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Nonprofit envisions increasing needs
21 Aug 2008 at 3:08am
CONCORD - Despite the area's overall economic prosperity, leaders of Cooperative Christian Ministry envision increasing need for the nonprofit crisis assistance agency's services in coming years. Under a new strategic plan nine months in the making, the 27-year-old organization intends to reach further and more efficiently into the neighborhoods of its clients and work harder at empowering them ...
Cannon alum returns to teach
21 Aug 2008 at 3:08am
Parents charged with child abuse
21 Aug 2008 at 3:08am
Two Kannapolis parents are charged with child abuse after their 2-month-old suffered severe head trauma. Kannapolis police arrested and charged David Burns Coley, 28, and April Michelle King, 24, both of 1110 Klondale Ave., with felony child abuse inflicting serious injury after the parents took their baby to CMC-NorthEast June 30. The couple was arrested last week, authorities said. Kannapolis ...
University interested in research campus
21 Aug 2008 at 3:07am
KANNAPOLIS - Elon University is interested in the North Carolina Research Campus. So much so that a group of administrators and faculty took a bus from Elon to Kannapolis on Monday to take a look around. University spokesman Dan Anderson said it was a fact-finding trip. We're trying to explore where there could be a relationship between the research campus and Elon, Anderson said. President Leo ...
Kannapolis man charged with child sex offenses
20 Aug 2008 at 2:37pm
Kannapolis police arrested a 36-year-old man in connection with sexual assaults on two girls. Billy Joe Tysinger, of Easy Street, turned himself into police Tuesday after being investigated in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of a 10 and 11-year-old Kannapolis girl, police said. Police began investigating Tysinger after the mother of one of the children told police on July 31 that she ...
Star's home debut spoiled
20 Aug 2008 at 3:08am
KANNAPOLIS - Gordon Beckham is a pro now, but he says baseball hasn't changed. The game is still the same as college, he said Tuesday night. You just go out there and play and hope for the best. That's all you can do. Last Wednesday, Beckham signed with the Chicago White Sox for a reported $2.6 million. The agreement came only days before the signing deadline. Beckham was a first-round pick, ...
Local roundup: Bulls open year with stampede
20 Aug 2008 at 3:08am
HARRISBURG - In year two, Hickory Ridge still has a young volleyball team, but the Ragin' Bulls also have a year of seasoning. How have the Bulls improved? Just the playing experience, playing together for one year, said Bulls coach Patti Chason. We've still got lots of room to grow. I think the maturity is getting there, the experience is there. On Monday, Hickory Ridge started the 2008 season ...
Catalytic converter thefts remain a problem in Cabarrus County
20 Aug 2008 at 3:08am
Landis aldermen re-examine recreation fees
20 Aug 2008 at 3:08am
LANDIS - Aldermen have re-examined their original plan for an adult softball league fee. In July, aldermen raised the recreation fees after parents and players protested a plan to cut the town's recreation programs. Aldermen agreed Monday to set the adult softball league fee to $1,000 per team but told Recreation Director Julie Noblitt to bring back a budget set with a lower softball fee. Mayor ...
Commissioners OK final jail contract
20 Aug 2008 at 3:07am
CONCORD - Two years after a construction contract for the Cabarrus County jail was first put before the County Commission, the final, $57.9 million component of the agreement has been OK'd by the board. A series of lawsuits, hold-ups and modifications snared the project for the better of those two years - ballooning the price tag for the 480-bed housing unit by about $12 million, officials said. ...
Joys, burdens of being best face Phelps now
19 Aug 2008 at 3:08am
He stood, literally, on top of the world: Everest. The highest mountain on earth. Another few weary steps and there was nothing above us but the sky,'' Sir Edmund Hillary wrote of that moment in 1953 when he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first to the zenith. Harder to put into words was what it meant to be first, foremost - on that day the best among mankind. The New Zealander spoke of ...
Phelps still no household name in China
19 Aug 2008 at 3:08am
BEIJING - Sorry, Michael Phelps, but it may take more than eight Olympic gold medals to make you a household name in China. In a walking survey of a traditional Beijing hutong, a neighborhood made up of narrow streets with carved and painted roof beams, Phelps still lacked some name recognition on Sunday, hours after winning his record eighth Olympic gold medal. As Phelps got closer to No. 8, he ...
Intimidators bash 5 home runs in win
19 Aug 2008 at 3:08am
The Kannapolis Intimidators got five home runs from as many players in a 14-6 rout at the Hickory Crawdads on Sunday. The win is the sixth straight for Kannapolis (29-24), which took the final three games in a previous series against Asheville and the first three of four in Hickory (16-40). Brent Morel hit a one-run homer in the second inning, Matt Inouye hit a two-run homer in the fourth, Mark ...
Concord man, daughter meet for the first time
19 Aug 2008 at 3:08am
The Rev. Frederick Merry didn't win a seat on the school board in 2006, but the publicity from his campaign led him to a long-lost daughter he had searched for since returning home from the Vietnam War. Merry, 59, of Concord, wed in Fayetteville shortly before leaving for Vietnam in 1968. But his marriage didn't endure two tours there, as well as deployments to Fort Benning, Ga. and Germany. ...
Friends bring aid to couple haunted by double tragedy
19 Aug 2008 at 3:08am
KANNAPOLIS - Mary Barnhardt flashes a bright, full-faced smile as she wraps her arms around her husband. They joke with one another while reminiscing about their 40 years together and rest in the deep-back brown couch at a relative's home. Even though the couple recently lost all of their belongings in a house fire, Mary and Billy Joe Barnhardt said they still have a lot to laugh about. Six ...
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