Purlear News

Pardon me for saying thisa but only in Wilkes County is the best way to lead into this next story.

By this time next week, analog television will be a thing of the past. TV stations are stepping up their efforts to make sure people are ready.

Wilkes sheriff department investigators are releasing very little information about their investigation of a fatal shooting that occurred during a reported home invasion robbery.

It appears the Larceny Lawn Service is out collecting their equipment to go to work this summer.

Speeding is at least partly to blame for the incident that ended with a Purlear man behind bars for DWI and other crimes.

A Wilkes County woman has been charged with five counts of felony embezzlement in connection with $209,000 taken from her employer since late 2005, according to the Wilkesboro Police Department.

GREENSBORO The North Carolina State Elks Association recently held the 37th state hoop shoot competition at Jameson Gymnasium in Greensboro.

Police are looking for a man last seen on his farm in Purlear, NC. Edward Stanley Critcher, 84, was last seen wearing blue jeans, a blue cotton jacket and boots.

Four Wilkes County residents have been arrested in a string of break-ins at the Run-In gas station in West Jefferson.

The North Carolina highway patrol has released information concerning the wreck yesterday that critically injured a Purlear man.