Maiden News

TODAY Awards show West Lincoln High School, 172 Shoal Rd. in Lincolnton, will host their annual awards day ceremony starting 8:30 a.m. in the gymnasium.

Apple's data center in Maiden, North Carolina is the location of the nation's largest end-user-owned solar photovoltaic array, and the array produces onsite renewable energy to the iDataCenter.

Dustin Thomas Rhodes, 28, of 1638 Roseland Dr. in Lincolnton was charged May 10 with one count of driving while impaired.

A tent revival will be held at 7:30 p.m. nightly May 14-18 under the big tent on Main Street and Hawthorne Lane, featuring evangelist Scott Callahan of Fort Mill.

Bryan Fischer has previously stated that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people should face job discrimination and implied that members of the community should be " delivered " from homosexual behavior.

A Charlotte hedge fund manager has agreed to plead guilty to securities fraud for hiding investment losses that cost his victims at least $8.9 million, according to court documents.

Lincolnton resident LaDonna Mabe has been rescuing dogs her entire life, but it wasn't until a year ago this spring, she started her own official rescue group, Happy Tails Rescue, Inc., which she operates out of her home on West Amber Drive, she said.

Samuel Ray Noblitt, 53, of 4173 N.C. 182 in Crouse was charged April 24 with one misdemeanor count of larceny.

MerleFest 2013, presented by Lowe's, held the Doc Watson Guitar Championship and the Merle Watson Bluegrass Banjo Contest on Friday, April 26.

When Hurricane Sandy decimated a large portion of the East Coast last year, companies and their data centers wound up without electricity for days or, in some cases, even weeks.