A Catawba County jury needed less than three hours of deliberation over two days to find Rickey Dale Waldrop, Sr. guilty of seven sexual offenses dating all the way back to 1986 during Catawba County Superior Court on Friday, June … Read More
A jury needed less than 45 minutes of deliberation to find Nancy Benge Austin guilty of first-degree murder in the December 2013 shooting death of 20-year-old Dylan Joseph Short on Friday, May 24, 2019, in Caldwell County Superior Court. Austin, … Read More
Jesse Lee Mize, 67, of Conover, was found guilty by a jury of failing to report a new address as a sex offender during Catawba County Superior Court on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The Honorable Nathaniel J. Poovey, Superior Court … Read More
A former assistant softball coach from a Catawba County middle school was found guilty of indecent liberties with a child by a jury during Catawba County Superior Court on Friday, March 22, 2019. Angela Minter Parker, 50, of Hickory, was sentenced to serve … Read More