Wentworth News

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

An Eden man faces charges of property damage and larceny after an incident at Johnston Nursery.

Daymark Recovery Services will take over mental health services from the county on July 1. The Rockingham County Mental Health Center will also have a new Local Management Entity - CenterPoint Human Services.

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Wilber Turner stood and slowly turned to face the VFW Honor Guard waiting across the highway from Veterans Memorial Park in Wentworth on Sunday afternoon.

WENTWORTH - A prosecutor has cleared a North Carolina trooper of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting last year of a man who had made several threats against the officer.

Alford Dominique Lawrence, 26, is in the Rockingham County Jail under a $500,000 secured bond as the result of an investigation into an incident involving an underaged girl.

Rockingham Co., NC -- Rockingham County is showing off its green projects next week.

Wentworth- Rockingham county sheriff's office says around 1pm Tuesday, a shopper called Greensboro police about an inmate she saw on television.

The man was fishing with a relative when their boat capsized, said Greg Collins, the assistant director of the Stokes County Emergency Medical Service.

WENTWORTH, N.C. Sheriff's deputies in a North Carolina county are searching for an inmate who squirmed through a ceiling and came down outside the locked area and left the jail with visitors.

Laid-off workers in Rockingham County now have an alternative in their search for a positive future - self-employment. North Carolina is one of three states participating in Growing America Through Entrepreneurship - a national demonstration program funded through the U.S. Department of Labor.

For 21 years, Tony Rice has been heading to Wilkesboro the last weekend in April.

Mental health patients receiving services from Rockingham County will soon get help elsewhere.

Eden police made two arrests in a burglary at 134 High St. that occured Tuesday.

WENTWORTH A judge has sentenced a 60-year-old North Carolina woman to three years of probation for passing a stopped school bus and striking a 16-year-old boy, killing him.

Wentworth, NC - July Earlene Stilwell, 60, pled guilty today in Rockingham County Superior Court to Passing a Stopped Bus and Striking a Person, a Class I felony.

WHAT: Job Fair and Career Expo WHEN: April 28, 2009, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. WHERE: Rockingham Community College, NC 65, Wentworth, NC.

Columbia-area companies were chosen as winners of the prestigious PICA Awards given by The Printing Industry of the Carolinas, Inc.

At a budget workshop in Wentworth, commissioners said they would make every effort to make up the deficit without raising property taxes.