Statesville News

Thomasville City Council will hold a public hearing next month for a program designed to spur growth in the downtown area.

Abingdon Place of Gastonia Business Office Coordinator, Chanda Byers, left, and Executive Director Lindsey Albrecht, right, listen as resident Louise Cutting talks about the secret to living a long life during her 100th birthday party Thursday afternoon.

It costs Equipping With Truth $70 to send one child in Northern Uganda to school for a month.

Police have charged a 19-year-old with shooting a teen sitting in the same vehicle in a restaurant drive-thru in Huntersville.

A forum on race was held Wednesday night at the Statesville Civic Center during which panelists pointed out a number of gains made over the years in the relationship between races.

And so it came to no surprise to the people who know the Statesville resident that two of the three celebrity judges on NBC's "America's Got Talent" voted for him to advance to the Las Vegas round.

The state showed a dramatic drop in the amount of garbage put in landfills during the fiscal year of 2010-11, largely attributed to increases in community recycling efforts.

Crider's Photography will open a new chapter in its history in June when Phillip Crider takes the reins of the family-owned studio and opens its new location in Mooresville.

The deidcation of two of Ralph Ihrie's paintings Sunday at Providence United Methodist Church is just the latest milestone in the Statesville resident's remarkable journey.

The Fuquay-Varina Revitalization Association today announced that a local project was recognized for its excellence in the 2009 N.C. Main Street Awards competition.

Don Minor was disturbed when he learned the Ku Klux Klan was planning to stage a rally and cross burning near this rural community on Memorial Day weekend.

Yadkin Valley Financial Corporation board chairman Nolan Brown, left, and CEO Joe Towell, right, recognize Kenneth Wilcox of Boone for his years of service to the bank.

Fifty soldiers of the Royal Colony of North Carolina arrived on a hilltop near present day Statesville in 1755.

City of Statesville government offices will be closed Monday, May 28, in observance of Memorial Day.

A spokeswoman for the Iredell-Statesville School District said the family of a former student is "devastated" by criticism and media coverage about a photo of the young woman in a school yearbook.

Since arriving in Boston from rural North Carolina in early May, the new president of financially struggling Carney Hospital in Dorchester - owned by for-profit Steward Health Care System - has had a consistent message for staffers, patients, and community residents.

Jo Ann James is excited to see how God will use her book of "Biblical Cryptograms" to touch others' lives.

A Statesville man was arrested on drug charges Tuesday night after officers responded to a call of shots being fired in the area of South Tradd and Bell streets.

As many Statesville and Iredell County residents awakened on Wednesday morning, prepared a hot cup of coffee and sat down in their favorite chair to relax and read the morning newspaper, they were shocked by the front page story headlined "KKK Plans Rally." Many were dismayed and became upset about such a story on the front page of the Record & ... (more)

THIS BEAUTIFUL CAISSON that is being used in today's funeral for Cleveland Police Department officer Justin Maples is being provided by the North Carolina Highway Patrol and the North Carolina Troopers Association.