Salisbury News

Now that this year's session of the General Assembly is over, I would like to use this monthly column to discuss some important legislation from this past session in more detail.

A Salisbury-area manufacturer has quietly added 165 jobs since the beginning of the year thanks to federal stimulus program.

According to eurweb.com passengers on a church bus were caught in the middle of a shootout Sunday in Salisbury, North Carolina.

State-sponsored North Carolina's Amtrak kicks off its station recycling program on America Recycles Day on Sunday, Nov.

In many ways it's odd that passenger rail service to Asheville is considered a pipedream in many corners.

One of the more difficult tasks facing early childhood educators and foster parents is dealing with children's emotions a ' especially the negative ones.

Acouple weeks before Veterans Day, I went down to the World War II Memorial on the Mall to join Bob and Elizabeth Dole and a group of elderly soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen from her hometown of Salisbury, N.C. They had been flown to Washington that morning to get their first view of the nation's tribute to the troops that helped defeat ...

North Carolina officials say they have identified a Civil War shipwreck that burned at sea more than 145 years ago.

Nearly 20 years in Rowan County has convinced N.C. Transportation Museum Executive Director Elizabeth Smith that this is home.

A couple of weeks before Veterans Day, I went down to the World War II Memorial on the Mall to join Bob and Elizabeth Dole and a group of elderly soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen from her hometown of Salisbury, N.C., who had been flown to Washington that morning to get their first view of the nation's tribute to the troops that helped defeat ...

Same-sex relationships go against Scripture and morality, according to a letter mailed Monday by members of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bessemer City.

Salisbury, N.C. Food Lion said Tuesday that Eric Watson, VP talent acquisition, has been named recipient of The Diversity Forum's first-ever Diversity Champion Award.

The annual Buncombe County Schools All County Choral Clinic will be held for high school students at 7 p.m. tonight at Arden Presbyterian Church, 2215 Hendersonville Rd.

Laney Carmel Hawes of Shallotte and Robert Craig Pierce of Shallotte were married Oct.

Published: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 5:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 2:13 a.m. About 50 Lexington residents learned more about the men and women running for the city council Tuesday night during a Lexington Candidate Forum held at the Davidson County Agricultural Building.

After 13 years in Mayville, Dottie and Geoffrey Hoy are pulling up their roots and moving to a warmer climate to start their retirement.

How long would it take for a person to accumulate 1,484 volunteer hours? Ask Diamond Smith, an eighth-grader at Southeast Middle School and she'll tell you six summers, hours of after school time and some holidays thrown in the mix.

WINGATE -- The Coast Guard rescued three people in the Hooper Strait near Wingate on Saturday.

Among several solar installations coming in North Carolina, Food Lion and National Gypsum are adding rooftop solar.

A 3-month-old North Carolina girl is hospitalized with multiple injuries, and her caregiver is jailed on an abuse charge.