Burlington News

Owner Chellappa Yasin has put together a menu that features chicken, lamb and goat and seafood along with chefs specials.

Children who will be 4 or older on or before Aug. 31 may be eligible to register for pre-kindergarten classes for the 2012-13 school year.

On April 1, 1950, fate's joke was cruel, claiming the life of Dr. Charles Richard Drew through injuries he received in an auto accident outside Haw River.

THUMBS DOWN to the situation that is pitting Faith Builders International Church on May Drive with its neighbors over the issue of noise.

Things are taking off there these days in more ways than one, said Dan Danieley, the airport's director.

Burlington City Councilman Stephen M. Ross will run as a Republican candidate for the N.C. House of Representatives District 63 seat.

Before the opening bell the Burlington, N.C.-based company, which provides a wide range of medical test services, reported a fourth-quarter profit of $135.4 million, or $1.34 a share.

A 23-year-old man is the third person to be charged in last weekend's slaying of a Burlington woman.

Keith Antonio Graves, 23, of Everett Street, Burlington , was charged with first-degree murder at about 5 p.m. Thursday.

The Greensboro Partnership , the city's chief economic and community development organization, has a new to-do list.

The City Council on Wednesday approved a request from Mike Townsend, who owns the former Walmart store at 4801 Fayetteville Road, to apply on his behalf for a grant from the N.C. Rural Center to renovate the 22,000-square-foot building.

The Centre of Performing Arts will present "The Doll That Couldn't Dance" at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Paramount Theater in Burlington.

KidsPath and Hospice of Alamance Caswell is holding Teen Retreat: An evening for teens who have had someone die on Feb.

Napoleon Brown, 23, of 2103 McKinney St., was arrested by Burlington police, and he is being held without bond in the Alamance County Jail.

Burlington police said Andrew Napoleon Brown, 23, of 2103 McKinney St. was arrested today and charged with first-degree murder.

Sponsored by McDonald's, the event starts at 4 p.m. in the Paramount Theater at 128 E. Front St.

Although people in Burlington now have to travel to Greensboro in order to see the circus, there was a time when circuses stopped regularly in town, and there are still many older people who recall performances on the old Fonville Lot, just off North Church Street.

Calling it a "heinous crime," a superior court judge sent a Burlington man to prison after he pleaded guilty to cheating an elderly woman out of nearly $150,000. The woman - who continued to work a job into her eighties, before her health began to fail - is now 82, in a nursing home and on the verge of losing the property she and her husband owned ... (more)

According to a press release, at 8:30 p.m., police were called to Alamance Regional Medical Center in reference to an assault.

According to police, a woman was shot and killed early Saturday night during a robbery at an apartment on Stout Street in Burlington.