Caldwell County News

Family, friends, and western North Carolina's law enforcement community paid their respects under rainy skies Sunday to the family of fallen officer Jason Crisp.

Philip Wike was raised in farming cattle. His father and his grandfather before him raised cattle, and today the family owns and rents farms in Caldwell County, raising cattle, chickens, corn and more.

An 18-year-old man first saw the 11-year-old girl on a social media site. He sent her friend requests.

A months-long investigation by the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office ended in the arrest Wednesday of a Granite Falls man whom the sheriff's office is accusing of being a high-level drug dealer.

Officer Jason Crisp and his K-9 counterpart, Maros, both shot and killed in the line of duty Wednesday, will be honored Monday at a funeral at McDowell High School in Marion.

The violent deaths of four people in western Burke County is resonating particularly strongly for law enforcement officers in Caldwell County.

TOPIC Caldwell County Animal Control officer Patrick Whittington chases a donkey named Christmas that got loose on Summerlin Place off Setzers Creek Road Wednesday afternoon.

TOPIC Nikki Malatin, West Caldwell High School, Tracey Holton, Hudson Elementary School, Lauren Oakes, Horizon's Elementary School, Jamie Lewis, Hibriten High School, and Jacob Lail, Gamewell Middle School, pose for a picture after recieving their grants during Tuesday's grant presentation held at the Caldwell Education Center in Lenoir.

David Clifton Johnson was appointed the new finance director for the Caldwell County Schools at the Caldwell County Board of Education's meeting Monday night.

A masked man robbed a Caldwell County convenience store at gunpoint, according to the sheriff's office.

Both incumbents and all three challengers who filed to run for the Caldwell County Board of Commissioners are Republicans, so the race will be decided in the May primary.

Kevin Hartso and his mother, Katherine Hartso, stepped gingerly among some of the approximately 7,500 graves dotting the landscape at Blue Ridge Memorial Park.

Caldwell County Schools will present the 12th annual Hall of Honor induction ceremony on Thursday, April 10, at 6 p.m. at the J.E. Broyhill Civic Center in celebration of Caldwell County graduates who have made significant contributions to their profession and community.

At each of eight tables, students hovered over a black, metal box, unpacking rainbow-colored wires and shining metal parts, diving in to assemble the pieces, looking more like surgeons on the operating table than students putting together computers.

Authorities were looking for a man who led deputies on a brief but high-speed chase on what investigators think was a stolen motorcycle Thursday morning.

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.