Morganton News

On a foggy December morning in 2009, Christopher Parrott was shot and killed at his Marion Street home.

Billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast, and they've already been spotted in North Carolina.

Dozens of competittors from across the Carolinas competed in the downhill racing.

Dan and Lisa Holt listen in court as the jury awards them $3 million in the death of their son, Hunter.

From the Asheville Police Department: Asheville - The Asheville Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in locating 27 year old Miranda Elizabeth Jackson.

In a 2009 photo, two crosses and flowers were placed in the median at the intersection of Riverpointe Drive and N.C. 49 after the crash that killed three.

RALEIGH Students would have to be taught that abortion increases the risk for subsequent premature births under a bill a Senate committee approved Wednesday.

MORGANTON, N.C. Officials said Monday that seven inches of rain over the weekend caused multiple sewer spills in Morganton.

Heavy rain fell throughout the Charlotte region, breaking at least one precipitation record, sparking flash flood warnings, and generally making the morning commute a mess.

Moments of anticipation and anxiety start coming to them around this time every year, when Bill and Angie Warren sometimes scramble to make phone calls and other last-minute preparations for the oldest annual festival in Caldwell County.

Police say 29-year-old Donelle Nicholas Cuthbertson led law enforcement on a fast-paced chase down Interstate 40 and winding through Burke County back roads.

After scouting trees and mapping routes for several weeks, workers from Beanstock Builders recently began constructing the decks and attaching the steel lines for two separate canopy tours at Riverbanks.

Just to get power in a local city some people now have to pay $400 up front. The cost recently doubled and now people in Morganton are so upset that they started a petition to scale back that increase.

A 42-year-old Morganton man was sentenced to at least 26 2/3 years in prison after being convicted Friday in a Burke County courtroom on two counts of felony sex offense.

The Morganton native is the fleet manager at Sale Auto Mall - and he has no intentions of retiring anytime soon.

Volunteer firefighters and paramedics across the Foothills honored one of their own Saturday who died while serving the people of Burke County.

Foothills Regional Airport hosts its annual regional social gathering today and is expecting pilots from airports from across neighboring states, one of the latest bright spots of activity at a pastoral airport still under the cloud of a federal investigation.

A Honduras man will be deported after serving time for a sex offense charge he was convicted of Friday, according to a release from the District Attorney's Office.

Three former Gov. Beverly Perdue's supporters agreed to pay fines Wednesday, wrapping up a long-running probe into undisclosed benefits to the Democrat's 2008 campaign, a prosecutor said.

Beverly Perdue has been charged with obstructing justice and is scheduled to appear at a court hearing that could hasten the end of a long-running case involving undisclosed private plane flights for Perdue during her 2008 campaign, a state prosecutor said Tuesday.