Siler City News

Two inmates at the Guilford County Jail and another woman were charged with trying to smuggle drugs into the jail.

Raleigh Charter High School has made U.S. News & World Report's 2010 list of America's 100 best high schools.

It's a rainy Saturday afternoon in late October, and I'm sitting inside a goat cheese farm's bed and breakfast near Siler City.

A convicted rapist serving a life sentence may soon be released, according to the state parole board.

Christian Hope Jones of Haw River and William Christopher Rice of Cedar Point were married at 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

Kyle Clifton and Virginia Teague Kimball of Liberty were honored with a reception Nov.

Meredith College may have fewer than 2,300 students, but these scholars, along with teachers, staff and alumna, form a loyal and fiery group.

Chris Mumma of Durham, Raymond Payne of High Point and Marcia Espinola of Siler City each received a Nancy Susan Reynolds Award yesterday from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.

The future of Siler City and western Chatham County appeared as bright as the sunny November sky Monday as Central Carolina Community College, Chatham County, Siler City, and state officials held the groundbreaking ceremony for the college's new Siler City Center.

A 66-year-old Siler City man has been arrested on charges of selling prescription pills.

Driving from Chapel Hill to Washington, D.C., after a long day at the office plus the commute to and from Greensboro was not the smartest plan.

Early in the morning on Election Day, Margie Ellison went down to her Chatham County precinct to vote.

I took a little walkabout around the Pleasant Hill UCC cemetery, visiting the final resting spots of kith, kin, old friends and neighbors, a kind of informal reunion or memorial minute.

As many fans of "The Andy Griffith Show" are aware, Frances Bavier, who played Aunt Bee, spent her waning years living in Siler City.

Chatham Animal Rescue and Education, Inc. held its 8th Annual Woof-A-Palooza dog walk fundraiser on Saturday, September 19 in Pittsboro at Central Carolina Community College in Pittsboro.

The Grand Trees of Chatham, a newly approved advisory board of the Chatham County Board of Commissioners, invites county residents to nominate extraordinary trees to be recognized through a new awards program.

Officials showed reporters dash cam video Friday recorded in the shooting of a man in Chatham County.

A man involved in a shootout with two Chatham County sheriff's deputies Thursday asked officers to shoot him and at times held his own weapon to his head, according to dashboard camera video shown to the media on Friday.

Two North Carolina sheriff's deputies were shot and wounded following a car chase, and officials say the suspect the officers were chasing was killed.

It happened after a chase that began at the Moore County line and led all the way to Siler City.