Chatham County News

She lies by the side of the road as cars rush by her resting place, perhaps all this while silently waiting for her story to be told.

An elections watchdog group warned today that voters could face long lines at the polls in November, judging from increases in voter registration.

Union workers at the Moncure Plywood plant in Chatham County are on strike today after rejecting the company's contract offer.

CHATHAM COUNTY, N.C. Rescue crews recovered the body of a Garner man in Jordan Lake.

Authorities late Saturday were working to determine the identity of a man who drowned in Jordan Lake on Saturday afternoon.

Chatham County crews spent hours on Jordan Lake searching for the body of a 47-year-old man.

More than two dozen commuters have returned to area park and ride lots to discover that their vehicles no longer had a catalytic converter.

UNC Health Care System and Chatham Hospital have signed a letter of intent for UNC Health Care to purchase the 25-bed critical access facility in Siler City for $11.3 million.

Kendrick Edwards has spent the last few years buying and restoring old automobiles and just started working at the Pittsboro Body Shop a month ago.

In earlier times, quilt making was a communal activity -- and it remains so today at Carolina Meadows.

Chatham County residents should find it easier to access more maps and information using the county's new Geographic Information Systems Web site.

CHATHAM COUNTY, N.C. Another banking scam incident has been reported in Chatham County.

When Chatham County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a disturbance at 739 Old US 1, Moncure on July 5, someone held a gun above a crowd and shot at the deputies.

Thousands of Orange County residents are spending the holiday weekend in the dark after torrential rainstorms caused fallen power lines and flooding.

The University of North Carolina has posted campus police officers in the Chatham County park-and-ride and Friday Center parking lots after a rash of thefts from those locations.

On the heels of a weekend bike accident in Chatham County, a bike event called Durham's Critical Mass is getting ready for its monthly awareness ride on Thursday.

Every year, there are more than 900 crashes between motorists and bicycle riders in North Carolina.

Sometimes, it's better to look like a jailbird than sport a birthday suit. Police say Bill Merit, 49, left the Chatham County jail and began walking by the side of the road, naked.

One of the men who escaped the Chatham County jail in February has been sentenced to almost nine years in prison for the crimes he committed during the escape.

For the third time in three years, the bilingual mental health center El Futuro will receive no funding from Orange County.