Catawba County News

The judge handling the case against a Florida man charged with shooting to death a state trooper last year said this morning he will move the trial to Catawba County.

Investigators with the Catawba County Sheriff's Department are looking for two men who they say robbed a convenience store in Hickory on Saturday, June 28.

Area officials will make a major economic development announcement on Monday, but still won't say if it concerns the location of Apple Inc.'s new $1 billion data center.

The man charged with the murder of Travis Baker, made his first court appearance today and remains in the custody of the Catawba County jail.

CHARLOTTE County officials are keeping quiet, but signs are starting to point to the Catawba County town of Maiden as the site of Apple's new $1 billion data center, The Charlotte Observer reported.

A store clerk is bound, gagged and robbed. Now, officers hope surveillance video will help them put two dangerous suspects behind bars.

The Maiden Town Council will join representatives of the Catawba County Board of Commissioners and the county's Economic Development Corp.

The man accused killing a Catawba County teenager in 2007 is due in court today.

Somewhere in this state, somebody is trying to figure out how to give more financial aid to Apple.

A Winter Garden man has been accused of killing a 19-year-old from North Carolina who disappeared more than two years ago.

The General Assembly changed its corporate-tax law to favor Apple Inc. after fears that the technology giant would take its $1 billion data center to Virginia, state documents released yesterday show.

A 46-year-old man has been arrested in Florida and is charged in the murder of Travis Baker, a 19-year-old Catawba County man whose disappearance more than two years ago has been the subject of numerous searches.

The State Bureau of Investigation found skeletal remains that they believe could be Travis Baker, a teenager who disappeared more than two years ago.

The Lincolnton man who escaped from a correctional facility in Dallas was captured on Tuesday in Catawba County according to authorities.

By Melany Dawn Crouse CATAWBA COUNTY - A fire destroyed a barn located at 5595 Highway 16 on Monday afternoon in Catawba County, not far from the Catawba-Lincoln County line.

What is the answer for a struggling economy? Some experts think the best way to stimulate the economy is through food assistance money, formerly called food stamps.

The Claremont man accused of running a large-scale Ponzi scheme for years, taking millions of dollars from investors, faces 21 additional felony charges.

The Catawba County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved its $248 million 2009-10 budget Wednesday without an increase in property taxes, but increasing spending on education.

A family was displaced from their apartment on 3rd Avenue NW in Hickory after a house fire Monday night.

Two people were killed this weekend in Catawba County when the car they were riding in was struck by another vehicle.