Claremont News Archives

Joey Goble has applied for two or three jobs per week since June and has tried to find work through staffing agencies from Hickory to Gastonia.

I read the paper and the news every day concerning the health-care overhaul. I am amazed at the turnout at the town hall meetings and the overwhelming disgust for the health-care bill being pushed on America.

A new 204,000-sq.-ft., multi-tenant warehouse in Claremont, NC, marks the latest expansion for Zenith Global Logistics.

North Carolina lawmakers passed nearly 500 new laws before shutting down for this year, but plenty of updates and reforms were left pending until next year.

About 900 people showed up Friday for an auction in Catawba County that is selling off the assets of a man accused of running a multi-million-dollar investment scheme.

For emergency room nurse Terry Shook, his home is his castle. Anyone who kicks down his door to get inside ought to expect to be carried out again in a stretcher.

Some of the questions and comments from those in the crowd: "Who's the Secretary of State?" a ' Bruce Kaiser of Conover, on Bill Clinton's recent trip to North Korea to secure the release of two U.S. journalists "I would like to know the reason no one has said, 'The reason health care is in the condition it's in is that there are 20 million in the ...

The possessions of a North Carolina man accused of bilking $25 million from investors are going on the auction block.

A second raid by Catawba County deputies Thursday night netted two more suspects believed to be associated with a gang known as the Cat Town Boys.