Staff report A large fire has broken out at an abandoned cotton mill on Massapoag Road in Lincolnton. Firefighters and crews from multiple agencies were on the scene after the fire started just before 6 p.m. Monday. Check back with the Lincoln Times-News for more details as they become available.…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public’s help in identifying two men who they said broke into a western county store on Sunday. Surveillance video from Half Way Supply, located at 889 North N.C. 18 in Vale, recorded the…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer At least three Maiden residents have been charged with possessing items for making methamphetamine at a residential property west of U.S. 321, near the county’s northern end, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies charged the individuals after they said they located numerous drug…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer More than 30 employees at a Lincoln County manufacturing plant for tortilla chips and other corn-based snack items were exposed to carbon monoxide Monday afternoon inside the facility. Director of Emergency Medical Services Ronald Rombs said that while 34 workers at R. W. Garcia had been exposed, they…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Deputies were quick to apprehend five suspects, including four teens, within minutes after the group allegedly broke into a Lincolnton home over the weekend. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said the following individuals were taken into custody Saturday evening: Brittany Nicole…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer A Lincolnton man appeared in court Friday morning, one day after deputies said they placed him behind bars for not only using a glass vase and baseball bat to assault his girlfriend but for also assaulting neighbors and officers in the incident. Deputies arrested Donald Michael Hoyle, 34, of 2348 Tin Mine Road, just…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Two Shelby men have been charged with stealing a motorcycle from a Lincoln County murder site, the Sheriff’s Office said. The men told deputies just after 3:30 p.m. Wednesday that they were at Rosehill Drive in Lincolnton to repossess one of the resident’s Harley Davidson. An…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Part of a Lincoln County public building sustained fire damage Tuesday night after police said someone set a homeless man’s cart on fire near the structure. The Department of Social Services building received about $20,000 in damage in the fiery incident, according to a police report. Officers and firefighters…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer A second teen involved in a high-speed chase through Lincoln and two other surrounding counties this past fall will head to state prison. Brandon Bridges, 19, of Little River, S.C., received five consecutive sentences Tuesday in a Gaston County Superior courtroom, the Clerk of Court’s Office said. He pleaded guilty…
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