Hickory News

TOPIC STAFF Linda Payne lpayne@newstopic.net A former Alexander County correctional officer has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple sexual offenses.

A Caldwell County teacher has been charged with driving while impaired and hit and run following an accident in Hickory.

Eric Bartlett Prior to employment with the Hickory Fire Department, Bartlett served as a volunteer firefighter with Icard Township Fire & Rescue, where he was a member for eight years.

The families of some Southwest Elementary School students are angry because they say a substitute teacher acted inappropriately last week.

A suspect is under arrest accused of shooting and killing a man inside an apartment in Hickory.

George Reighard is shown with other airmen and Miss Lenoir Sharon Berry outside a plane named the City of Lenoir that he landed in Hickory in the 1950s.

Homemade bombs are cheap and simple. They're easy to hide and they're lethal. Trains loaded with thousands of tons of cargo rumble through downtown Hickory daily.

Hickory- The City of Hickory had two sanitary sewer overflows on Wednesday. The first spill occurred at the Northeast Waste Water Treatment Plant influent pump station on Cloninger Mill Road.

A former North Carolina state senator says he won't seek the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican U.S. Sen.

A Mooresville woman is among three people charged with ATM larcenies in Alexander County.

Hickory- A Hickory man was robbed while attempting to buy back his television. Roberto Layza broke up with Keisha Matthews, who wasLayza's girlfriend, recently.

Residents of an apartment complex near Valley Hills Mall don't know what to call the affectionate black and white cat that showed up there earlier this week, but they think "Lucky" would be appropriate.

NC Ad Agency Gotham LLC continues to grow despite a struggling economy. They are proud to announce their recent partnership with North Carolina utility cooperative Energy United.

A North Carolina House member and former Alexander County sheriff won't seek re-election next year because he wants to spend more time at home.

A teenager is kidnapped in her own car and forced at gunpoint to drive a suspect out of town.

An 18-year-old woman says a man waited in the backseat of her car, and forced her to drive him to Cherryville in Gaston County by threatening to shoot her.

A Conover woman got into her car early Wednesday to find an armed man waiting inside.

The Bank of Granite off Springs Road was robbed at about 10:30 a.m. Monday. Twenty minutes later, Hickory police arrested a man for the robbery.

Authorities have taken a man into custody that they believe robbed a northeast Hickory bank early Monday.

Rhodhiss firefighter injured in head-on collision; three others sent to hospital in unrelated collisions A Rhodhiss firefighter remains hospitalized today after undergoing surgery for injuries he sustained during a head-on collision Friday evening.