Casar News

Jan Lankford and Robert and Tammy Brackett announce the engagement of their children, Jodie Lynn Lankford and Jerry Fuller Brackett.

Snow, ice and rain not only made commutes tricky this week but also kept kids out of school with closings and delays four days out of five.

Slick roads and snow-covered vehicles kept many people indoors Saturday and off of icy roads or close to home to enjoy the fresh snowfall.

Joanna Ellen McCullough and Timothy Harold Schwantes, both of Carrboro, were married on Sept.

Justin Gentry from Lattimore and Jim Bray and Annie Blanton of Shelby have received scholarships from Chick-fil-A. They were awarded the $1,000 scholarship from Chick-fil-A Franchised Operator Chris Beckler at the free-standing Chick-fil-A restaurant in Shelby.

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Three reports of indecent liberties surfaced from three separate addresses Friday, according to the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office Web site.

Casar Elementary students in grades 2-5 are helping make the Christmas season a little brighter for troops in Iraq.

Boiling Springs Gardner-Webb University recently held its 2009 fall commencement exercises where a total of 292 students received their diplomas.

A 76-year-old Casar man who was reported missing Wednesday night was found Thanksgiving morning down an embankment near his home, according to the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office.

An elderly man survives a crash down an embankment and is stuck in his car for more than 12 hours.

RALEIGH 5:08 AM -- The N.C. Center for Missing Persons has issued a Silver Alert for a missing endangered man, Arthur Vernon McKenzie.

CASAR Outside Casar Elementary School, a cluster of students and adults stood around a freshly dug hole on the playground Wednesday, watching as a spindly tree with bare branches was carefully unloaded from the back of the trailer and settled into the hole.

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Please send your parade details to shelbystar@shelbystar.com. Grover Saturday, Nov.

Police say a former city firefighter was charged last year with breaking into 12 homes, allegedly gaining access by false service calls.

"We've never had no one file for an entire slate of officers for a municipality." It's just one of the oddities in local fall elections Tuesday, according to Cleveland County Director of Elections Debra Blanton.

It's "old home night" for the 43-year-old healthcare group, as staff and clients continue to get used to the recent name change - now Healthy@Home - and a new relationship with other area healthcare providers.

Jessica Lauren Brotherton and Curtis Hamrick, both of Lawndale, were married on Saturday, Sept.

Cleveland County's Board of Elections is working to make polling sites friendlier for people with disabilities, thanks to a grant that will allow them to purchase ramps and more.