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A man accused of robbing the CVS on Highway 127 in Hickory Friday night shot himself Saturday Morning in Cleveland County. The robbery took place just before 9 pm when Bryan Jenson threatened employees demanding drugs. Rebecca

  HICKORY, N.C. – Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Asheville Center will host best-selling authors and sisters, Elizabeth Kostova and Victoria Johnson, for an event entitled “Sisters in Words: Fiction, Nonfiction, and the Creative Process,” Thursday, Jan. 24, from 6:30

HICKORY, N.C. – London based writers Ann-Marie Fyfe and Cahal Dallat are spending the spring semester on Lenoir-Rhyne’s Hickory campus as part of the University’s Visiting Writer in Residence program. While on campus, they will teach creative-writing

      The Board of Education recognized the SCHS agronomy team at its Jan. 14 meeting: Front – From left to right: Lawton Looper, Koby Hilton, Corey Reid, Thomas Joplin, Ben Kohnle Back – L to R:

Students have a choice either to enroll in the school that serves their home district or to apply for an approved transfer at an open school. If they choose to transfer, the Open Enrollment period is Jan.

McDowell County sheriff’s deputies are asking for help locating a Marion woman. Candice Wing is wanted for breaking into a home in Nebo and stealing property the News Herald reports was valued at almost $7,500. Anyone with

A Raleigh man is in critical condition after crashing into a bridge on I-40 Tuesday afternoon. Richard Nelson was headed eastbound near exit 100 when the News Herald reports he ran off the side of the road

HICKORY, N.C. – Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Visiting Writers Series (VWS) will present Armistead Maupin, Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m. in P.E. Monroe Auditorium.   Maupin is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

LENOIR, NC – The Board of Education recognized teachers and administrators for receiving statewide recognition awarded by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to schools that have successfully implemented the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), a

A Hickory Public Schools bus ran a red light and struck a minivan Monday morning sending two people to the hospital. The Daily Record reports the bus was traveling west on 12th Ave NE when it attempted