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SALISBURY — Last year, Chris Ostle felt like he was on top of the world. The Fish Bowl, the downtown bar he co-owns with Branson Hurst, was in the midst of a successful year and was, as he describes it, “the biggest, baddest thing in town.” When Gov. Roy Cooper announced in March that bars …

About 20 million Americans are currently enrolled in Obamacare. An estimated 80 million Americans have pre-existing conditions, and that number will grow as more Americans become infected with the coronavirus. President Donald Trump and a vast majority of Republican senators (including Mr. Thom Tillis) have joined him in his quest to terminate Obamacare. The Supreme …

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Health officials on Friday eased a shutdown of a North Carolina church where a COVID-19 outbreak stemming from a week-long event led to 181 cases and six deaths. Mecklenburg County health officials announced the decision on the same day 35 new COVID-19 cases and one additional fatality were reported from the outbreak …

CLOSE Incoming Salisbury University chief diversity officer Joan Williams explains her plans for the upcoming academic year. Salisbury Daily Times Salisbury University has finalized its spring semester schedule, most notably shrinking the spring break period. Rather than the traditional week-long span, spring break will run just two days, March 15 and 16 due to the ongoing …

By Shavonne Potts [email protected] SALISBURY — A Woodleaf man was charged Friday with breaking into a Cleveland home and pawning tools that were taken from a storage building. Trent Douglas Schriefer, 27, of the 100 block of Cone Drive, Woodleaf, was charged with felony breaking and entering, larceny after breaking an entering, felony larceny of …

By Carl [email protected] SALISBURY – David Blattner used to repair devices in an English classroom. The Rowan-Salisbury Schools chief technology officer moved to North Carolina from California on with his wife on a whim in the ’90s. Blattner had graduated from San Diego State University with an education degree, and the couple had been married …

By Natalie [email protected] SALISBURY — A Salisbury woman was arrested Friday for felony possession of heroin, felony breaking and entering a vehicle and misdemeanor shoplifting at Walmart. Haley Nicole Dial, 28, was charged with breaking into a 1999 Lincoln passenger car in July with the intent to steal the items in the vehicle, according to …

By Carl [email protected] SALISBURY – Maria Freeman has been teaching for 26 years, and her sixth-grade language arts classroom at Erwin Middle School blends traditional material with contemporary technology amid COVID-19. Students in Freeman’s class, like every other student in the district, have iPads they use for most of their work. Freeman said it was …

By Shavonne Potts [email protected] SALISBURY — Rowan investigators say a vehicle containing stolen items tied a Salisbury man and woman to a mobile home break-in. The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office charged Cody Ryan Bell, 26, and Betty Michelle Taylor, 27, both of U.S. 601, with one count of felony breaking and entering and one count …

By Shavonne Potts [email protected] SALISBURY — A local man faces drug-related and breaking and entering charges after a police officer stopped him for a dirty license plate appeared to be covered on purpose. The man was also tied to a home break-in earlier this month, and his wife was also issued a citation for misdemeanor …