Lilesville News

Former Wadesboro Police Chief Bobby Usrey was elected to the town council on Election Day Tuesday.

A home on Fenton Street, Rockingham, was robbed on Sept. 19 by someone who took $475 cash and prescription Percocet.

The Anson Record's Golden Football has been been found but the winner of the $500 prize is still unknown.

Kari Burriss, Jenny Wood and Lindsay Knopp stand proudly by the windows they decorated in the Belk building in uptown Wadesboro, across from the Anson County Courthouse.

Don Franklin Teal, 35, of Lilesville is one of numerous suspects recently arrested in Anson County on drug charges.

The Dodge car driven by Paul Edwards Spencer of Lilesville was hit in the passenger side and rolled three times in an accident on Highway 74 Sunday, July 19.

The filing deadline for municipal elections passed at noon Friday. Several incumbents chose to file for re-election to their seats, but a few notable town council members opted not to run again.

Before the festivities at the 17th annual Lilesville World Championship Rodeo got under way last weekend, Drake Phillips of Morven got the chance to ride a mechanical bull, something his mother Ginger said he'd been looking forward to for some time.

Thursday afternoon, July 2, the residents in Morven got to see first- hand the a oeNew Gang in Town.a This new gang already has many members who like to dress alike and who sometimes even talk in their own code.

When property tax collection becomes a problem for some municipalities, the state recommends they go to a higher power for help: The county.

A motion from the June 4 Board of Elections meeting that would have relocated some voting locations around Anson died at the board's June 18 meeting.

Last week, the Wadesboro and Lilesville communities were rocked by the untimely death of an 18-year-old Anson High School senior, just weeks before graduation.

An Anson County high school student died Tuesday morning in a single-vehicle crash east of Wadesboro.

A 17-year old girl died in a wreck Tuesday morning, according to law enforcement officials.

Daniel Scott Parker, 46, of Lilesville was arrested after an eight-hour standoff on Thursday, May 7. slideshow An eight-hour armed standoff ended with the arrest of a Lilesville man, according to a statement from the Lilesville Police Department.

Authorities say they have arrested six people trying to use receipts to steal items from a Laurinburg retailer.

A group of inmates from Anson Correctional Center, who are also part of a masonry class through South Piedmont Community College, worked in the heat on Monday, April 27, to help build a home in Lilesville that will eventually go to a needy family through Habitat for Humanity.