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5 days ago | hickoryrecord.com | Virginia Annable

Saturday morning, an earthquake in Tennessee shook homes for miles. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | SoundStack | All Of Our Podcasts Some shakes from the the earthquake reached the Hickory area. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake in Greenback, Tennessee, just south of Knoxville, happened at 9:05 a.m. It was a 4.1-magnitude earthquake. The effects were felt from areas of Kentucky to Atlanta as well as North Carolina.

4 weeks ago | hickoryrecord.com | Virginia Annable

Live music will return to downtown Hickory this summer and fall. The city of Hickory's Sails Original Music Series will bring free concerts under The Sails on Union Square. Performances will begin at 7 p.m. Friday evenings in May, June and September. One concert will be held in a different venue. The concert will be at the Samuel William Davis Sr. Multipurpose Field in Taft Broome Park on Saturday, Sept. 20, at 6 p.m., in conjunction with the city's Festival on the Field event.

1 month ago | globegazette.com | Virginia Annable

North Carolina's liquor sales system, which employs managers for each of the state's 171 governmental alcohol control boards, has been described as unwieldy and redundant by critics and beneficial to taxpayers by supporters. An analysis of the salaries of the general manager running about 140 of the state’s 171 boards shows the average salary is about $70,000, the highest being $217,000 in Mecklenburg County.

1 month ago | morganton.com | Virginia Annable

A new hotel is planned in Morganton off Interstate 40 at exit 105. The hotel is expected to be complete by 2027. MRI Hotels plans to build a Home2 Suites by Hilton behind LongHorn Steakhouse in Morganton, according to Sid Maheshwari with MRI Hotels. Maheshwari said he expects to have the building design complete this year, and hopes to file for construction permits by the end of the year. Once started, construction is expected to take about 15 months, he said.

2 months ago | stltoday.com | Virginia Annable |Hayleigh Colombo

A year ago, Deborah Mais was a passenger in a morning car wreck in College Station, Texas, that left her with a traumatic brain injury and a growing pile of seemingly insurmountable medical bills. The out-of-pocket costs for her care now total well over $500,000. The debt has become so overwhelming, she’s stopped opening the bills when they arrive.