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A Tobaccoville man was arrested Monday in connection an armed robbery that happened a year ago at a sweepstakes business, court records show.

Wallace Bradsher, 52, of Roxboro, is one of two district attorneys accused of participating in a criminal scheme to hire each other's wives and allow one wife to collect $48,000 in unearned state pay.

Authorities recovered the body of a canoeist Monday after he fell in the Yadkin River on Friday.

Kenan James, a social studies teacher and longtime girls soccer coach at Forbush High School, was suspended with pay in late May while Yadkin County Schools investigate allegations of inappropriate communication.

MOUNT AIRY — An early morning fire engulfed an old rope factory in downtown Mount Airy on Monday, leaving two firefighters injured.

The daughter of an 80-year-old woman who was killed last year in a head-on collision has withdrawn her request for body-camera footage from the Winston-Salem police.

A report of a person being held at gunpoint ended with a charge of misusing 911 and filing a false police report.

A Lexington man is charged with hitting a man in a wheelchair and assaulting a woman.

A motorcyclist was killed in a Thomasville crash Saturday evening.

Northwest Boulevard will be closed between Reynolda and Hawthorne roads for more than three weeks starting on Tuesday so the school system can carry out work toward making improvements to the bus staging and parental drop-off areas near Wiley Middle…