Morganton News

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Morganton Public Safety arrested and charged 17 year-old Jayson Alspaugh with breaking and entering, felony larceny, and possession of stolen goods.

Law Enforcement officers closed several roads in Moore County due to the flooding, including Morganton Road between Doral Woods and N.C. 5. The heavy rains were a result of Topical Storm Andrea, which is rapidly moving up the East Coast of the U.S. The National Weather Service placed Moore County under a flash flood warning until 4 p.m. today and a ... (more)

The Appalachian Mountain Girls are Rita Scott of Lansing on fiddle; Amy Boucher of Independence, Va., on banjo; Jean Callison of Mouth of Wilson on guitar and Katherine Higgins of Mouth of Wilson on bass.

A Morganton man was convicted this week for failing to register as a sex offender, according to a release from the Office of the District Attorney.

Detectives in Morganton are looking for the thieves who broke into Forest Hill Elementary sometime Monday night and stole two dozen Mac Books from the Media Center office.

Public safety officers in Morganton are stepping up patrols around an elementary school on Wednesday after thieves stole more than $30,000 in computers.

Tens of thousands of long-term unemployed workers will be suddenly cut off from their benefits July 1, a reality that many of the affected don't realize.

The largest mental institutions in North Carolina aren't the state psychiatric hospitals in Butner, Goldsboro and Morganton.

Southern Pines and Pinehurst public safety officials came together Wednesday afternoon to clear a massive traffic backup when a section of U.S. 15-501 was closed because of a gas line rupture.

Warren Buffett 's purchase of The Roanoke Times , announced Thursday, is the latest piece of a jigsaw puzzle being put in place.

Another new brewery is opening in Asheville this summer, this time in the Biltmore Village area.

Caldwell County's unemployment rate continued to fall in April, dropping more than half a percentage point from the previous month and hitting the lowest rate the county has seen since fall of 2008.

Several investigations and arrests kept Blowing Rock police officers busy this past week.

Pinehurst will implement a 25 mph speed limit through the village's neighborhood streets later this summer as a means of increasing safety.

Scott and Billy Pyatt, co-owners of Catawba Valley Brewing, surprised almost everyone when they announced the location of their second brewery.

Scott Hildebran, Blowing Rock Town Manager, has resigned, effective July 12. Hildebran, who has served as Town Manager since 2003, announced his decision to Blowing Rock Mayor JB Lawrence and the Town Council in a meeting on May 20.

Authorities are searching for an inmate at Lincoln Correctional Center who disappeared from a work release program.

The High Country's local food cooperative is growing faster than weeds in a wet spell.