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Monday Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education Meeting. Moving Closer to Videoing...

RFP Staff ♦ In Monday’s Board of Education meeting the star of the show was the much anticipated plan to video and broadcast the board of education proceedings not only for transparency sake, but for...

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“Klansville, U.S.A.”, the Story of Bob Jones N.C.’s Grand Dragon and the Ku...

RFP Staff ♦ “Klansville, U.S.A.”, the Story of Bob Jones N.C.’s Grand Dragon and the Ku Klux Klan in Rowan County, Airs Tonight on the “American Experience” on PBS 9-10 P.M.  Much documentary footage...

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Salisbury, N.C.’s CVS and Walgreens Pharmacies Being Terrorized by Hillbilly...

RFP Staff ♦ Over the last few months Salisbury CVS and Walgreens pharmacies were robbed by gunman stuffing their plastic bags with Oxycodone and any cash they can score.  Rockwell’s CVS and Spencer’s...

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PBS Documentary “Klansville U.S.A.” Can Be Viewed HERE in Its Entirety

PBS/WGBH/American Experience ♦ If you happened to miss the Tuesday evening’s American Experience showing of “Klansville U.S.A.” a documentary focusing on Rowan County’s N.C. Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard...

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Jerry Lynn Beeler, Jr. Allegedly Batters and Strangles Woman in Salisbury,...

RFP Staff ♦ Salisbury Police were called to 417 S. Merritt Ave. on Tuesday evening to a reported disturbance.  On their arrival they found Jerry Lynn Beeler, Jr., 42, his clothes soaked with blood as...

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Berger, Moore to Preview 2015 Legislative Agenda in News Conference on...

Press Release ♦ Raleigh, N.C. – Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) and House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) will host a news conference Wednesday, January 14 at 2:15 p.m. in the legislative...

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Meth Epidemic Ratcheting Up in Rowan County. Joseph Orlando Murdoch Busted...

RFP Staff ♦ With the meth epidemic ratcheting up and threatening to overtake heroin in Salisbury, N.C. and Rowan County, another meth lab was put out of commission by Rowan County Sheriff Office...

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Billy Pless, Jr., Spencer and Salisbury, N.C.’s “One Man Human Crime Wave”,...

RFP Staff ♦ Billy Floyd Pless, Jr, 62, Spencer and Salisbury, N.C.’s “one man human crime wave” was charged with felony habitual assault based on prior assault convictions in 2003 and 2013 due...

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Jim Tomsula, Catawba College Grad, Named San Francisco 49ers Head Coach....

RFP Staff ♦ Jim Tomsula, Catawba College Graduate and NFL Assistant Coach, Named San Francisco Head Coach.  Learn All about Jim Tomsula Here:...

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Attention Veterans: An Important Message on Military Service and Social Security

Rodney Cress, Veteran Advocate ♦ Attention Veterans: An Important Message on Military Service and Social Security:   http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10017.pdf

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Video: N.C. Legislative Leaders Tackle Top Questions For 2015

CarolinaJournal.com ♦ RALEIGH — Taxes, teacher pay, targeted incentives. Medicaid reform and expansion. Reporters peppered the N.C. General Assembly’s top leaders on these and other topics during a...

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Ex-East Spencer Cop Arrested by SBI for Allegedly Breaking into the East...

RFP Staff ♦ Ex-East Spencer Policeman Alan Wayne Bridges, 30, living on the 100 Block of Shadow Creek Road in China Grove, was charged early Thursday by the SBI for felony breaking and entering for a...

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Harry Warren’s Raleigh Report

Rep. Harry Warren ♦ The 2015–2016 session of the North Carolina legislature officially began yesterday, Wednesday, January 14, 2015, as 120 members of the House and 50 members of the Senate took their...

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IPTV’s Growing Open Source Favorite KODI.TV (Formerly XBMC). “Cord Cutters”...

Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ XBMC, a growing open source favorite among cord cutters (people who use digital antennas and IPTV devices like ROKU 3 and Apple TV), has transitioned onto KODI.  Here is an...

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The Myth of Carbon Pollution: Princeton’s Happer Pokes Holes in Conventional...

Carolina Journal ♦ The Myth of Carbon Pollution.  Princeton’s Happer pokes holes in conventional climate wisdom: http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=11704

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Historic Preservation Tax Credit Abuses are Many. Time to Protect the...

Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ At the end of 2014 the North Carolina State Budget pulled the plug on the ugly and abusive history of Historic Preservation Tax Credits in North Carolina.  Former Speaker Tillis...

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Brandon “The Menace” Rumple, 20, Enochville Heroin King, Gets 11 to 15 Years...

RFP Staff ♦ Brandon Lee Rumple, 20, aka “The Menace” plead guilty to a lesser charge of attempted trafficking heroin and was convicted in Cabarrus County Court Thursday.  He will receive 11 to 15 years...

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Rowan County Commission Meets Tuesday, January 20th at 6 P.M. at the County...

RFP Staff ♦ Rowan County Commission meets Tuesday, January 20th at 6 p.m. at the Rowan County Administration Building at 130 West Innes Street in Salisbury, N.C. ROWAN COUNTY COMMISSION AGENDA Call to...

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Corruption in City Hall: You Scratch My Back–I’ll Scratch Yours

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ♦ Corruption in City Hall: You Scratch My Back–I’ll Scratch Yours: http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2007/january/cityhall_010807

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Manhunt Underway in Salisbury, N.C. After Police are Drawn into a West End...

RFP Staff ♦ After being dispatched to the 800 block of W. Bank St. in Salisbury on several complaints of gunfire around 2:30 a.m., police became engaged in a firefight with an unknown shooter.  Sources...

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