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Feb112022 by Scott PelkeyNo Comments

Weather Whiplash | NWS Calls for 60s Saturday, Snow Sunday

Weather

[RNN] - The old joke about "If you don't like the weather in North Carolina just wait a little bit" is an old one, but it's stayed around because it's true and this weekend is going to be the perfect example of that. (via https://www.memesmonkey.com) During the day Saturday the weather is going to be perfect for going out with partly cloudy skies and highs in the mid-to-upper 60s. That will last all day until a cold front begins to cross the Piedmont Saturday night dropping temperatures to around 37°F and bringing with it some lite sprinkles, changing to rain after 1 am. Sunday is going to be the opposite of Saturday with temperatures not moving from their overnight low of 37°F and rain is the morning turning to a mix of rain and snow continuing all day and through the night as...

Feb102022 by Sky EmersonNo Comments

[UPDATED] Asheboro Police Investigating Fight At Lucky’s

News

[UPDATED - SCROLL TO BOTTOM OF STORY FOR UPDATE] ASHEBORO N.C. - The Asheboro Police Department announced today in a press release that they are investigating a fight that broke out at Lucky's Burger N Tap last weekend. The fight took place Sunday night/Monday morning sometime after 1am at the Asheboro bar and restaurant. The ordeal was captured on video and later posted on Facebook. Broken up into stories with some posted out of order, the video shows how the fight starts as well as the fight itself and the aftermath of broken glass and knocked over tables and chairs. Since being posted on Jan 24th 2022 the video has been share almost 20,000 times with over 1,400 comments and reactions. Screent shots from video posted to Facebook by Jackie Muñoz Officers with the Asheboro Pol...

Feb102022 by Randolph News NowNo Comments

Man Arrested For Shooting In To House

Crime

ASHEBORO N.C. - A man who shot into a house from a stolen vehicle last month was recently arrested and charged with a felony. On January 20, 2022, the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office responded to Bingham Loflin Rd. in Asheboro for a shooting into a residence. Deputies say they located a bullet hole on the west side of the home which faced Bingham Loflin Rd and that bullet had made it through the wall and into the home. Crime Scene Investigations collected evidence from the scene. Investigators with the Sheriff’s Office received a description of the vehicle and after learning that vehicle was taken without permission they say they were able to identify Dustin Wayne Bailey as a suspect. Police located that stolen vehicle at a residence on Lassiter Mill Rd. in Asheboro, but the susp...

Feb72022 by Randolph News NowNo Comments

Search Warrant on Asheboro Home Finds Drugs & Gun, 4 People Charged

Crime

ASHEBORO N.C. - Four people have been charged after the Asheboro Police Departments Vice Narcotics unit conducted a search warrant on a home on N Elm St last month. Sometime in early January, Detectives with the Asheboro Vice/Narcotics unit say there were able to make a controlled purchase of crack cocaine using a confidential informant at a home on N. Elm St. Using evidence from that purchase police were able to obtain a search warrant for the home on Jan 13th 2022. On January 14th 2022, Detectives with the Asheboro Vice/Narcotics and Special Enforcement Team, executed that search warrant. Police say they located and seized marijuana, suspected crack cocaine, a handgun, as well as various drug paraphernalia including digital scales, plastic baggies, and smoking devices. Lisa Dian...

Jan312022 by Randolph News NowNo Comments

VICE Search Warrant Locates Drugs, Guns, Stolen Vehicle, 2 Arrested

Crime

ASHEBORO N.C. - Asheboro Police Departments VICE/Narcotics unit conducted a search warrant on a home last Wednesday that landed 2 people in jail and located drugs as well as several stolen guns and a stolen vehicle. According to a police report from the Asheboro Police Department on Wednesday Jan 26th 2022 the VICE/Narcotics team along with the Special Enforcement Team (SET) and the Department’s SWAT team conducted a search warrant on a home at 640 Tucker St in Asheboro. Police say they seized suspected cocaine, crack, and marijuana along with two stolen firearms. Police also say they located a stolen vehicle at the home. Daren E Shamburger and Reginald C Dunn were both arrested on multiple charges. Reginald C Dunn Possession of a stolen firearm Possession of firearm by felon ...

