JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Police said a woman was allegedly driving drunk when she collided with a police cruiser late last week at a popular Lincolnton intersection, totaling the city vehicle. Kathleen Howard, 21, of 1289 South Aspen Street in Lincolnton, was charged with DWI and failure…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Deputies said they were forced to use a stun gun on a man accused of breaking into an area outbuilding after he escaped his handcuffs and refused to halt for officers. Deputies said they apprehended Daniel James Tench, 24, of 164 Del Mar Road…
AMANDA SEBASTIANO Staff Writer Fifth-grader Chad Theriot wasn’t expecting his rooster painting to make it beyond the walls of his art class at St. James Elementary School; he thought his farm-themed portrait was just another exercise. Theriot’s painting of a rooster was chosen for the cover of the…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer A cement truck overturned in Lincolnton Tuesday afternoon, sending the driver to a Gaston County hospital. According to Trooper Kevin Hall with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, Emergency Medical Services rushed the driver of the truck, Charles Meeks, 56, of Dallas, to Gaston Memorial Hospital…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer An infant girl remains in a Charlotte hospital’s intensive care unit after Lincoln County Sheriff’s detectives said her teen father beat her. Deputies accused Jordan Alan Minteer, 19, of 3234 Summerow Road in Lincolnton, west of U.S. 321, with fracturing his 7-week-old daughter’s skull, breaking her…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Police have recovered more than $30,000 in lawn equipment and a work truck that they said was stolen from a city residence over the weekend. The items were taken from a home on North Cedar Street Sunday night and located at Betty G. Ross Park in…
Lincoln Times-News photographers fanned out Saturday to the four Lincoln County public high school graduation events. Graduates applaud a humorous moment during Katherine Reeder’s salutatorian address at Lincolnton High. East Lincoln graduate Shana Davy gets a kiss from her father, Harlow.…
Lincoln Times-News photographers fanned out Saturday to the four Lincoln County public high school graduation events. The caps fly in a last hoorah at West Lincoln. The reception of a diploma inspires Major Kay to give a touchdown dance on the field at North Lincoln.…
Murphy Oil also seeks permit; but Fred’s Super Dollar to close SARAH LOWERY Staff Writer The former Wal-Mart building in Lincolnton may soon be home to new business yet again. Tractor Supply Company has submitted a site plan and received a zoning permit to operate a store in the former…
