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The 87-year-old Haw River man missing since last week was found dead by a hunter in Montgomery County on Friday.

While it's well known that Halloween is a day of partying and drinking for many people, law enforcement agencies in the county don't plan to take additional steps to target drunk drivers this weekend.

The Daraja Children's Choir of Africa is making an encore appearance Nov. 5 at St.

Bev Perdue earlier this month. He will fill an at-large position dealing with government-related finance and accounting.

Donald Austin ended his 35-year career with the North Carolina Ferry Division with something he'd never done before - rescuing people on a sinking boat.

The Ham's Restaurant in Burlington has closed. Amanda Jones, marketing coordinator for the company, said that the restaurant closed on Oct.

State environmental officials have allocated $65 million in federal stimulus funds to cities, counties and local water systems across the state to help them improve drinking water quality or bring more water to their communities.

Police arrested two men Thursday and are looking for a third in connection with an armed robbery early Tuesday.

Police in Burlington are looking for the man who shot another person in the hand.

Whitney Oakley became a principal in 2008. A year later, she was chosen for the top honor among the men and women who lead the Alamance-Burlington School System's schools.

Burlington police have identified one of three men wanted for an armed robbery early Tuesday.

Q: I need to build larger quads for next year's competition. I already do leg presses, lunges, inverted leg presses, leg extensions and a variety of exercises and use considerable weight in doing those.

Burlington Aviation's flight simulator gives students a heck of a ride. October 17, 2009 3:58 PM Everything was fine during take-off. I'd never flown a plane but managed with the help of a very experienced co-pilot to get the nose in the air and get the plane about 10,000 feet above the runway at Burlington-Alamance Regional Airport on Wednesday.

Burlington police will hold its annual Captain's Choice Golf Tournament at Indian Valley Golf Course on Oct.

If it ever stops raining long enough for the leaves to dry out, it'll be time to rake them up.

Proverbs 29:18 states that "where there is no vision, the people perish." I ask where is the vision when it comes to west-side development of Burlington? According to the May 2009 Hayden-Harman Foundation report, URS - a renowned corporation out of Charlotte that specializes in infrastructure consulting - spent considerable effort to determine the ...

No Excuse/One-Stop early voting for the Nov. 3 municipal elections in Alamance County will begin Thursday.

A newspaper carrier for the Burlington Times News was robbed early Monday morning as he was restocking a newspaper machine.

Burlington police are looking for a man suspected in an armed robbery at a shoe store Saturday night.

Alamance County deputies charged Robert Nelson Gilley III, 17, of Rosalyn Drive, Burlington, and Jeffrey Tyler Petty, 17, of Burch Bridge Road, Burlington, with breaking into homes, garages and storage buildings at two Burlington residences and attempting to break into a third residence.

An entire wall of the Burlington Artists League's Fine Arts Gallery at Burlington Square Mall, 180 Huffman Mill Road, Burlington, is devoted to its 26th annual Fine Arts Competition now through Oct.

A 25-year-old Burlington man was charged with negligent child abuse in the death of his 10-month old daughter last January.

Just a few weeks after school started this year, Western Alamance senior Trey Bowden found himself getting escorted out of class by a school resource officer.

Nevertheless, the vantage point is definitely situated in the second half of the twentieth century, like in the other two texts.

A Gibsonville man accused of tying up his mother and beating her with a baseball bat in June pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder in Alamance County Superior Court Wednesday morning.

The paratroopers of Chosen Company had plenty to worry about as they began digging in at their new outpost on the fringe of a hostile frontier village in eastern Afghanistan.

A former North Carolina House member says he was speeding so he could vote in Raleigh on behalf of his constituents.

Goodbye Chop House Grille, welcome Grill 5.8.4, the Koury family's foray into fine casual dining.