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Bridges to remain in jail until sentencing

CHARLOTTE — John Knox Bridges will remain in prison until sentencing, a federal court judge decided at a ...

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Salisbury man found hiding under car charged with burglarizing business

SALISBURY — Authorities found a Mount Hope Church Road man hiding underneath a vehicle at Patriot’s Towing late ...

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Police: Thief targets Grimes Mill ruins

SALISBURY — Authorities are in search of a thief they say targeted the ruins of Grimes Mill, which ...

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FBI picks up Knox Bridges; bond hearing Wednesday

SALISBURY — Federal agents picked up admitted Ponzi scheme operator John Knox Bridges at the Rowan County jail ...

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Landis woman faces drug charges

LANDIS — A Landis woman is charged with selling Oxycodone. Marsha Turner Brown, 57, of Mill Street in Landis, ...

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Kannapolis man faces drug charges

KANNAPOLIS — A Kannapolis man faces three charges related to selling cocaine. Jerry Wayne Moody, 60, of Sycamore ...

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Kannapolis police charge Salisbury man with trafficking

SALISBURY — A Salisbury man faces three counts of drug trafficking. Kannapolis police arrested Bill Lee Shaw Jr., ...

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Rockwell woman charged with using fake prescriptions

ROCKWELL — A Rockwell woman used forged prescriptions in an attempt to obtain drugs, police said. Crystal Jean ...

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Charlotte man in jail on $500,000 bond after East Spencer home invasion

EAST SPENCER — A Charlotte man on parole after serving time for a 2001 bank robbery is in ...

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Man robs South Main Street convenience store at gunpoint

?SALISBURY — Authorities are searching for a man who held a clerk at gunpoint and robbed Pit Stop ...

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Two Gold Hill men charged in vehicle break-ins

GOLD HILL — Authorities have charged two Gold Hill men with taking items from vehicles in eastern Rowan ...

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Man uses wrong receipt in attempt to get beer

SALISBURY — A Salisbury man tried to get six cases of beer from Walmart with the receipt from ...

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Marine recruiter charged in sexual assaults Bond set at $100,000; one young female says he threatened to kill her

SALISBURY — Authorities say a Marine recruiter based in Salisbury sexually assaulted two young female recruits, including one ...

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Bridges surrenders Police bring fugitive out in handcuffs after standoff at church

SALISBURY — Fugitive John Knox Bridges surrendered to Salisbury police Saturday night after an armed standoff at a ...

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Bridges doesn’t show up for sentencing Police put out alert saying he could be ‘armed and dangerous’

CHARLOTTE — John Knox Bridges fooled a lot of people over the years. He fooled even more Friday ...

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Bridges doesn’t show for sentencing Police put out alert saying he could be ‘armed and dangerous’

UPDATE (6:00 p.m.): Salisbury Police said Knox Bridges left his South Ellis Street home about 1 p.m. Officers ...

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Deputies: Inmate ambushed jail officer

SALISBURY — Willie Johnson Jr. and the Rowan County Detention Center don’t seem to get along. Johnson, who ...

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Police identify Thomasville stabbing victim

THOMASVILLE (AP) — Police in Thomasville have released the name of a man who died after a stabbing ...

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Concord police ID stabbing victim

CONCORD — Authorities have identified the victim in a fatal Monday stabbing. Desmond Travon Cox, 23, of Heatherwood ...

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NC’s largest school district considers guards

CARY (AP) — North Carolina’s largest school district is considering putting a security guard in every elementary school. ...

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Police investigating Concord death

CONCORD — Police have started a death investigation after finding someone stabbed this afternoon in Concord. According to ...

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Former NC pastor pleads guilty to sex charges

GASTONIA (AP) — A former Stanley pastor has pleaded guilty to engaging in sex acts with two girls ...

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Monroe officers seize $3 million worth of marijuana

MONROE (AP) — Authorities in Union and Moore counties have seized more than $3 million worth of marijuana ...

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Man held at NC airport after claiming to have bomb

CHARLLOTTE (AP) — Police have arrested a man who claimed to have a bomb in his carry-on luggage ...

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Arson investigation leads to felony charges against two

SALISBURY — An arson investigation led detectives to a credit card theft and later a possible break-in spree. ...

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Police: Man pistol-whipped at stoplight

SALISBURY — A man on a mo-ped told officers he was pistol-whipped by a group of people near ...

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Police accuse man of spray painting owl on Cook-Out

SALISBURY — Police charged a 22-year-old man with spray painting a white owl behind a Cook-Out on East ...

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PTA raising money for security at Lumberton school

LUMBERTON (AP) — The Parent-Teacher Association is raising money to improve security at a Lumberton elementary school. The ...

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