Police: man charged after shooting at girlfriend's house while she lay on the...
SALISBURY - A woman told police she crouched in fear as her ex-boyfriend fired a gun at her house Monday night.According to the report, Drew Charleston, 25, had broken up with the woman and she had...
View ArticleEscaped inmate captured after officers notice broken window in Rowan Co.
SALISBURY, NC (WBTV) -The search for an escaped inmate ended Tuesday morning when investigators found Jonathan Dixon hiding in a building near Interstate 85 in Rowan County.Dixon had escaped from...
View ArticleMore "Streamliners" rolling into Spencer for NCTM event
SPENCER - With today’s announcement of two more attending locomotives, the N.C. Transportation Museum’s Streamliners at Spencer event continues to grow. This massive rail fan event, featuring classic...
View ArticleCasey and Sandy Parsons back in court to learn custody decision for children
SALISBURY - The adoptive parents of missing Rowan County teenager Erica Parsons will be back in court on Thursday to learn what a judge has decided when it comes to the custody of the couples youngest...
View ArticleLocal educator, Martha West, donates collection of children’s books to Catawba
SALISBURY - There are Caldecott Award winners, Newbery Award winners and Coretta Scott King Award winners among the 70 autographed children’s books that Martha West recently donated to Catawba College....
View ArticleJudge: Parsons' children stay with grandparents, another hearing set
ROWAN COUNTY, NC (WBTV)- The youngest children of Sandy and Casey Parsons will not yet be returning to the home of their parents. On Thursday, a judge in Rowan County refused to make a final decision...
View ArticleComing through! Police say drunk driver crashes into City of Salisbury building
SALISBURY - Police say a drunk driver crahsed her Ford Explorer into a city owned building on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Avenue early on Friday morning.Anne Star Blomley is the suspect in the case...
View ArticleCome again! Man charged for breaking into same business at least 4 times in...
SALISBURY - Police say there was something about Dan's Trading Company on S. Main Street that undoubtedly appealed to Alvis James Graves, Jr., 55, of Lincolnton Road in Salisbury. Graves is charged...
View ArticleMan with long and violent criminal history faces new charges after...
SALISBURY - His criminal history includes a conviction for manslaughter, rape, threatening to kill a judge, failing to register as a sex offender, and grand theft, but now George John Golliver faces...
View ArticleWake Forest championship football ring from 1970 recovered for local man
SALISBURY - An investigation into a case of a weapon in the hands of a convicted felon case has now resulted in an arrest and the recovery of a 1970 Wake Forest football ACC Championship ring from a...
View ArticlePolice: Unborn baby killed after pregnant woman involved in head-on crash
SALISBURY, NC (WBTV)- Police in Salisbury are investigating after pregnant woman was involved in a head-on crash that killed her unborn child. According to the Salisbury Police Department, officers...
View ArticleWidow of slain newlywed: I know God has a plan for me and our son
ROWAN COUNTY, NC (WBTV)- For the first time since her husband was shot and killed after discovering someone trying to rob his home, the widow of Rowan County volunteer firefighter Marcus Kauffman is...
View ArticleRCCC adds new fire safety program at South Rowan
CHINA GROVE, NC (WBTV)- Even in the 21st century, fire safety and protection is still a critical component of keeping the public safe. A new collegiate program at South Rowan High School prepares...
View ArticleSalisbury Motor Company offering up a rare classic
SALISBURY - With its stainless steel roof, built in mini bar, French perfume, and tons of shiny silver chrome, it's unlike any car you would ever find in a modern showroom, but this car is from the era...
View ArticleCOLD CASE: Newspaper employee found strangled on Christmas Day 1973
SALISBURY, NC (WBTV)- Sheriff Kevin Auten's recent focus of cold cases that go back several years has just been expanded to take on a case from 1973, which involves a missing woman who was found...
View ArticlePolice looking for man wanted in connection to Cook Out robberies
CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)- Police in Charlotte are asking for the public's help in identifying a man thought to be connected to the robbery of several fast food restaurants around the area. On Monday, Jan....
View ArticleTwo men wanted in connection to Kannapolis McDonald's robbery
KANNAPOLIS, NC (WBTV)- Police in Kannapolis are looking for two men who they say robbed a McDonald's Tuesday morning. The incident was reported at 4 a.m. at the McDonald's on the 300 block of S. Cannon...
View ArticlePolice: Briefcase in parking lot prompted evacuation, college lockdown
KANNAPOLIS, NC (WBTV)- A Kannapolis-area shopping center was temporarily evacuated and classes were canceled at a community college after a suspicious package was found in a parking lot Wednesday...
View ArticleMan now charged for robbery and beating of Domino's Pizza delivery man
SALISBURY - Police say it was a senselessly brutal beating that a pizza deliver driver suffered at the hands of a 19 year old Salisbury man.Keshawn Obrian Hargrave of Reeds Lane has been charged with...
View ArticlePolice prescribe criminal charges for man who wanted too many Percocet pills
SALISBURY - 90 pills? Maybe so. 190? No way.Salisbury Police say an alert pharmacist at Innes Street Drug figured out that one man's prescription for the prescription pain reliever Percocet just...
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