Alamance County News Archives

The 87-year-old Haw River man missing since last week was found dead by a hunter in Montgomery County on Friday.

Authorities say a hunter found the body of a missing 87-year-old North Carolina man.

Alamance County deputies were hoping for a happy ending to the search for 87 year old Hugh Clark.

It's been five days since 87-year-old Hugh Clark went missing. Clark was last seen on Friday and his family is getting desperate.

The Alamance County Sheriff's Office needs your help locating a missing man. Hugh Clarence Clark, 87, left his home around 2:00 Friday afternoon.

An 82-year-old woman accused of striking an Elon professor with her car while he was riding his bicycle has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor death by vehicle.

Donald Austin ended his 35-year career with the North Carolina Ferry Division with something he'd never done before - rescuing people on a sinking boat.

North Carolina residents are getting anxious to have the H1N1 flu vaccine available.

An Alamance County man is among seven additional state Department of Correction inmates eligible for release because of a controversial recent court ruling.

A disagreement over a car repair job has led to the arrest of a Graham man. Harmon Lee Barker, 54, of Swepsonville-Saxapahaw Road, Graham was charged with felonious restraint, possession of a firearm by a felon and assault by pointing a gun following a disagreement with Brad Mondie of Moores Chapel Cemetery Road.

Alamance County's unemployment rate dropped to 11.8 percent in September. That was down from 12.1 percent in August, according to figures released Friday by the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina.

A Yadkin County man has been charged in Alamance County for soliciting a child over the internet.

An Alamance County man wanted by U.S. Marshals since last December was arrested in Burlington early Thursday for allegedly molesting two little girls in the summer of 2008.

Graham Charter Chapter of the ABWA will celebrate its 40th anniversary Thursday evening at Ramada Inn.

Democratic Women of Alamance County will meet Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Occasions. Cal Cunningham is the speaker.

A Burlington man wanted on sex charges was arrested Saturday. Andrew Joe Lea Jr., 26, of Lakeside Avenue, is in the Alamance County jail under a $106,000 bond charged with one count of second-degree kidnapping and two counts each of sexual battery, taking indecent liberties with a child and resisting a public officer.

A DNA test confirmed that a 34-year-old Snow Camp man who is currently in prison is the person responsible for sexually assaulting an elderly woman in the southeastern part of the county almost four years ago.

The Alamance County Health Department will hold hold an H1N1 Vaccination Clinic this weekend.

United Way of Alamance County was awarded $1 million to help people who are homeless or on the verge of losing their homes get back on their feet.

The Alamance County Sheriff's Department charged a woman Saturday with armed robbery and is still looking for three other suspects.

Neighbors suspected for years that the property on Moore Chapel Cemetery Road where authorities found dead fowl and seized 36 pit bulls last week was used for dog fighting, according to search warrants.

The Alamance County Sheriff's Department is investigating an armed robbery at a business on N.C. 87 in the southern part of the county.

Carousel Luxury Cinemas, which owns a 16-screen theater in Burlington, is considering banning the use of cell phones during movies and could reach a decision within weeks, a company official says.

A 19-year-old Burlington man faces charges for allegedly sexually and physically assaulting a 13-year-year-old girl.

GRAHAM What started with a traffic stop last week has led authorities to discover drugs, dog and cock fighting operations and counterfeit money in the southern part of the county.

An employee of the Alamance County District Attorney's office has been charged with stealing $10 from the SBI Special Fund.

A traffic stop led alamance county deputies to arrests on drug and animal fighting charges.

A Virginia man was arrested while on vacation in Kitty Hawk, N.C., after being nabbed in an online prowler sting conducted by authorities in both Alamance County and Virginia, Sheriff's Department spokesman Randy Jones said.

A former North Carolina House member says he was speeding so he could vote in Raleigh on behalf of his constituents.

Police and fire crews are working to clear a wreck on Highway 87, south of Graham.