Sunday morning at 2:09 a.m., officers from the Forest City Police Department were dispatched to the Owls Nest on West Trade Street in Forest City in reference to shots fired in the parking lot of the business.
On Wednesday the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to 1133 Old US Highway 74 reference to a domestic dispute.
Michael James Martin, 34, of Nebo, was arrested Monday evening on warrants spanning across three counties, including Rutherford, McDowell and Burke.
Matthew Scott Lail, 19, was killed and C.J. Sappenfield, 20, was critically injured in a single vehicle crash at 2:08 a.m. Wednesday on Bostic-Sunshine Highway.
Senate Republicans are handing off their vision of North Carolina's state budget to their House counterparts.
President Barack Obama's nominee for transportation secretary — Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx — received a friendly reception from senators of both parties Wednesday laced with warnings that the nation needs to make a host of transportation improvements with no clear way to pay for them.
The North Carolina government budget written by Senate Republicans has passed following a fiercely partisan debate that mostly focused upon a yet-to-be-detailed tax overhaul plan and on Medicaid.
Hannah Scruggs, rising senior at Rutherford Early College High School, has been selected to attend Governor's School of North Carolina.
Spindale Elementary school was full of proud parents on Monday.
A proposal to give grants to North Carolina students to attend private or religious schools has been retooled to target low-income families. But it's not enough for opponents who argue the plan is a voucher system that will debilitate the public schools.
A band of thunderstorms battered the Oklahoma City area Thursday, slowing cleanup operations in the suburb where a tornado killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes this week.
President Barack Obama's nominee for transportation secretary — Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx — received a friendly reception from senators of both parties Wednesday laced with warnings that the nation needs to make a host of transportation improvements with no clear way to pay for them.
The cost of a massive tornado that battered an Oklahoma City suburb could be more than $2 billion, according to a preliminary official estimate announced Wednesday. State authorities meanwhile said two infants were among the 24 people who perished in the twister.
