giving a kiss on the cheek to Jase Kendrick, 4, of Lawndale at an autograph session at the Belmont Wal-mart on Thursday.

Just after noon, beige busses start rolling out of the Department of Public Safety's Inmate Transfer Station in High Point.