On Feb. 16, the McDowell County Board of Commissioners recognized the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office Community Impact Team for its role in Operation Winter Freeze, a recent county-wide anti-drug operation that yielded 22 arrests and significant drug and weapon seizures. 

What could have been a tragedy turned into one of those “how in the world” moments when a 12-year-old boy was pulled over in Union County after he tried to drive himself to school yesterday morning.

As police and sheriff’s departments around Rutherford County announce a scam has or is occurring in their county, we make sure we make our citizens aware of the latest scam.

A Charlotte man convicted on federal gun and drug charges was sentenced Wednesday to 13 years in prison following a case that stretched across more than two years of court proceedings, according to court records.

A McDowell County jury convicted a western North Carolina man in connection with a 2024 prison escape and kidnapping, and Superior Court records outline the charges, verdicts, and sentencing imposed in the case.