Rowan County News

According to the victim, she recognized the distinct smell of bar-be-cue and when she went to investigate saw a man looking at her while she was in her bedroom Wednesday night.

Construction in mid-1950s on part of the original section of Interstate 85 at the Yadkin River.

When civic leaders boasted that having the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte was a chance to showcase the great things about living and working in North Carolina, they probably didn’t have recent events in mind.

Two Vance County high schools nearly lost a neighbor in a process that displeased the state's athletic association executive director, and we worry the repercussions may be felt by member schools in a negative way.

A Davidson County Commissioner was charged Sunday night with operating a motorboat while impaired and failing to cooperate with an officer with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.

A Rowan County teacher has been suspended after a video surfaced in which she suggests that a student could be arrested for criticizing President Barack Obama.

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. Rowan-Cabarrus Community College's plans for its Rowan County bond projects are moving more slowly than anticipated, and the college has been surprised it is not able to afford as much as it thought, staff for the college said this week.

Using information gathered from confidential informants, the Rowan County Sheriff's Office ACE Team, the Kannapolis Police Department and the Mooresville Police Department teamed up to arrest five suspects in response to citizen complaints of street-level sales of drugs, according to a police report.

SPENCER, N.C. A teacher at a Rowan County school has been suspended after getting national attention for a YouTube video video that surfaced last week showing her yelling at her students, saying it's wrong to criticize the president.

That ugly A-word is back in the news again - annexation. Last week, N.C. House Reps.

SALISBURY, N.C. Police are trying to find out who stole six vehicles, including one extremely rare classic car, in Salisbury last month.

Johnson was arrested in Salisbury on Tuesday and charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon, assault by pointing a gun and resisting, obstructing and delay of a public officer.

A judge has reportedly cleared two former East Spencer firefighters and an ex-police officer in connection with the shocking of a junior firefighter at a department Christmas party.

A student at Jesse Carson High School reported her car stolen around 9 a.m. Tuesday, China Grove Police said.

As his competition endured criticism for questioning President Barack Obama's birthplace, congressional candidate Scott Keadle of North Carolina took the high road last week and said he hadn't spent "two seconds of my life thinking" about Obama's birthplace.

Mecklenburg ACTS, a local group opposed to high-stakes testing, demonstrates using a routine with oversized pencils outside the Westin on May 11, 2012, where a conference that involves test-makers is taking place.

The owner of a local pressure washing business is in jail under $50,000 bond after being hit with drug charges by investigators at the Rowan County Sheriff's Office.

North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue makes a brief appearance on Thursday May 3, 2012 to announce the limited opening of new I-85 bridge over Yadkin River.

A missing teenage girl from Rowan County is on her way home a month to the day she'd last been seen.

A four-mile stretch of the interstate is being expanded from two lanes to four lanes in each direction.