Spencer News

The Rowan County Sheriff's Office arrested two young men Friday for breaking into a half-dozen vehicles on Old Beattys Ford and Johnson Dairy roads in Rockwell.

Vernon Shurtz had gone to the store Wednesday morning when he got a call from his wife, Tatyana.

MEN'S DAY CELEBRATION at Haw Branch A.M.E. Church at 11 a.m. July 13 with speaker the Rev.

The town of Spencer has joined a group of local municipalities that have started hauling trash to the Rowan County Landfill.

A letter from a structural engineer concerning a dilapidated building in town was discussed at Tuesday's meeting of the Spencer Board of Aldermen.

Town officials say work will begin Monday on a nearly $2 million project to repair and upgrade East Spencer's water distribution system.

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Del Robideaux, a 52-year-old Fayetteville woman, offered this explanation Saturday about why she has started riding Harley-Davidsons: "Mid-life crisis," Robideaux said with a chuckle.

Phillip Stringer, a sophomore at West Rowan High School, is the first recipient of the Rowan County Scholastic Livestock Award.

A Wisconsin man has been charged with robbing the Spencer branch of SunTrust Bank after he was arrested following a West Virginia bank robbery two weeks later.

Heather Everson and Melissa Cummings have opened Lucky's Grill, formerly Pop's Burgers & Dogs, at 6266 U.S. 601 North.

The building at the corner of Fifth Street and Yadkin Avenue in Spencer has a roof that is collapsing into the building.

Next week, more than 1,000 Harley-Davidson motorcycles will descend on Salisbury for the three-day 2008 N.C. State HOG Rally, organizers of the event say.

Carl Brown is plenty confident his 1966 Austin-Healey will be fine navigating the 8,500 miles he'll be driving this summer.

Spencer resident Bob Oswald asked members of the Board of Aldermen Tuesday why they didn't respond to citizens when they spoke during a public comment session.

Spencer Police are looking for a man who robbed the SunTrust bank on South Salisbury Avenue Thursday morning wearing what appeared to be a Northwest Airlines jacket.

Firefighters were working late Saturday night to contain a house fire at 221 N. Salisbury Ave.

The courageous response of two police officers and a passerby here may have saved residents of Rock Haven Apartments from injury or worse after a fire broke out in apartment No.

Clayton Samuel Price has been accepted to enter the N. C. School of Science and Math in Durham this fall as a junior.