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Updated: Oct. 16, 2021 at 8:44 AM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Officers say the fight broke out around 8:34 p.m. Oct. 15 on Hickory Boulevard before culminating in the parking lot of the Hudson Dollar General.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2021 at 2:23 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
The crimes took place April 27, 2018, in Catawba and Caldwell counties.
Updated: Oct. 14, 2021 at 5:48 PM EDT
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According to the National Park Service, dispatchers received reports from a park visitor of a body near one of the parkway’s overlooks around 1:14 p.m. Oct. 9.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2021 at 3:53 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
Crews were putting plows and salt spreaders on the trucks and taking them out for dry runs
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Updated: Oct. 12, 2021 at 6:18 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
The colors slowed down somewhat in the past week as warmer weather tapped the brakes on the change
Updated: Oct. 12, 2021 at 3:26 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Burke County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant William “Mac” McMurtray has died after battling COVID-19 in the hospital.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2021 at 8:51 AM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
This boil water advisory has been canceled.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2021 at 6:47 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Considerable flash flooding has been observed in Burke County as two to five inches of rain has already fallen.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2021 at 6:14 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
In Morganton, several inches fell in just a couple of hours
Updated: Oct. 5, 2021 at 5:59 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
Both the Boone and Blowing Rock are under states of emergency declared back in August
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Updated: Sep. 30, 2021 at 6:30 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
Combined with a cold snap last week, the color show accelerated and there’s been a marked change in just the past week.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2021 at 3:15 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Steven Lynn Greer was convicted on charges of a first-degree sexual offense
Updated: Sep. 29, 2021 at 11:25 AM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
The body of 22-year-old Gabby Petito was found on September 19 at a campground in rural Wyoming
Updated: Sep. 28, 2021 at 5:36 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
The wallet that was found in the woods close to the body contained a North Carolina Identification Card
Updated: Sep. 28, 2021 at 11:50 AM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
The sheriff’s office said Administrative/Public Information Assistant Richelle Bailey passed away at Baptist Hospital in Winston Salem following complications from COVID
Updated: Sep. 26, 2021 at 11:51 AM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Officers arrested 18-year-old Iziaha Corpening
Updated: Sep. 17, 2021 at 10:36 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Deputies were dispatched to a home on Duckworth Avenue in Morganton regarding minor children unclothed and without proper parental supervision.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2021 at 9:15 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
A procession of emergency vehicles will go from Hickory to Lenoir for a memorial service Saturday morning.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2021 at 4:30 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Romero was arrested without incident on September 10, 2021.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2021 at 1:01 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
The cause of the collision is still under investigation.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2021 at 10:32 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
The North Carolina Center for Missing Persons says citizens are asked to be on the lookout for Aimee Elizabeth Barnes, who is believed to be suffering from dementia or some other cognitive impairment.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 6:10 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
Officials decided earlier in the summer that all festivals in the county would be back this year.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 4:20 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Tangela Parker has been indicted on a charge of murder. She’s accused of going into furniture plant, TCS Designs, arguing with her co-worker and shooting her.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2021 at 5:51 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
Officials say four students and eight staffers at Dudley Shoals Elementary School have tested positive for the virus.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2021 at 8:44 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Officers responded to a home on 4th Avenue NW in Conover for a family issue to assist an elderly man, police told WBTV.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2021 at 7:41 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
Despite a surge in COVID-19 cases in Catawba County, fair officials decided to go ahead with the six-day event.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2021 at 10:18 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
The incident happened across from a grocery store on Morganton Boulevard in Lenoir around 12:40 p.m.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2021 at 5:53 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
Preparations have been made in case Ida causes flooding like Fred did two weeks ago.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2021 at 11:39 AM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Ratliff purchased his winning $20 ticket from the Top Mart on Camden Road in Wadesboro.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2021 at 5:49 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
This decision comes with recent increases in COVID-19 cases and related quarantines in schools,
Updated: Aug. 26, 2021 at 10:29 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
If successful, It is estimated to take approximately two weeks for water levels to return to normal.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2021 at 10:09 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
This week, with the Delta Variant spreading, 39 patients were in the hospital over the weekend.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2021 at 6:16 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Health officials say Table Rock Middle School and Drexel Elementary School have multiple coronavirus cases.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 at 6:10 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
It could be weeks or longer before Price Lake is a lake again.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2021 at 6:33 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
School officials say county-wide, the school system has 15 faculty and 38 students listed as having positive COVID cases.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2021 at 6:09 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Citizens are asked to be on the lookout for William Tex Burns, who is believed to be suffering from dementia or some other cognitive impairment.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2021 at 3:58 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Johnny Everette Setzer, 49, was identified as the suspect and was taken into custody.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2021 at 8:19 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Police said they received a call from a “purported distraught child/adolescent,” who said they were at the high school and were planning to harm others.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2021 at 5:40 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
Many roads were left covered in mud when the water receded.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2021 at 11:11 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Officials say storm-total rainfall of two to five inches has occurred across Avery County.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2021 at 8:39 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
The waterways have not gone out of their banks yet but came close enough Monday night that flood sirens sounded and a campground was evacuated as a precaution.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2021 at 9:41 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
Parents of kindergarten kids and first graders could not walk their children in on Monday unless they had an appointment. Few did.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2021 at 3:43 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
WBTV’s Steve Ohnesorge took these photos of the Perseids meteor shower from Brown Mountain overlook along Highway 181
Updated: Aug. 13, 2021 at 8:38 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Officials say the incident happened on MacRae Peak at Grandfather Mountain around 12:05 p.m. Friday.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2021 at 7:13 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
The 2017 incident happened in the parking lot of McCroskey’s Irish Pub and Grill in Hickory.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2021 at 4:28 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Elizabeth Katherine Carserino, also known as Elizabeth Freeman, was taken into custody by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office Saturday.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2021 at 12:52 PM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
The inmate was scheduled to be released Jan. 16, 2022.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2021 at 11:02 AM EDT
|By WBTV Web Staff
Storms filled with lightning, hail and heavy rain came through the Charlotte area,
Family of Marine who committed suicide organizes 5K/10K to bring awareness of veterans mental health
Updated: Aug. 11, 2021 at 8:24 PM EDT
|By David Whisenant
The family of a Marine who committed suicide in 2014 has organized a 5K/10K run to bring awareness to the mental health of veterans.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2021 at 5:42 PM EDT
|By Steve Ohnesorge
The Avery County Board of Education Tuesday night unanimously voted to leave the question of children wearing masks to school up to their parents