FRANK TAYLOR Managing Editor With new election districts for the first time in four decades, candidates have begun filing to run for the Lincoln County Board of Education. Five candidates so far have filed to run, according the Lincoln County Board of Elections website, with the filing window remaining…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Troopers said alcohol and speed contributed to the death of a western Lincoln County man, who ran off the road and struck a tree not far from his residence on Friday. Douglas Powell White, 46, of 7811 Rose Ridge Lane in Vale, was…
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…
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…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer A Catawba man has confessed to killing a young woman who was found dead inside a burned-out car northwest of Sherrills Ford on Thursday morning, deputies said. Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid confirmed with the Times-News on Friday that Jermaine Wilkes, 32, of 2282 Edna Street,…
