Caldwell County News

Linemen with Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation have been responding since 4:30 a.m. today to outages affecting 72 members in Caldwell and Alexander counties.

The National Weather Service even said it was possible that the Lenoir area could see 2 to 4 inches of combined sleet and snow overnight.

Sheriff's deputies in Caldwell County are searching for a motorcycle rider who led them on a high-speed chase south of Lenoir.

Grayson Walker, the 15-year-old Caldwell County youth who was struck by a car while trying to save his dog on Feb. 24, has improved from critical to fair condition at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, a nursing supervisor said Tuesday.

Police in Lenoir are looking for the thief or thieves who took more than $41,000 worth of bronze vases from a cemetery in the Caldwell County city.

After taking the pill halves, one died of an overdose, and the other was admitted to the intensive care unit but lived.

After environmental contamination derailed a previous deal for Lenoir and Caldwell County to buy the freight-transfer operation known as the transload facility, a smaller, less expensive deal emerged.

There will be five candidates in the Republican primary for two seats on the Caldwell County Board of Commissioners.

A man whose body was found sitting eerily on a stump in a brush fire Monday died of natural causes, the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office said Thursday.

Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute on Wednesday hosted officials from the North Carolina Community College System for the launch of the statewide NCReady4Work initiative.

People coming for services at two Hudson-area churches Sunday morning arrived to find they had been broken into, and cash, computers and sound equipment were stolen from them.

The former administrator of Foothills Regional Airport was sentenced Tuesday to 37 months in federal prison plus three years on probation for his involvement in embezzling and money laundering at the airport from 2009 to 2012.

Since Exela Pharma Sciences came to Lenoir in 2008, many people have had the same question for the company's president and CEO.

District Attorney Jay Gaither alleged that attorney Scott Reilly hurt the prosecution's case by "mishandling" evidence in the killing of 10-year-old Zahra Baker, shown here in May 2010.

A state House study committee met for only the second time Monday afternoon to hear what is working across the state to increase access to healthy food in what are known as "food deserts."

LENOIR A Caldwell County teenager was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after he tried to save his dog and was struck by a vehicle outside his home on Monday morning, authorities said.

Caldwell County investigators hope an autopsy will provide more answers after a man was found dead at a fire.

The boil-water advisory for water customers in Lenoir, Baton and Sawmills was lifted Thursday, and there have been no reported illnesses from contaminated water, but Caldwell County is advising water customers in other parts of the county to continue boiling any water for human consumption as a precaution.

Sasha Peyton was not aware a high-pressure water main had ruptured until the following morning, after repairs had been made, when she read about the water advisory on Facebook.

LENOIR A Hickory man was sentenced to prison this week on habitual felon charges, according to the District Attorney's office in Caldwell County.