Caldwell County News

Set up with care in all the old rooms, halls and buildings of the Patterson Science Center on Tuesday were school science projects that started with questions.

A Granite Falls man faces a possible sentence of life in prison without parole if he is convicted on three counts of incest with a child.

So far, no one knows why Jorge Ivan Serrano would have driven to the Castle Bridge wildlife access on Connelly Springs Road.

The whole point is to gather - to cook, to eat, to sprawl in chairs and feel the gradual creep of the tryptophan in your veins and the stretch of a stomach pushed to its limits.

A local family received news Thanksgiving that they didn't want to hear. Their loved one, who disappeared Tuesday, was found in Lake Rhodiss.

TOPIC Volunteers prepare plates for seniors to enjoy a early Thanksgiving meal at First Baptist Church in Granite Falls.

TOPIC David Dye, right, pulls a $100 speeding ticket out of the chance bowl as Jackson Lackey, center, and Jake Cook figure up his new expense addition during Monday's CIS Reality Store held at the Broyhill Civic Center in Lenoir.

Caldwell County residents could see a mix of rain, sleet and snow before noon, but it isn't expected to stick around long, according to the National Weather Service.

The Caldwell County Schools are opening on a three-hour delay this morning because of predicted icy conditions on roads from a winter storm sweeping across the region last night.

Educators and their supporters waved signs, wore red scarves and gloves, booed, cheered and lit candles at a rally Monday evening in downtown Lenoir, hosted by the local branch of the North Carolina Association of Educators.

Giorgio Corso's grandfather founded a small, metal-drawing lubricants company called Lubrimetal in Italy in 1959.

Officials in Caldwell County say a man who was out on bond for two separate drug investigations has been caught with drugs again.

If you ever had a "Green Acres" urge to chuck city life and an office job to take up farming, you were on your own in learning what farming takes.

Kevin Ray Bumgarner, 34, of Lenoir, is charged with one count of felony manufacturing methamphetamine, according to a news release from the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office.

Caldwell County is willing to offer incentives of $2,000 per job to three companies that may bring a total up to 120 jobs over the next three years.

TOPIC Caldwell County fire inspector Dino DiBernardi looks for the source of a suspicious fire in a house on Willow Street in Lenoir.

When the night is cold, Paul Storie, a grizzled 70-year-old Vietnam War veteran, holds a flannel blanket up to the dashboard vent in his old Buick, the fan on high heat, for about 10 minutes.

The N.C. Highway Patrol is trying to find a person who intentionally backed his pickup into the car behind him at an intersection in eastern Caldwell County on Thursday morning.

Jessica Kincaid, 29, of Morganton, was arrested earlier this week in Caldwell County and charged with trafficking in opiates, authorities say.

TOPIC Sally Baskey was the comedic guest speaker during Thursday night's 11th Annual Legacy Banquet held at Mountain Grove Baptist Church.