Lenoir News

The phone rang at the guitar shop on Tucker Road in Rugby, Virginia , as it would dozens of times each day.

Arthel "Doc" Watson, the beloved flat-picking guitar genius and one of the last direct links to the pre-recording era of traditional American folk music , has died after a fall and colon surgery.

Arthel "Doc" Watson, the master flatpicker guitar player who influenced generations of musicians with his command of traditional music and embrace of bluegrass, blues and other styles, died Tuesday at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, his manager and a hospital spokeswoman said.

A decline in global crude oil prices is driving gasoline prices downward - a welcome relief for Memorial Day weekend travelers.

May 16, 2012 - According to a press release from the California Highway Patrol, James Parsons, 41, of Lenoir, N.C., was driving a semi-truck with a trailer, traveling eastbound on Highway 44, west of Highway 36.

The incident took place at Whitnel Elementary School off Hibriten Drive SW in Lenoir around 10 a.m. A student brought suspected mercury into the school in a vial and it broke inside the classroom, according to Libby Brown with the Caldwell County School District.

John Bell, Republican challenger to incumbent N.C. House Rep. Stephen LaRoque, came out ahead by 36 votes after election results were canvassed and certified statewide on Tuesday.

The robbery happened at the Days Inn of Lenoir on Blowing Block Boulevard just after 10 p.m. Wednesday.

The Caldwell County anti-drug task force, known as the ICE Unit, raided a methamphetamine lab Tuesday.

Mike Birmingham watches his ballot disappear into the voting box after casting his vote Tuesday at the Township 7 fire department on Old Cherry Point Road.

A 6-year-old boy is in critical but stable condition after he was struck by a car Tuesday evening near his Lenoir home.

Until the final day of the filing period, a primary election was not in the cards for N.C. Senate District 45.

The Howard family, from top to right, Jeff, Tori, Dylan Stocks, Lynn, Catelyn Davis, Brett and Colton Davis, meets in a traditional Family Home Evening each week.

A A German-born immigrant, Hans Sadlak, in Burnsville, Minnesota, founded authentic granola in 1971.

A "National Bike Month is an opportunity to celebrate the unique power of the bicycle and the many reasons we ride.

Tea party activists Clay McCreary, Eddie Jolly, Christine Steele-Gates, and David Laity have manned the early voting site in Lenoir, passing out vote for marriage cards and stumping for their candidates.

From left, CCC&TI student John Thomas Whitfield of Boone, third-place winner in the N.C. Community College Art Excellence Awards; CCC&TI President Ken Boham; and CCC&TI/Caldwell Early College student Amelia Hawkins of Lenoir, recipient of an Academic Excellence Award, pose for a photo at the N.C. Community Colleges Excellence Event on April 19 in ... (more)

Lenoir police arrested a man after they say he returned to the scene of a crime three nights in a row.

Two students from the Charlotte region are among 14 winners of this year's Benjamin N. Duke Memorial Scholarships, which pay all the costs of a four-year education at Duke University.

Celebrating the Blues Heritage of the Appalachians in Historic downtown Lenoir, NC.