Boomer News

Yesterday was a day for shaking off blankets -- the kind many people spent the past two days nestled under and the kind made up of the white stuff that piled in front of people's houses.

An update to a story we brought you on Friday: Police are treating that body found in Boomer last Thursday as a homicide.

A Wilkes County man whose body was found outside his home Thursday died after being stabbed, authorities said yesterday.

Ashlyn Pope, 17, is listed in critical condition at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte after a vehicle in which she was traveling with her father was struck Thursday night.

Wilkes County Schools and a Quaker peace activist have reached a court-mediated agreement in a four-year-long dispute about her access to high-school students so she can present information about alternatives to military service.

A judge has dismissed criminal charges against a man involved in a $20 million federal civil-rights lawsuit against law enforcement officers in Wilkes County because the county failed to preserve video evidence requested by the defense.

A judge has dismissed criminal charges against a man involved in a $20 million federal civil-rights lawsuit against law enforcement officers in Wilkes County because the county failed to preserve video evidence requested by the defense.

A judge has dismissed criminal charges against a man involved in a $20 million federal civil-rights lawsuit against law enforcement officers in Wilkes County because the county failed to preserve video evidence requested by the defense.

A judge has dismissed criminal charges against a man involved in a $20 million federal civil-rights lawsuit against law enforcement officers in Wilkes County because the county failed to preserve video evidence requested by the defense.

A judge has dismissed criminal charges against a man involved in a $20 million federal civil-rights lawsuit against law enforcement officers in Wilkes County because the county failed to preserve video evidence requested by the defense.

Tuesday, 28 July 2009 Overheard at Costco By: Joe Huffman Tuesday, 28 July 2009 07:26:42 ( Boomershoot Dateline: July 27, 2009.

In a time when the celebrity world lost 50-year-old infomercial king Billy Mays and pop superstar Michael Jackson, could it be any wonder that Ralph Wildman, 53, was eating a veggie sandwich and a banana during his lunch break recently? "I was beginning to get a little paunchy around the waist," the Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., salesman said.

Asheville police charged a Wilkes County man with using another man's identity to make a financial transaction.