Rowan County News

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

Anew book is devoted to the sweet life of North Carolina bakers. Sweet Carolina has more than 220 recipes from home cooks.

This beautiful gilt bronze dancer by Agathon Leonard will be sold at a multi-estate sale Dec.

Two major employers have announced they are closing their doors in Salisbury. Diane Greene with the Rowan County Economic Development Corporation said W.A. Brown and Son is closing.

The prosecutor handling the campaign finance case of former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley said he wants to decide by February whether to seek criminal charges against the two-term Democrat.

Concord police say they've arrested a man who robbed two gas station convenience stores Monday morning.

A Mt. Ulla man faces charges of breaking into a Mooresville auto shop and taking a four-wheeler. Sheriff Phil Redmond said that on Oct.

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

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

Iredell County resident Jonathan E. Fultz died of injuries sustained from a single vehicle wreck in Rowan County on Saturday.

Robbers dressed in Halloween costumes terrify a Rowan County couple. One of the victims spoke exclusively with NewsChannel 36.

A Rowan County, NC man shot an armed intruder in self defense, saving himself and his father from a second violent home invasion that week.

Two arrests have been made in a home invasion, robbery and shootout in a Rowan County home.

A homeowner shot a person who broke into a home in Rowan County on Friday afternoon, investigators said.

A North Carolina district attorney has asked to be recused from investigating whether former Gov.

Foy Allen Edelman has assembled quite a collection of stories and recipes in "Sweet Carolina: Favorite Desserts and Candies from the Old North State" from the University of North Carolina Press.

Mark Simila installs an Electrified Parking Space pod at the Big Boys Truck Stop off I-95 in Johnston County on Monday.

A Rowan County farm and N.C. State University have won a grant to try to lengthen the strawberry growing season so North Carolina farmers can better compete with berries from California and Florida.

Authorities charged and arrested a China Grove man on Thursday in the attempted sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl earlier this week in the South Rowan branch of the Rowan County Library.

Investigators charged a man from Kannapolis, NC with child abuse after officers tracked him down using his own GPS unit.