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A car struck the entrance to the CVS pharmacy in Mountain View around 10:30 yesterday morning. The Hickory Daily Record reports the store sustained minor damage and there were no reported injuries.

Western Piedmont Community College will be host to an active shooting drill tomorrow. The training is expected to start at 1:30 p.m.

Some students at Whitnel and Gamewell Elementary schools might no longer receive free lunch and breakfast next school year. The News-Topic reports the change is due to the percentage in low-income students dropping. If the change takes

One person died and another was critically injured in a shooting on Spears Road in Gamewell on Saturday afternoon. A man shot a woman and then shot himself with a long gun, sometime after 2 p.m. The

A Granite Falls business was robbed at gunpoint on Thursday. The clerk at Al’s Gameroom, Dolly Rodriquez, let two men into the business and as she was walking away from the door, they followed her. One of

A Taylorsville man and CommScope employee was arrested after The Hickory Daily Record reports several vehicles were set on fire at CommScope in Claremont Thursday.

Tonight is the Gamewell Ruritan Club’s monthly Bingo Night. Games start at 7 p.m. The first nine games will cost $1 each, and the final jackpot round is $2.

A man may spend more than two years in prison for molesting a 4-year-old girl. Dwight D. Ferguson pleaded guilty Thursday in Caldwell Superior Court to taking indecent liberties with a child. The News-Topic reports Ferguson came

Motorists will need to plan extra time if traveling on U.S. 70 going east toward Hickory today. Law enforcement from several different agencies in Burke County will be carrying the Special Olympic Torch from the Old Burke

A Dudley Shoals man pleaded guilty yesterday to charges in a string of break-ins and thefts throughout Caldwell County. The News-Topic reports Austin Lane Ervin broke or helped break into eight houses, at least one business and