Davie County News

World War II veteran Robert Comito's ashes were supposed to be spread across the North Carolina sky.

A World War 2 veteran's ashes are back with his family after they weren't properly scattered from an airplane.

Sid Jay, franchise owner of the Lexington office of Home Instead Senior Care, poses with the gifts collected last year for the Be a Santa to a Senior Program.

Deputies had to suspend the hunt for a man accused of kidnapping a 2-month-old child.

Several Triad animal shelters have been warned that their use of carbon monoxide chambers to euthanize animals didn't comply with new state rules.

State regulators have started to enforce rules designed to ensure the humane euthanasia of animals at shelters across the state after a two-month grace period.

Poverty levels appeared generally on the rise in Northwest North Carolina in 2008, and experts say that the numbers are likely to get still higher before they come back down.

When Gov. Bev Perdue signed the Racial Justice Act in August, North Carolina became the second state in the country to have a law that tries to make sure that race is not a factor in the application of the death penalty.

When Amy Mack was growing up in the Midwest, she once asked her parents how it was that she was so lucky to have a happy, secure childhood.

A 31-year-old Davie County woman pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that she stole more than $40,000 from the law firm where she had worked for the past 10 years.

The members of Lenoir County's STEM design team have arrived at a solution - now they need to figure out how to achieve it.

A Statesville man was arrested for stealing antique engines and other items during a residential break-in in August.

A program aimed at assessing how well high-school students are prepared for a technical career will involve more than 2,000 students in 23 rural high schools in the Triad.

Since they will have the most contact and the most influence in how Lenoir County's youth learn science, technology, engineering and math, more than 600 local teachers were invited to give their input for the ongoing STEM process Thursday.

A former middle school teacher had inappropriate sexual contact with at least two underage females, according to indictments handed up by a Davie County grand jury earlier this week.

The Triad's unemployment rate dropped below 11 percent for the first time in seven months during September, falling to 10.9 percent, the N.C. Employment Security Commission reported today.

Unemployment rates decreased in 76 North Carolina counties in September, according to statistics released Friday by the state's Employment Security Commission.

A former middle- school teacher in Davie County charged with having sex with a female student made his first appearance in Davie District Court yesterday.

Published: Monday, October 19, 2009 at 4:06 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 19, 2009 at 4:06 p.m. The Mothers Against Drunk Driving organization is establishing a community action site that will represent Davidson and Davie counties.

Happy 275th birthday, Daniel Boone. It is not so often we get to acknowledge such an occasion.