Stokesdale News

People living in Guilford County's Stokesdale community claim they've seen a bobcat roaming the area.

"Staycations," or the explorations of areas close to home rather than those out of town, are becoming increasingly popular in today's economy, considering the high unemployment rate and rising gas prices.

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.

Stokesdale, NC -- Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page says a man swimming in Belews Creek drowned Saturday afternoon.

NARFE Meeting: The Winston-Salem chapter of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association will meet at 11:30 a.m. at the Hanes Mall Golden Corral.

Times may be tight, but the cash-strapped state of North Carolina has awarded Durham County $12,000 to prepare a National Register nomination for Stokesdale.

For the next year, drivers can only drive west on South Mebane Street in Burlington.

Pop Shoppes Raise Money to Send Kids with Muscular Dystrophy to Camp HIGH POINT, N.C., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite the chill in the air, thoughts have been on summer vacation at the Pop Shoppe CITGO station at 3512 Kivett Drive in High Point, N.C. The store was one of 21 locally owned Pop Shoppe stores that raised money through the Shamrocks ...

Gold jewelry has it's rewards and were not just talking about how the fine qualities of the piece.

Opinionline Archives Citizens must demand money back from Congress, AIG I am sick and tired of being a patsy for the parasitic executives of greedy companies.

Nutritionists proclaim the health benefits of starting the day with a hearty breakfast, but several local churches realized long ago that breakfast could provide many other benefits.

Two Stoneville residents were charged last week with possessing illegal drugs. Narcotics officers with the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office served a search warrant Wednesday at 694 Taylor Road in Stoneville.

Jerry Lee Ellis, 48, of 362 Red Oak Drive in Stokesdale, has been charged with obtaining property by false pretense.

The Lowe's Home Centers lighting distribution center in Stokesdale is being closed, affecting 81 hourly and salaried workers.

Lowe's Cos. Inc. says it's shutting a lighting and ceiling fan distribution center in North Carolina at the end of the year and laying off the warehouse's 82 employees.

A Stokesdale man and his son face two felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses in connection with agreements to cut and sell timber.

Boyd Bennett, the state's prisons director, is retiring at the end of the month after more than 36 years working in the Correction Department.

For the uninitiated, Old Crow Medicine Show is a self-described old-timey string band with roots in the Triad.

An attempted breaking and entering was reported at 4:57 a.m. on the 100 block of Pine Street.