James O. Hammons dedicated more than 50 years to guiding students and advancing the field of higher education. He passed away July 4, 2025.

A Rowan County man is facing multiple charges after deputies say he assaulted and kidnapped his girlfriend, then hid with her ...

Corey Waldrop, who is leading a push to develop a portion of the Mary’s Creek floodplain in Benbrook, has a checkered past, according to court filings and lien records.

A conservative Christian legal group asked the United States Supreme Court to review a decade-old case involving a former ...

Flooding has impacted cities and town across the Appalachia region for many years. In Rowan County, Kentucky, leaders in ...

There’s nothing quite like a new pair of shoes to make you comfortable to take a big step.  Students in Communities in Schools of Rowan County were surprised to learn that they would be picking out a ...

A  former Davidson County Sheriff’s deputy with a history of robbing banks was back at it Thursday when he reportedly robbed ...

It isn’t clear whether the Bengals will sign it because the team proposed alternate language that is not part of the county’s ...

A county clerk with religious objections to same-sex marriage viewed the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade as a precursor to Obergefell v. Hodges’ downfall.

The man, later identified as 58-year-old Jeffrey Dean Athey, allegedly passed bank staff a note demanding money.

S ALISBURY, N.C. (WBTV) - A former Davidson County deputy was arrested on Thursday after allegedly robbing a bank in Rowan County for a second time. Records showed 58-year-old Jeffrey Athey was placed ...

Harriet Blair Rowan is a Bay Area News Group data reporter for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Rowan received her master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of ...