Lawndale News

CASAR Outside Casar Elementary School, a cluster of students and adults stood around a freshly dug hole on the playground Wednesday, watching as a spindly tree with bare branches was carefully unloaded from the back of the trailer and settled into the hole.

This time of year, it seems everything is haunted in Cleveland County innocuous woods and trails in the spring transform into ghoul-laden exhibitions in the fall.

A 22-year-old Vale resident told authorities he came face to face with the barrel of a pistol last week before losing $440 in a robbery.

When the doors open at 10 a.m. Saturday at the ninth annual Carolina Pottery Festival, Vicki Gill knows there will be a crowd waiting - several folks with bags already in hand - to see, examine and purchase the handiwork of the 100 well-known regional potters showing and selling their pieces at the event.

"We've never had no one file for an entire slate of officers for a municipality." It's just one of the oddities in local fall elections Tuesday, according to Cleveland County Director of Elections Debra Blanton.

Low milk prices at the grocery store may help penny pinching consumers, but it's putting dairy farmers in debt.

Jessica Lauren Brotherton and Curtis Hamrick, both of Lawndale, were married on Saturday, Sept.

A Gaston County teenager is accused of stealing a video game system from the Hughes Pond Volunteer Fire Department.

Two brothers wanted in connection with a home invasion and assault were arrested Tuesday in Cherryville but police say their father, also accused of the crimes, remains on the run.

A Vale man who was trying to hide to avoid arrest for a little over a year on several charges is finally caught in Cleveland County and brought back to Lincoln County.

A U.S. Census study in 2000 projected that by the year 2030, minorities will own most small businesses in America.

"Ban" seems like such a harsh word. Sam Lockridge prefers to say "recycle." State landfill bans on plastic containers, pallets and personal oil filters start Thursday and Cleveland County is more than ready, according to Lockridge, the county's solid waste manager.

The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Division recently conducted three separate undercover operations.

Jason Todd Mace of Gaffney, S.C. and Kristen Michelle Smith of Blacksburg, S.C. Kelsey David Parnell of Shelby and Kelly Denise Walker of Shelby Jonathan Wayne Wortman of Lawndale and Kelli Nichole Mellon of Casar James Johnson of Grover and Lula Mae Ramseur of Grover Billy Joe Beason of Lawndale and Andrea Monika Glossenger of Lawndale Byron Keith ...

The Lincoln County Apple Festival will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in Lincolnton.

Jeremiah Swafford had a fondness for McDonald's. Lilly Willover, known to some as "Goldilocks," had flowing blonde hair.

A man allegedly stuffed more than $100 worth of processed pork down his shirt Sunday at Burns SaveMart.

Apparently still on store shelves. But the same couldn't be said for $107 worth of assorted meats at Burns SaveMart.

After more than a decade of research, writing and gathering photos, the Cleveland County Retired School Personnel is nearing the end of its history books that cover all of the schools in Cleveland County.

Two men accused of robbing a southwestern Lincoln County convenience store at knifepoint were apprehended Monday after a homeowner found them breaking into a residence on Hartsoe Road.