Patterson News

The 18th century home of Gen. William Lenoir will share the spirit of the season when its hosts the annual Colonial Christmas at historic Fort Defiance.

The aunt of one of three North Carolina women prosecutors say were killed by the same man says police told her that two of the women were slain inside the suspect's home.

East Carolina received a total of 37 points from the 15 votes they received. The highest ranking the Pirates received was #21 from TCU's head coach, Gary Patterson.

Wachovia-Wells Fargo presented a $10,000 check to kick off the fundraising and planning phase of the Asheville City Schools Foundation's Listening To Our Teens Network.

Antoinette Davis, right, listens to her charges on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 near Sanford, N.C. Davis is the mother of the missing 5-year-old who was found dead off a heavily wooded road in a rural area Monday, ending a weeklong search, police said.

A dog trainer who helped look for a missing North Carolina 5-year-old says searchers overlooked it at first because all they saw were deer carcasses in trash bags.

A Lenoir woman is in good condition today after blacking out behind the wheel Sunday afternoon.

RALEIGH, N.C. a ' Carl Patterson, Mark Ash, Heather Adams and Cliff Brinson, partners in the Smith Anderson's Commercial Litigation Practice Group, have been honored by Benchmark Litigation in 2009.

A much-challenged gun owner was deemed to own and use all his weapons legally. A group in Wesley Chapel who call themselves a oecitizens for safer neighborhoods,a asked District Attorney John Snyder to investigate the legal ownership of weapons, especially the automatic weapons, Michael Land fires on a gun range near the Stonegate neighborhood.

PAUL TEAGUE pteague@newstopic.net Blue Ridge Tissue Corporation, a subsidiary of National Packaging Services Corporation, announced the purchase of the Patterson Tissue Mill assets from Omni Supply Inc.

Blue Ridge Tissue Corp., a subsidiary of NPS Corp., Ashwaubenon, said Friday it acquired tissue mill assets of a company in Patterson, N.C. Andrew Hetzel Jr., president and CEO of NPS, said acquisition of the Patterson Tissue Mill assets will ensure NPS adequate supply and lower costs for its specialty tissue business.

At least two people, one of them a Morganton businessman, will challenge three-term U.S. Rep.

Over one hundred years ago a man had a vision, a vision of a school for young men in the mountains of North Carolina.

Paul Teague Three months after the creation of a Caldwell County Rescue Readiness Board, local volunteer rescue squads are being realigned.

The national stimulus package passed by Congress in February may have been too enthusiastic about spending money on one particular project: figuring out where broadband Internet access is available and how fast it is.

Red Springs Mayor George T. Paris, left, listens as Interim Town Manager Tony White talks about receipt of an $18,500 grant for a long-range community improvement plan.

Published: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 6:26 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 6:26 p.m. Isaac Killian Neill was named to the dean's list at the University of Chicago.

Elizabeth Edwards says she expects that her husband, former presidential candidate John Edwards, will take a test to determine the paternity of the child born to his former mistress, Rielle Hunter.

Elizabeth Edwards says she expects that her husband, former presidential candidate John Edwards, will take a test to determine the paternity of the child born to his former mistress, Rielle Hunter.

A billboard shows information about 9 women who are missing or dead in Rocky Mount, N.C., Thursday, Aug.