Wilkes County

So we went from a 10-4 Republican delegation to at least nine Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives with potentially a 10th member, Virginia Foxx, who's an 11-term congresswoman, is currently trailing by 99 votes to a contender that I don't think anyone had on their radar.

Yeah, former newspaper publisher and newspaper editor from Wilkes County.

Chuck Hubbard.

run a fairly, I think, shoestring campaign to say the least and comes potentially if the results hold.

It's incredible to see how very diversified it is now.

I had the honor of teaching JROTC for 10 years up in North Wilkes and everybody goes, where's Trap Hill, North Carolina? You go to nowhere and turn left.

The school up there was fabulous and the program was great.

At the 10-year mark, I had to leave, but That was okay, and so I'm completely retired out and working with Richard's.

after he's accused of causing a fire at his home while making moonshine.

The sheriff and fire marshal of Wilkes County, North Carolina, called in alcohol law enforcement after responding to a fire and explosion at a home this past Monday.

Alcohol law enforcement agents say they found a 200 gallon illegal distillery and seized about 1,800 gallons of mash and 161 gallons of what they called moonshine.

Sixty nine year old Billy Ray Anderson of North Wilkesboro was arrested and charged with manufacturing and possessing for sale a non-tax paid alcoholic beverage and possession of distillery equipment and ingredients.

An apparent moonshine explosion at a North Carolina home leads to criminal charges.

The sheriff and fire marshal of Wilkes County, North Carolina, called in alcohol law enforcement after responding to a fire and explosion at a home this past Monday.

Alcohol law enforcement agents say they found a 200 gallon illegal distillery and seized about 1800 gallons of mash and 161 gallons of what they called moonshine.

Sixty nine year old Billy Ray Anderson of North Wilkesboro was arrested and charged with manufacturing and possessing for sale a non-tax paid alcoholic beverage and possession of distillery equipment and ingredients.

At five o'clock on the morning of July 17th, 1985, a jailer at the Wilkes County Jail in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, counted heads for breakfast and came up one short.

The missing inmate was a young man from Jefferson named Richard Bear, who was waiting to stand trial for a horrific crime.

Nobody had sawed through bars or forced a lock since he'd been inside the jail during visiting hours the night before.

Bear followed her into the woods and tried to make a move on her, and she turned him down.

That refusal, Burgess said, made Bear furious, and when Sherry ran back toward the car, he struck her with a blunt object, leaving her badly injured.

Bear then had Burgess drive them to a spot on Highway 16 in Wilkes County, near a bar called the Moonshine Inn, and roughly a quarter mile from the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Bear got out with Sherry and told Burgess to drive on down the road and come back.

Burgess returned a few minutes later, Bear got in alone, and the two men drove away.