Morganton News

Decades after the civil rights movement, two black leaders are still hoping for more representation in elected and appointed positions.

Timothy Goode, who calls himself "Kid Rock" after the famous pop musician, has been homeless since his release from prison five years ago.

The political campaigning season in Burke County will pick up soon as the filing period opens at noon Monday.

A Burke County symposium is aiming to provide some answers on mysterious lights that have puzzled generations of observers around Brown Mountain.

Shrouded by mystery and masked by confusion, the legendary Brown Mountain Lights have defied explanation for decades.

Two Burke County men have been arrested after they allegedly broke into a home three times, with the homeowner catching them in the act on the final attempt.

Eric Breiter, Kathy Amos, principal at Mountain Crest Elementary School, and Doug Amos, a trooper with the N.C. State Highway Patrol, attend Tuesday's school superintendent search public input session.

Never having been to Morganton, we were pleasantly surprised after moving here to find such a wonderful small city with so much to do.

Ride the Bar Hopper Now for the cost of a pint of beer, you can catch a shuttle ride from bar to bar throughout downtown and West Asheville .

Barium Springs Home for Children has doubled the range of its operations in the last two years, a move that earned it the highest authorization for a provider agency and a $200,000 grant from the Duke Endowment.

The Kings Mountain High School graduate made several informal campaign stops in Cleveland County this weekend.

Court of Appeals Judge Sam J. Ervin IV announced that he will run for the one Supreme Court seat open for election in November - that of sitting Justice Paul M. Newby, who is seeking re-election. Ervin, the grandson of Senate Watergate Committee chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr., has served on the Court of Appeals since January 2009.A Prior to that he ... (more)

The 26-year-old has professionally raced the two-wheeled, mud-slinging machines on four continents and is currently in Florida for training.

The winners of Full Circle Arts "Art About Women" were announced on Thursday, February 2 to an overflow crowd at the gallery's new/old location at 29 Second Street NW in downtown Hickory.

A symposium scheduled in Morganton next month aims to solve the centuries-old mystery of the Brown Mountain Lights, an apparently real scientific phenomenon that's been the subject of science fiction TV and National Geographic programming.

Mr. N. Clark Hatcher Jr., 81, of Morganton and Mount Airy, died peacefully at the home in Mount Airy on Friday, Feb.

When Lucille Rutherford was in her 20s and 30s, she loved going to see Westerns at the Alva Theater in downtown Morganton.

"My parents ingrained in me that there wasn't any difference between myself and anyone else.

Morganton native and North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge Sam J. "Jimmy" Ervin IV announced Thursday his intention to run for a seat on the N.C. Supreme Court.

Having seen the city through the establishment of CoMPAS and city hall, attorney Steve Settlemyer is looking forward to having time off to indulge in his hobbies, spend time with his wife and see his grandchildren grow.