Cabarrus County News

Harrisburg mayoral candidates Phil Cowherd and incumbent Tim Hagler spent much of Election Day campaigning and making last-minute pitches to voters.

Niblock Development has asked to be allowed to delay payment on Cabarrus County's Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance fees for its Waterford on the Rocky River development.

Arrests a Vanessa Ragland, 46, of 518 Mason St. was arrested Nov. 4. Felony possesion of a schedule II controlled substance.

Macon Mayor Robert Reichert would like to hire a North Carolina paramedic to replace longtime Emergency Management Agency Director Johnny Wingers, who retired earlier this year.

Chief Judge Joe Mingo said it is the precinct that everyone looks to for a decisive answer on election results.

The Cabarrus Health Alliance was awarded a $15,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of $3.25 million awarded to The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality to fight childhood obesity.

HARRISBURG a ' A member of the state board of education encouraged students and staff at Hickory Ridge High School on Thursday to tell it on the mountain and all over Cabarrus County about their latest accomplishment.

HARRISBUG a ' For the majority of her high school years, Kristen Harris planned her October weekends around which Halloween-themed amusements she and her friends would visit.

The turnout at Cabarrus County's One Stop Early Voting has been slow compared to last year's record turnout during the presidential election and compared to the last municipal election in 2007, but that only makes it more convenient, say those who voted Tuesday.

Occupation Management consultant; Logistics specialist for manufacturer's rep industrial electrical equipment Education Bachelor's degree in business administration, Gardner-Webb University What life and professional experiences do you feel will help you, if elected? I started and grew a health care business for 12 years.

The state's history office is taking the last steps on a long road toward writing a 600,000-word essay on North Carolina - at about 400 words a clip.

Occupation A contractor in the Financial Intelligence Unit at a bank. Education Associate degree in Business Mgmt and a Dale Carnegie School of Speech and Business graduate.

Cabarrus County commissioners are considering alternate locations for the county's proposed $6.5 million office complex because improvements to the old county fairgrounds will be expensive, county officials said.

A portion of a Cabarrus County road will be closed for the next two weeks for construction, according to the N.C. Department of Transportation.

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

A woman was killed when her car was struck by a tanker truck before dawn Monday.

When Republican state Rep. Jeff Barnhart began serving as a Cabarrus County commissioner almost 20 years ago, there were fewer people like himself, then a recent upstate New York transplant, living on the edges of Charlotte.

The Fifth Annual Swing for the Kids Golf Tournament was held Monday, at the Cabarrus Country Club in Concord.

KANNAPOLIS a ' Kannapolis, Mooresville and Iredell County are submitting a corridor study plan to widen N.C. 3 to the N.C. Department of Transportation.

NorthEast President Mark Nantz and Bob Kinney, the chairman of the Board of Advisors at CMC-NorthEast, rolled up their sleeves on Friday to give blood samples, as the hospital begins the push for staff to enroll in the MURDOCK Study.