Cabarrus County News

KANNAPOLIS a ' Cabarrus Meals on Wheels is moving to a new facility today that will allow the nonprofit group to prepare its own food, have a central location and provide accessible parking for its approximately 600 volunteers.

Unemployment increased in Cabarrus and Rowan counties in May, according to official state statistics released last week, and the rate is expected to increase again when Philip Morris USA stops production at its Concord plant this month, laying off 1,000 workers.

HARRISBURG a ' The Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office charged two people in a shooting Thursday morning in the Canterfield subdivision.

Cabarrus County leaders praised a telecommunications direct-sales company for bringing several hundred jobs to the region at its grand opening celebration Thursday.

BOONE a ' Residents of Rowan and Cabarrus counties have their own nights to see "Horn in the West," the nation's oldest outdoor Revolutionary War drama a ' and they can do it at a discounted price.

Libertarian Thomas Hill, an electrician from Cabarrus County, has become the first candidate to formally announce for the 8th Congressional District seat, Hill, 43, said he'll seek the seat now held by Democratic U.S. Rep.

A job magnet in Cabarrus County loses some of its strength. Financing difficulties at the North Carolina Research Campus caused one future tenant to cancel its agreement to locate there.

CONCORD a ' Michael Eury is used to being around dust and digging up history. As the executive director for Historic Cabarrus Association, which manages The Concord Museum and The Cabarrus County Veterans Museum, he is always learning and educating others about famous county figures, such as Warren Coleman.

Tuesday evening was the first night of preliminary competition for the 56 young women competing for the title of Miss North Carolina 2009 and Miss North Carolina's Outstanding Teen.

There is more fallout from the massive funding cuts by the United Way of the Carolinas and it's not just in Charlotte.

The Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners unanimously adopted a $194.3 million general fund budget for fiscal year 2010, which begins July 1. The county budget maintains the current tax rate of 63 cents per $100 property valuation.

Positions have been frozen, merit raises have been suspended and division budgets have been slashed, but the county tax rate won't rise this year, according to the $194.3 million budget that Cabarrus County commissioners adopted unanimously on Monday.

Cabarrus County commissioners approved a resolution this week opposing a plan to divert funding for the Interstate 85 widening project to the completion of Interstate 485.

KANNAPOLIS a ' What summer camp includes W.H.A.L.E.S. Tales, a tour of an EMS truck, making tornados in a bottle, the Canine Patrol, bike safety and more? Camp Ready Kids does.

The Cabarrus County Health Alliance confirmed Friday the county's first two cases of the H1N1 virus, more commonly known as Swine Flu.

The Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce has announced graduates of 2009 Leadership Cabarrus, a nine-month program designed to educate business and community leaders about resources, issues, challenges and opportunities in the Cabarrus region.

Adam Hines sipped coconut juice as he talked Monday about his new job with Mountaineer Partnership Inc., Kings Mountain's downtown economic development arm, where he started work in March.

The Rowan County Health Department has confirmed a case of novel H1N1 flu in a child.

A new 43-mile natural gas pipeline, which has caused rancorous land negotiations in northern Union County, consternation in neighboring Cabarrus County and a pending N.C. Utilities Commission complaint, is about one-fifth done -- and moving forward.

Authorities say they are confident that a North Carolina man charged with rape for an encounter arranged on Craigslist knew that it was not consensual.