Madison News

Candidate filings for local mayoral and council races opened Monday morning at the Rockingham County Board of Elections.

Rockingham County deputies arrested a man early Thursday following a standoff that lasted about one and a half hours.

While watching the U.S. Open on Friday, I was reminded of a couple of the more interesting golf shots I've witnessed.

The Rockingham County Sheriff's Office has charged a Stokesdale man in a series of break-ins on Tuesday morning.

A missing person search Saturday near Humphrey's Ridge Family Campground at Belews Lake ended with the discovery of the body of a 27-year-old Stoneville man.

Dixie Penn witnessed many changes at the Madison-Mayodan Recreation Department since 1983, but the place where she served as director for 26 years faces another change in a few weeks.

Red juicy deliciousness. That's one way of describing Rockingham County's homegrown strawberries.

Published: Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 4:25 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 4:25 p.m. Heavy rain soaked portions of North Carolina on Sunday, causing flooding and mudslides in the west and dropping significant amounts in the east.

A Madison woman was choked until she was unconscious, then awoke to find her attacker attempting to reviver her, Rockingham County Sheriff's Department spokesman Dean Venable Thursday.

A sea of fluorescent yellow Operation Inasmuch T-shirts filled the sanctuary of Mayodan First Baptist Church early Saturday morning.

The Social Security Administration today announced the most popular baby names in North Carolina for 2008.

Parts of Rockingham County are without power this morning, but schools are keeping students inside.

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch in effect until 9 this evening for the following areas in Western North Carolina: Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford and Transylvania counties.

Rockingham County Sheriff's Department deputies said Thursday that a 19-year-old man has been charged with assaulting another person at a pajama party that got out of hand.

Police from three departments were called to the party where they found over 100 people under the age of 16-year-old. The Rockingham County Sheriff's Office says they responded to a home in Stoneville after someone called about a gun shot victim.

MOCKSVILLE a ' Headed west on Highway 64 in Davie County, a bright mass of yellow appears on the horizon.

Cigarettes run through one of the production lines at the new General Tobacco facility in Madison, N.C. The Labor Department said Wednesday, April 15, 2009, consumer prices edged down 0.1 percent last month as a drop in energy prices offset the biggest rise in tobacco prices since 1998.

U.S. consumer prices dipped unexpectedly in March, leaving inflation over the past year falling at the fastest clip in more than a half-century. The recession is expected to keep a lid on inflation as widespread layoffs dampen wage pressures and weak demand keeps companies from raising prices.

Published: Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 8:09 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 8:09 p.m. Relatives of a Sunday school teacher arrested in the killing of an 8-year-old girl found stuffed into a suitcase said Sunday they are baffled by the accusations against the woman they know as a loving, single parent.

Lady Patti Cake and her friend, El Gato, knew what current celebrities like Alicia Keys and Tim McGraw have in common with historical figures like Beethoven and Shakespeare.