WADESBORO — Holding a special town council meeting Monday inside a packed courtroom, the Wadesboro town council heard and addressed citizen concerns regarding its new town manager Wiley Ross Jr.’s ...

WADESBORO — Regarding the identification of the body located in the Wadesboro woods behind the North Carolina National Guard Armory, Anson County Sheriff Scott Howell has released the following ...

Scotland Correctional Institution, one of the largest prisons in North Carolina. Photo courtesy of NC Newsline/Google Earth A prison so packed that people on suicide watch are sleeping in 5-by-5-foot ...

WADESBORO — Working together, the Wadesboro Police Department, in coordination with the Anson County Sheriff’s Office, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, and the Chesterfield County ...

ANSON COUNTY — Following a discussion held by the Anson County Board of Commissioners last month regarding the ongoing issue of animal control enforcement, it was decided to leave managing the stray ...

The contentious Dec. 6 meeting of the Anson County Board of Commissioner’s meeting was standing room only to parse out who exactly would be the Anson sheriff. Scott Howell would be appointed by the ...

During the 1970s a haunting painting featuring three white children was donated to the New Orleans Museum of Art. The donor of the painting knew a mystery hid just over the shoulders of the three ...

CHARLOTTE – “A convicted sex offender was sentenced today to 37 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM),” announced Lawrence J. Cameron, ...

“We do not need any more landfills in Anson County. I do not see any reason why there even needs to be a designation of greater than ten acres landfills or less than ten acres landfills in any area ...

Correction: This article incorrectly refers to Anson County’s Planning Director as “Zack Almond” when speaker is Nick Addison who is the planning director for Anson County. The Anson Record regrets ...

It’s been 30 years since director Steven Spielberg and a cast of stars descended upon Anson and Union counties to film the acclaimed movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Color ...

Burnsville R & L Center Director and volunteers recently were awarded words of congratulation. The plaque expresses the outstanding works of accomplishments made by the Anson Men in Action group to ...