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An inmate who scaled the fence at a North Carolina prison and ran away has been captured, officials said.

A prison inmate from Cleveland County had nearly seven hours of freedom after escaping from a minimum-security prison Thursday.

A prisoner escaped from Foothills Correctional Institution in Morganton Thursday (August 13) and was captured a short time later. 42-year-old John Curtis Anders

By Brittany Whitehead     MORGANTON, North Carolina (WLOS) — A Rutherford family has donated the first in a two-part gift of land to the Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina, which the family has lived on and enjoyed since 1978. The donation of 222 acres, made official on June 29, lies in the Thermal City area of Rutherford County. David and Martha Cameron, with their son, Rob Messick, are making this gift to the conservancy, and the Camerons will bequeath the remainder of the land �...

Susie C. Spear Low-head dams, such as the 8-foot-high structure at Duke Energy’s Dan River Steam Station, are a threat to public safety, claiming nearly 50 lives nationwide each year, say civil engineers and dam safety advocates. Their aim: to educate the public about the hazards of low-head dams and convince dam owners to rehabilitate the structures. On June 16, nine members of an Eden family set out on the Dan River in tubes for a two-hour float that turned deadly when the gr...

WOODY MARSHALL photos, NEWS & RECORD  Ruben Villano is embraced at the prayer vigil for victims of the June 16 Dan River tubing accident in Eden. Villano was in the group of nine tubers floating down the river that went over a dam. Four people, including Villano, were rescued from the water the next day. Four bodies were recovered and one person remains missing. WOODY MARSHALL, NEWS & RECORD  Elias Meadows, 4, holds a candle at the prayer vigil Saturday for the victims of the June 16 Dan Rive...

NC Republicans vote to stop mail-in ballots from being counted after Election Day Will Doran, The News & Observer © Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS An election judge process mail-in ballots on Election Day 2020.. RALEIGH, N.C. — In the 2020 elections, North Carolina was one of the last states to finish counting its votes and declare the results in a handful of closely contested races, including president and U.S. Senate. Now Republicans in the N.C. Gene...

North Carolina legislators – offering what amounts to a snappy salute in the direction of Mar-a-Lago – are well on their way toward fixing an election law that’s anything but broken. If they succeed, they will have managed to inject a dose of inconvenience and uncertainty into the state’s system of mail-in absentee voting, which proved so popular last fall as an alternative to in-person voting during the pandemic. Mail-in voting, Tar Heel style, worked just fine despite a record turnout...

Jun. 10—RALEIGH — After stopping several members of the public from speaking about a controversial elections bill up for debate in a legislative committee Wednesday, Republican state lawmakers advanced the bill over Democrats' objections. The bill would change how mail-in voting works in future elections. Right now, any mail-in ballot that is postmarked by Election Day is counted as long as ...

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