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Andy Barker, founder of Love Valley, dies

Jeter A. “Andy” Barker, the founder, longtime mayor, heart and soul of the town of Love Valley, died Thursday morning at a local hospice. He was 87.

08/11/2011 11:18 PM

Search continues for fugitive husband and wife

Officers around the state are on the lookout for a couple accused of assaulting a deputy following a high-speed chase through Alexander County’s Vashti community Tuesday.

08/11/2011 8:27 PM
Motorist, 79, dies in train, minivan crash

The driver, an elderly Lenoir man, was the only person in the van when the crash occurred.

08/10/2011 5:44 PM
McHenry hears voters' frustration

Residents of Burke County are frustrated with the political theater of Republicans and Democrats in Washington, D.C., and they let U.S. Congressman Patrick McHenry, R-10th N.C., hear their feelings Tuesday during a lunch with Burke County Chamber of Commerce and a town hall meeting later in the evening.

08/10/2011 4:34 PM
Sawdust pit fire in Hudson put out; no injuries

A sawdust pit fire at Stat Incorporated on Eli Lane in Hudson is out, according to the Caldwell County Fire Marshal’s office and four county fire departments on the scene.

08/09/2011 12:49 PM
Man dies after fall onto rocks

Law enforcement believes a man died Saturday night after getting out of his pickup truck, which was stuck on the side of the road. The Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office was called about an injured person at 4700 Bills Lane at about 9:15 p.m., said Detective B.J. Fore.

08/01/2011 7:47 PM
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08/01/2011 1:11 PM
Lenoir man arrested on meth charge

A man was arrested in Lenoir Monday and charged with operating a methamphetamine lab. Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office charged Randy Allen Bentley, 47, of 3000 Harper Court No. 2, Lenoir, with one felony count of manufacture of methamphetamine, said Sheriff Alan Jones.

07/26/2011 10:46 AM
Caldwell man's rainwater conservation saves family thousands

Richard Gardner's engineering project provides a system of that collects rain water that lowers his month bill, and provide enough water to wash clothes, cars, flush toilets and other needs for his family.

07/24/2011 5:39 PM
Hildebran firm lays off employees

A majority of employees at International Legwear Group in Hildebran were told on Friday it was their last day. Employees were told the company is restructuring, according to unnamed sources at the company. Sources say company officials were negotiating with creditors.

07/22/2011 6:03 PM
Accused puppy mill operator in court on cruelty charges

William Thomas Allen, 54, was in court Thursday on 104 misdemeanor animal cruelty charges relating to what many have called a puppy mill.

07/21/2011 7:00 PM
Kyle Busch's court date continued to Aug. 23

The court appearance for NASCAR driver Kyle Busch was postponed from Wednesday to Aug. 23.

07/20/2011 5:59 PM
Man pleads guilty to raping child

A 67-year-old man accused of raping a 15-year-old boy and then trying to arrange his murder will spend the next decade behind bars.

07/20/2011 6:00 AM
Teen charged with arson in Granite Falls apartment fire

A teenager was charged with arson more than a month after a fire that destroyed three apartments and damaged a fourth. Granite Falls police say Dalton Huffstetler, 16, started a fire in the living room of the apartment he shared with his mother and older brother on May 31. At 10:30 p.m. that night, Huffstetler’s mother was home asleep. His older brother was at a friend’s house, said Sgt. Roger Crosby with the Granite Falls Police Department. There were 10 other people in the surrounding three apartments. All escaped before the fire spread.

07/19/2011 6:27 PM
Accused Granite Falls trafficker busted

Accused hydrocodone trafficker, Robert Lee Curtis Jr., 55, of Granite Falls was arrested following an undercover investigation by the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office’ Inner-county Counterdrug Enforcement unit, better known as Ice.

07/11/2011 6:30 PM
New details emerge in Dulatown murder

The Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office has announced that the man murdered in the Dulatown area of Caldwell County west of Lenoir was Alvin Louis Dula Jr., 44, of Lenoir.

07/11/2011 5:39 PM
'Trophy' property up for auction in Iredell

Dream Catcher Farms is no ordinary property, so it’s no surprise that it is being sold in a way that has brought prospective buyers from across the nation to Iredell County.The 209-acre farm – which was previously for sale for $10 million – boasts of horse stables, a sports complex, a caretaker’s house, a fully stocked fishing pond and all the amenities needed for a functioning equestrian farm, said Cole Richardson, whose whose family owns the property off Snow Creek Road.

07/09/2011 11:44 PM
Lenoir man arrested for drug trafficking

A Lenoir man was arrested Thursday and charged with six counts of trafficking in prescription pills following an undercover investigation by the Caldwell County Inner-County Counter-Drug Enforcement, better known as the ICE Unit.

07/08/2011 3:21 PM
Caldwell County animal shelter gets help

When Kim Alboum recently came to Caldwell County Animal Control to help them with the hundreds of animals it seized from a breeder, she knew she couldn’t leave the shelter without offering additional help. “We would be remiss to leave the county without focusing our resources on the shelter,” said Alboum, the North Carolina director for the Humane Society of the United States. “A grant paid for the (puppy mill dogs’) care, but all these people wanted to help.” Caldwell County Animal Control busted a kennel that was suspected of breeding dogs in a large-scale operation three weeks ago, and the community praised the organization for its quick actions.

07/08/2011 10:11 AM
Assistant District Attorney Eric Bellas reinstated after DWI arrest

On Thursday afternoon, the District Attorney’s Office announced that Assistant District Attorney Eric Bellas had been returned to active duty effective Tuesday.

07/07/2011 8:15 PM
Suspected counterfeit ring busted

Authorities have rounded up three people on charges of counterfeiting and conspiracy since a raid on a local warehouse uncovered nearly 50,000 clothing items suspected of being counterfeit.

07/07/2011 6:00 AM
Man killed in Lenoir while riding lawnmower across a highway

A man on a riding lawnmower was killed Friday night just before 7 p.m. as he tried to cross a four-lane highway while towing a trailer.

07/01/2011 8:19 PM
Man stabbed over dispute about dog's death

A man was arrested Wednesday night after investigators say he stabbed someone following a dispute about the death of a dog.

06/30/2011 4:59 PM
Two arrested in Granite Falls cocaine bust

What started as a routine traffic stop ended up as roadside fisticuffs then a pair of cocaine-related arrests during a drug bust.

06/29/2011 1:51 PM
Two arrested for stealing from marina

Two people have been arrested for thefts of boating equipment at a marina during the last two weeks and more charges are expected, according to the Alexander County Sheriff’s Office. Boyfriend and girlfriend Nicholas Paul Bowman and Cynthia Gail Proctor have been charged with stealing a boat motor from a marina along Lake Hickory, said Capt. Keith Warren with the sheriff’s office. He said the sheriff’s office initially received information about the theft of boat parts from Crime Stoppers.

06/28/2011 6:44 PM