Connelly Springs News

The Connelly Springs Board of Aldermen will hold its first reading of the budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year at 7 p.m. June 4. The total budget for all accounts is $768,199.45, which is up slightly from the previous year due to Community Development Block Grant projects, Town Clerk Jeanine Barus said.

Johnson is charged with conspiracy to commit murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, robbery with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit... Johnson is charged with conspiracy to commit murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, robbery with a deadly weapon and ... (more)

Sheriff's departments in two counties are investigating the deaths of a boyfriend and girlfriend who were found dead in their own homes on Monday.

A man running a body shop business next to his home was also peddling prescription pills say Burke County Narcotics Task Force investigators.

North Carolina Lt. Governor candidate Dan Forest, left, speaks with a group of men Thursday morning at Granny's Country Kitchen in Connelly Springs.