Police said the woman was unable to light the clothing on fire before being taken into custody.
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Several students and a bus driver were taken to the hospital when two charter buses headed to Carowinds for a class trip collided Friday morning.
A mom took matters into her own hands when someone stole her children’s dirt bikes from their Catawba County home.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation said a contractor will begin a rehabilitation project on the bridge on Malcolm Boulevard at exit 113.
A man convicted of cyberstalking is now accused of sex crimes against a local teenager.
Deputies say a man fired dozens of rounds at them over more than five hours over the weekend before he was found dead inside a home.
Prosecutors have dismissed all of the charges against the Catawba County Register of Deeds after she was accused of embezzlement.
Hickory Police Department officers arrested more than half a dozen people, including a teenager, while enforcing North Carolina’s new street takeover law. The crackdown was caught on camera.
A Newton dentist has been suspended by the state board after allegations he was impaired on the job.
An Appalachian State University student was arrested and charged after allegedly stabbing another student at around noon Thursday outside Peacock Hall, university officials said.