Wright Tilley News Today

/PRNewswire/ -- The well-known western North Carolina town of Boone, in Watauga County, is launching a new tourism development initiative named "Imagine...

/PRNewswire/ -- The well-known western North Carolina town of Boone, in Watauga County, is launching a new tourism development initiative named "Imagine...

A new initiative is underway in Watauga County to boost economic development and create more tourism opportunities. The tourism industry is booming in the High Country. Boone and Watauga County’s Development Authorities are looking at new strategies to continue building off of that growth.

A gunman who killed himself, two deputies and his mother and stepfather in a 13-hour home standoff in North Carolina had a large cache of weapons and may have been contemplating an attack in public, a sheriff said Thursday.

Sheriff: 2 deputies were ambused

/ A gunman who killed himself, two deputies and his mother and stepfather in a 13-hour home standoff in North Carolina had a large cache of weapons and may have been contemplating an attack in public, a sheriff said Thursday. Watauga County Sheriff Len Hagaman said George Wyatt Ligon, 58, and his wife, Michelle, 61, were killed Wednesday, and the shooting suspect, Isaac Alton Barnes, 32, died at the scene. Barnes was Michelle Ligons son and the mans stepson. Hagaman told reporters that family m...