Connelly Springs News

The Burke County school board elections weren't the only races happening Tuesday.

Morganton, NC - Nearly 7,000 people already have cast ballots during early voting in the Burke County school board and municipal elections.

North Carolina elections officials penalized former Gov. Mike Easley's campaign $100,000 Friday for not reporting flights provided by a political ally and asked prosecutors to investigate whether he or others broke laws by trying to hide them or other expenses.

Connelly Springs- North Carolina State Senator Jim Jacumin has announced that he will not run for the 44th District seat in 2010.

Charges Patricia Lynn King, 31, of 1035 Salem Road, Apt. A was served an order for arrest Tuesday for financial identity fraud.

Students at East Burke High School in Connelly Springs, North Carolina, are taking their chemistry lessons to heart.

Oct. 21: Students fuel the school bus with fuel made from cooking oil at East Burke High School in Connelly Springs, North Carolina.

Connelly Springs- FOX News was at East Burke High School Wednesday showing the biodiesel bus project.

Making biodiesel in a high school lab. What if school buses could run on fuel made by students? It's happening on a small scale at East Burke High School in Connelly Springs, NC.

It's not unusual to catch a whiff of french fries and fried chicken drifting through the halls of East Burke High School in Connelly Springs, North Carolina.A But you might be surprised to find out that the smell of fried food isn't always coming from the high school cafeteria.A East Burke Teacher Bob Smith and his 12th grade science students are ...

Seats in some town council races in Burke County are up for grabs this year. The town of Glen Alpine has three seats open on the board of aldermen, but none of the incumbents sought re-election, so there will be new faces on the five-member board.

Rain delayed the Hildebran Heritage Festival for three weeks, but come Saturday the vendors and performers will be ready and waiting to entertain visitors at the Albert L. Parkhurst Municipal Complex, 202 S. Center St.

Charges Leslie Javon Forney, 26, of 102 Jones St. was charged Friday with simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

So, NASA proved it can hit the broad side of a barn, in this case the moon, that bright and shiny barn that's the biggest thing in our immediate sky.

Boone- A Connelly Springs man has been arrested and charged in a robbery case that occurred in Boone.

Boone police have arrested a Connelly Springs man suspected of being the "H2O Bandit" who distracted convenience-store clerks by spilling water on the floor before he stole items last year.

Charges Timothy Ray Shook, 51, of 6246 Rollins Park Drive, Connelly Springs, was served criminal summons Thursday for assault.

Incumbent school board member Sam Wilkinson of Valdese now faces no opposition in his run for re-election. Dianne D. Mobley of Connelly Springs said Monday she is leaving the race.

A 76-year-old Burke County man died Monday afternoon in a single-vehicle wreck about a half-mile south of East Burke High School in Icard, the N.C. Highway Patrol says.

Connelly Springs- A medical condition could have led to a fatal wreck that occurred Monday afternoon along Miller Bridge Road.