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By Ned Oliver NC POLICY WATCH – 3/29/2021 [Editor’s note: The chasm between the policies pursued by legislative leaders in North Carolina and Virginia continues to grow. The following stories by reporter Ned Oliver of the Virginia Mercury highlight that divergence on two high-profile issues…Read More »
UTHERFORD COUNTY, N.C. – Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office officials said Oscar Kent Wright is wanted by the Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force for possession with intent to manufacture, sell, and distribute Schedule I controlled substance, possession with intent to manufacture, sell, and distribute…Read More »
Six new grant recipients to have economic impact of more than $134 million Raleigh Apr 1, 2021 After pressing pause in 2020, film production has resumed in North Carolina with six recent grant recipients. With production levels at a six-year high so far…Read More »
Kenneth Brian Hicks is wanted on outstanding warrants. D.O.B: 08/18/1974 White Male 5’10” 200 lbs. Kenneth Brian Hicks is wanted for Failure to Appear on Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Child Abuse, Felony Probation Violation, Felony Larceny, Misdemeanor Larceny, three counts DV…Read More »
INVESTIGATION UPDATE: Missing Person Deceased, Suspects Charged and Arrested On November 21, 2020, at 3:00 AM, Deputies with the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the Econo Lodge in Forest City regarding a report of a female that had been…Read More »
RUTHERFORDTON — Former sheriff’s office employee, Lacie Felicia Boykins, 40, of Shelby who embezzled $85,790 from RCSD received no jail time in her plea deal. Boykins had pleaded guilty to five counts of embezzlement of cash proceeds by a public official/trustee on…Read More »
A demonstrator from Amnesty International holds a placard outside the Bang Kwang Central Prison to protest against the death penalty in Bangkok, Thailand, June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha1