County Republican Party Names New Party Chairman: Stephen Kidd. Nominating...
RFP Staff ♦ In a convention room packed to overflow with people standing in the aisles and the rear of the J. Newton Cohen Room by 8:30 a.m., the Rowan County Republican Party chose their leadership...
View ArticleUPDATED: Miquel Angel Urrutia, Salisbury, N.C. Criminal, Rubbed Out on Old...
RFP Staff ♦ This morning the RFP received a number of calls and emails concerning a homicide investigation taking place in the vicinity of the intersection of Hawkinstown Road and Old Mocksville Road...
View ArticleSalisbury, N.C.’s Meth “Ice” Queen Melanie Ann Pruitt Arrested Saturday and...
RFP Staff ♦ Salisbury, N.C.’s Meth “Ice Queen” Melanie Ann Pruitt, 39, who sold meth “Ice” from the Catawba College Campus while working in the college’s linen room and was indicted for methamphetamine...
View ArticleThis Week in the House with Rep. Carl Ford
Representative Carl Ford ♦ Sixth Week of the 2015 Long Session This week, the sky finally held back and the General Assembly was able to hold its first full work week in some time. And it was quite a...
View ArticleLetter-to-the Editor: A Comment on Those Who Appear Fixated on Jim Sides
Chuck Hughes, Salisbury, N.C. ♦ Following a local news media’s report regarding yesterday’s GOP vote on a new leadership slate, some “amazing” comments were made at the end of the article. It seems...
View ArticleLetter-to-the-Editor: Salisbury, N.C.’s Gangs on “Ice”. Meth Ain’t Just a...
Jonathon Morris, U.S. Army Ranger, Ret. & Rowan County Sheep Baron ♦ Hate to break to all those people hunkering down in Salisbury waiting for the next big wave of break-ins and shootings. You...
View ArticleCharles Keith Freeman Died Sunday Afternoon in Motorcycle Tragedy on Majolica...
RFP Staff ♦ Charles Keith Freeman, 62, of 835 Majolica Road in Salisbury, died Sunday afternoon in a motorcycle accident when a Nissan Pathfinder SUV attempted to turn left into a driveway at 1085...
View ArticleAmy Teresa Locklear, of Salisbury, N.C., Charged with Child Abuse After a...
RFP Staff ♦ Last Thursday after a Sheriff’s Deputy and a Rowan County DSS Case Worker inspected the home of Amy Teresa Locklear, 28, of 145 Pickler Road in Salisbury the previous day, Locklear was...
View ArticleRest Assured, Everyone Living in Time Warner Cable’s Rowan Service Area will...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Rest assured, everyone living in a current Time Warner Cable service area in Rowan and Cabarrus counties including the all of their cities, hamlets, and unincorporated areas...
View ArticleCord Cutters: Apple TV Price Dropping from $99 to $69 to Stay Competitive...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Cord Cutters: Apple TV Price Dropping from $99 to $69 to Stay Competitive with ROKU 3 Now $79. HBO Go will be available “individually” only on Apple TV for the time being...
View ArticleA Program will be Presented on the “Battle of Plymouth” (N.C.) on Wednesday,...
Public Announcement ♦ A program will be presented on the Battle of Plymouth (N.C.) during the “War Between the States” on Wednesday, March 11th at 6:30 p.m. in the Stanback Room of the Rowan Public...
View ArticleIn the Last Days of Downtown Salisbury the People Beheld a Vision: THE KING...
Ramat Septhorus IV ♦ In the last days of Downtown Salisbury the “people” beheld a vision on North Lee Street and called it the King Tut Café and Hookah Lounge . An indescribable bliss from the exotic...
View ArticleCrisis in N.C.
N.C. Senator Andy Wells (42nd District) ♦ Crisis in North Carolina: http://andywells.org/crisis-in-nc/
View ArticleWill Fibrant Expand Into Spencer, N.C.? Perhaps, Yet at What Cost to...
Steve Mensing, Editor/RFP Staff ♦ Yesterday at Spencer’s Board of Aldermen meeting, the Aldermen passed a motion to permit Spencer’s Town Manager Larry Smith to start discussions about the possibility...
View ArticleChasity Rae Morgan, 32 and Christopher Allen Morgan, 36, Nabbed in Salisbury,...
RFP Staff ♦ On Monday, Christopher Allen Morgan,36, of Salisbury and Chasity Rae Morgan, 32, of Spencer sailed through a stop sign on South Main street and Peach Orchard Road when they caught the...
View ArticleJayquan Kyon Hamilton, 19, Arrested Today for the Salisbury, N.C. Murder of...
RFP Staff ♦ Jayquan Kyon Hamilton, 19, of 115 E. Henderlite Street in Salisbury, was arrested at 1:45 p.m. today and charged for the shooting death of D.J.’s worker Oscar Miquel Aguilera, 24....
View ArticleReginald “The Weasel” Oglesby, a Salisbury Sex Offender Who Skipped Out of...
RFP Staff ♦ Reginald Dean “The Weasel” Oglesby, 39, a Salisbury Sex Offender who became a fugitive after walking out of the Rowan County Court House March 5th before a verdict was reached in his trial...
View ArticleLetter-to-the-Editor: Great News for Veterans
Rodney Cress, Veterans Advocate ♦ Received great news today that the HUD/VASH program for homeless veterans offered Rowan another 15 vouchers. When I started the program in 2008 under Rowan Housing...
View ArticleHookah Lips: How Publically Shared Hookahs Transmit Genital Herpes, Oral...
RFP Staff/Public Health Warning ♦ Hookah Lips: An expose on how publically shared hookahs are a public health menace and transmit genital herpes, Oral herpes (HSV-1), hepatitis, and tuberculosis:...
View ArticleWitt Darnell Alexander, Jr. of Salisbury, N.C. ID’d as Alleged East Rowan...
RFP Staff ♦ Witt Darnell Alexander, Jr., 22, of Mahaley Ave. in Salisbury has been ID’d as the alleged East Rowan YMCA Wallet thief by tipsters in contact with the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office....
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