Stanly County News

Raleigh councilwoman Nancy McFarlane said Wednesday that she will resign from her position as president of the N.C. Water Rights Committee, saying her involvement with the group has become a distraction.

According to e-NC Authority's 100 County Report, at the end of 2006, 67 percent of the state's rural households had access to cable modem service versus 82 percent of the state's urban households.

Early this afternoon, a report surfaced that 30 children and adults had been swept off a bridge in Montgomery County and were missing in the Uwharrie River.

UWHARRIE A church youth group on a faith-building "survivor challenge" got into rough water Thursday, triggering a massive rescue effort on the Uwharrie River in Montgomery County.

By default, the small general aviation airports that dot the landscape are often the most poorly represented in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Low Water Bridge. Photo courtesy of Learn NC, from the UNC School of Education. A church youth group on a canoe outing got into trouble Thursday afternoon in rough water, triggering a large-scale rescue on the Uwharrie River in Montgomery County.

A relative of the victim in an alleged murder-for-hire plot said Wednesday he has been told the case could be slowed as several prosecutors leave the Stanly County District Attorney's office.

Authorities say they are confident that a North Carolina man charged with rape for an encounter arranged on Craigslist knew that it was not consensual.

A second man has been arrested in the Kannapolis Craigslist rape investigation. Police believe Rodney Liverman, Sr.

Investigators with the Kannapolis Police Department have arrested a second suspect for the rape of a Kannapolis woman which occurred on May 31, 2009.

Beverly Thomas, president of the West Stanly Colt Club, charged June 11, 2009, with embezzling money from the club.

The Rural Economic Development Institute graduated 32 people this month, including several from Western North Carolina, after an intensive, three-month leadership training program.

A motorcycle rally and poker run will be held Saturday, June 13, to benefit the Mental Health Association of Stanly County.

Documents related to Alcoa's bid for relicensing its hydroelectric project on the Yadkin River are accumulating on desks everywhere a ' in Albemarle, Salisbury, Raleigh and Washington, D.C. That includes a few desks at the Salisbury Post.

Numbers released by the North Carolina Employment Security Commission Friday showed some Anson citizens were finding jobs.

People buying raffle tickets to support charitable causes in North Carolina could win bigger jackpots in a bill heading to the governor's desk.

Heavy showers and thunderstorms continue forming this evening and moving across the Charlotte metro region.

A merger of Craven and Pamlico community colleges has been proposed in the N.C. House of Representatives and is opposed by local officials.

State legislators and Alcoa Power Generating are racing toward a costly showdown over control of Yadkin River dams.

Pfeiffer University has received an unrestricted gift of more than $1 million from the estate of William G. White, a banking executive who was a longtime supporter of the university and was a strong supporter of numerous other civic causes.