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If you walk into Sanctified Baptist Church on Monticello Road, west of Weaverville, at 11 Sunday morning for the service, you might think you'd showed up for choir practice by mistake.

Just in case you thought the members of Congress who voted against the stimulus package were principled patriots oozing sincerity, check out this story from the Think Progress Web site.

The Alexander County Sheriff's Office is looking for help to solve a 20-year-old case.

The back of the hymnal quotes the Quran, Lao-Tse, Buddha and Psalms - "wisdom from world religions," the heading says.

Published: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 7:17 p.m. Bounty of Bethlehem will celebrate its 26th year this year.

As journalists, we all seek to write the big one, that story that sets us apart from all other writers.

With all the attention to swine flu and the controversy over the new guidelines for mammograms, most Americans are oblivious to a far more serious epidemic sweeping the nation - heart insufficiency.

The Christmas season evokes peacefulness and excitement at the same time. Sanctuaries are decorated, choirs rehearse songs and children practice for Christmas plays.

Charles Knight INDIAN TRAIL Charles Ray Knight, 86, died Monday at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte.

Published: Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, December 18, 2009 at 4:32 p.m. Christmas is a time when our thoughts and actions should turn to helping those less fortunate.

Re-enactors portray the Holy Family during the 2008 Night in Bethlehem at Rock Springs Campground in Denver.

Lisa Marie Johnston and Andrew Bradley Mitchell, both of Matthews, North Carolina, were married September 19, 2009 at Unity of Tallahassee Church in Tallahassee, Florida.

Sen. Richard Burr cannot have it both ways. Burr cannot satisfy his base in the Republican Party by voting against the $787 billion federal stimulus bill early in 2009, and then in October play Santa Claus in a North Carolina community that received almost $2.1 million from it.

DELAYED FANS OF THE STIMULUS.... It seems to be a nearly daily occurrence. Republican officials -- some in Congress, some governors -- who blasted the stimulus package in February suddenly love the public investment in their state and/or district now.

Earlier this year, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - commonly referred to as the stimulus - with the votes of only three Republicans in the Senate.

The Bethlehem community's population has been growing for years, but its volunteer fire department is still working out of the 1962 fire station, built when the Bethlehem Community Volunteer Fire Department was founded.

The school, which is located on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, has grown steadily in the past seven years.

At least two people broke out a window, threw a strap around an ATM and dragged the machine through a window and down the street behind an SUV early Saturday morning.

Newton Grove, NC 28366 C.J. Williams Convention Center at 9766 US 701 Highway in Newton Grove, NC.