Hickory News

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.

A Hickory man died Saturday when he drove off the road, hitting a tree. Ryan Evan Parker, 39, was driving west on U.S. 70, SE, at about 12:45 p.m. when he drove past the 1200 block and ran off the road into an empty lot next to the Armstrong Ford dealership, according to police reports.

Bandys clinches share of conference title after win at East Burke, Maiden defeats Bunker Hill, and Draughn picks up first varsity football win in school history.

A Hudson couple was arrested Wednesday night when Hickory police caught them loading stolen copper wiring into their van with their children sleeping in the back seat.

Investigators said they found not only the evidence to charge a married couple in a copper theft, but also their 3- and 1-year-old children in the family's van near Highway 321 North late Wednesday.

News-Topic Staff Area law enforcement officers busted a scheduled drug delivery at the Granite Falls Walmart Monday that resulted in the arrest of three suspects and the recovery of several pounds of marijuana.

Kim Kimbrogh spotted the water damage, then realized what it meant. "I was heartbroken," she said.

The Solmaz Institute for Obesity will work to prevent and treat childhood obesity in the Catawba Valley region of North Carolina.

Witnesses said they heard multiple blasts before a three-story, $400,000 lakefront home was reduced to rubble in Hickory.

Hickory police arrested a second person in connection with the death of a woman hit by a car early Sunday.

Hickory- The Hickory metro area jobless rate fell during the month of September.

Hickory police arrested the second person in connection with a robbery that occurred in a Wal-Mart parking lot Oct.