Cities and Towns

The criminal case against a woman who was arrested in 2017 for the fatal neglect of several German shepherds has apparently gotten snarled over a pending request for a...

Following a second and unrelated investigation, the insurance party has filed a fraud case against a Mebane woman. Dominique Lawanum Burnette, 30, of 204 South Eleventh Street, Mebane has been...

UPDATED: One arrested, others still sought Police in Burlington have arrested an out-of-town resident for the theft of at least two catalytic converters that have recently vanished from parked vehicles...

A Burlington woman has been charged by the state insurance department with two counts of insurance fraud and one count of obtaining property by false pretense; all three charges...

During their recent annual retreat, Elon’s aldermen received pitches for three new employees and hundreds of thousands in capital purchases and projects. Department heads proposed purchases for vehicles that had...

She had met him on the internet; her boyfriend and a friend ambushed him when he came to her Mebane trailer; meanwhile, children were asleep with sleep-over guests in...

Burlington’s mayor found himself out on a very deserted limb this week when he tried to persuade the rest of the city council to drop the locally-based auditing firm...

Town grapples with how to pay for services when so much of municipality's land is owned by Elon University and three other non-profit organizations that therefore don't pay any...

Homeowners in Gibsonville’s Sullivan Court neighborhood pleaded with the town’s board of aldermen to reject a developer’s proposed expansion of a townhome development when the board held a public...

A company that transforms recycled materials into luxury furnishings has approached the city of Burlington about a plan to refurbish a vacant textile mill to serve as its corporate...