Jan312022 by Scott PelkeyNo Comments

Resident Dies At Asheboro Nursing Home, Found Outside Collapsed In Snow

News

Snow (Vladimir Sazonov/Adobe Stock) ASHEBORO N.C. - Family members are mourning the loss of a loved one after she was found deceased in the snow Saturday morning outside of Northpointe Assisted Living Facility in Asheboro. On the morning of Saturday January 29th 2022, a winter storm dropped 1-2” of snow across Randolph County and plunged temperatures into the teens. At around 07:00 am, a worker at Northpointe Assisted Living Facility on Pineview Rd in Randleman called 911 after finding 89-year-old Thelma Lorraine Armstrong Wray collapsed on the ground outside. She had no pulse and was not breathing. Randolph County EMS would pronounce her deceased at the scene. “This isn't the 1st time a resident has been found outside….but the first that's ended up in death” said Uve Robbinson, a...

Jan252022 by Randolph News NowNo Comments

Drug Activity Call Finds Suspect Who Had Just Ran From Police

Crime

ASHEBORO N.C. - A call about possible drug activity led police to locating a suspect who had fled on foot and escaped earlier in the day. According to a press release from the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office on January 21st, 2022, a deputy in the area of Hwy 64 E near Asheboro observed a vehicle that matched the description of a vehicle stolen from Old Cox Rd reported stolen on December 29th, 2021. The Sheriff’s Office says the deputy followed the vehicle to the Dollar General on US Hwy 64 E, where police say the suspect fled on foot.Additional deputies and a K-9 were dispatched to help locate the suspect but the K9 lost the scent on Loflin Pond Road. The Sheriff’s Office says they received information from a witness in the area who observed the suspect get into a white Nissan. Crimes ...

Jan222022 by Randolph News NowNo Comments

NCDOT: Avoid Travel as Roads Impacted By Snow and Ice

Traffic & Roads

N.C. Department of Transportation crews across eastern and central North Carolina have been working hard to treat and plow roads impacted by the third storm of 2022. The photo shows NCDOT crews plowing U.S. 17 in Bertie County on Jan. 22. RALEIGH N.C. (NCDOT)– Please stay off the roads and be patient as it will take time for state transportation forces and Mother Nature to clear roads of the snow and ice dumped on much of North Carolina Friday evening. “People should not attempt to drive in these conditions,” said State Transportation Secretary J. Eric Boyette. “Our crews are working around the clock to treat and clear roads as quickly as possible and we need everyone else to do their part and stay off the roads.” Some interstates, primary roads, and many secondary roads are cover...

Jan222022 by Sky EmersonNo Comments

Overnight Winter Weather Drops Snow Across Randolph

Weather

ASHEBORO N.C. - Overnight a winter weather system dropped 1-2.5 inches of snow across Randolph County and wreaked havoc on roadways. The snow combined with already wet roads and overnight lows that dipped down below 10 degrees created treacherous driving conditions. In Moore county the Sandhills Sentinel reported several vehicles overturned including a NCDOT snow plow and a FEDEX delivery van. Here in Randolph County impacts have been minimal. Percriptitation was almost all snow with very little in the way of sleet or freezing rain. Unlike the last snow storm this one left several inches of alight powdery snow perfect for building a snowman . Crews were clearing roads as soon as snowfall stopped at 4am. Interstates and highways have been cleared of snow and ice, main roads...

Jan192022 by Acme News WireNo Comments

Two People Airlifted Overnight After Asheboro Shooting

News

ASHEBORO N.C. (ACME NEWS) - Two people had to be airlifted from Randolph Hospital overnight following a Shooting on Cedar Falls Rd in Asheboro. According to a press release from the Asheboro Police Department, last night at around 11:40pm officers from the Asheboro Police Department were dispatched to 1012 Cedar Falls Road in reference to a shooting. When officers arrived they located a male victim who was suffering from a gunshot wound in a small building behind the residence. The male who police identified as 29-year-old Randy Christopher Brower of Kernersville was taken to Randolph Hospital by Randolph County EMS. A second male who also sustained a gunshot wound, arrived at Randolph Hospital in a private vehicle. Police identified that male as 27-year-old Jordan Lee Blackwell of Ash...