Alamance News

Mark Porter had a history of domestic violence. While he was married to his wife, Lisa Porter, for only about eight months when he allegedly stabbed her to death and then set their house on fire with her in it, domestic problems seemed to be escalating in the weeks before Lisa Porter's death.

At least four North Carolina counties sought to win the $1 billion Apple data center that now appears headed for Maiden in Catawba County.

How Alamance County members of the North Carolina General Assembly voted the week ending July 10.

A day after learning that her youngest son had been killed in action in Afghanistan, Elaine Hager was still trying to make sense of the tragedy on Thursday.

The village of Alamance is getting help from the federal stimulus bill. The village received $640,000 in federal stimulus money that will be used to install a second connection to the Burlington water supply.

The Piedmont Carolina Chapter of The American Red Cross will host its 5th annual Cow Patty Bingo this Saturday at the Burlington Royals Stadium.

Authorities have charged two men with the November 2007 murder of an Alamance County woman.

Free job search classes are being offered by the Women's Resource Center. The Piedmont Job Club meets each Thursday evening from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the WRC at 411 West Fifth Street in Burlington and is open to women and men.

School is out for summer, but you can already help teachers get ready for next year.

Samet Corp. plans to begin construction later this summer on a new 104,160-square-foot speculative building at the N.C. Industrial Park in Mebane.

Some people just don't have the patience and motivation to work with children. Others, like Lindsay Smith, just have the God-given talent.

The Scotland County Board of Education voted to hire Rick Stout as its next superintendent in a 6-1 decision Wednesday night.

The state confirmed four additional cases of the Novel H1N1 flu virus in Alamance County late Friday and Monday, including one patient who is hospitalized.

Plans are under way to move a display depicting the history of money in North Carolina from Burlington's historic depot to another location after someone broke into it last week.

A Mission Fundraiser Yard Sale will be held at Crosslink Community Church, 107 North 7th St.

A Guilford County man was confirmed yesterday as the first state resident to die after contracting the H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu.

Those close to the search for a new superintendent say the finalists are assistant superintendents from Scotland and Alamance counties.

Alamance/Burlington School District leaders could scrap hundreds of teachers' jobs.

Alamance-Burlington schools are undergoing some major changes as another school year ends.

The Alamance-Burlington School system could save millions on energy costs, according to a proposal from a company that has worked with nearly 1,000 school systems in the United States since the mid-1980s. Ross Kelly, a representative of Energy Education, spoke earlier this month with members of the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education.