June 7 Primary Election Results Statewide  Ballets cast  7.68% of eligible voters
11th Congressional District
Democrat
Rick Bryson  9,936  50.75%
Tom Hill       9,351  49.25%

10th Congressional District
Republican
Patrick McHenry  14,770  78.45%
Jeff Gregory           2,268  12.05%
Jeffrey Baker             900    4.78%
Albert Lee Wiley Jr.  889    4.72%

NC Supreme Court Justice
Non Partisan
Bob Edmunds      234,142  48.06%
Mike Morgan       167,221  34.32%
Sabra Jean Faires   58,588  12.03%
Daniel Robertson   27,220   5.59%

Public Safety Officers arrest a High Point man in connection with a breakin at SECU on Enola Road. Officers responded just after 2:30am Tuesday and found the front doors shattered by rocks. 25 year old James Dewey Pennington was found inside the Credit Union. He was charged with Breaking and Entering, Damage to Property, Resisting Officers and Larceny. Pennington was placed in the Burke Catawba Detention Center under a $30,000 bond with a District Court appearance scheduled for today. The Burke County Sheriff's Office, State Highway Patrol and K9 Handler Miller and partner Kimo assisted Morganton Public Safety at the scene.

A Valdese man was handed a 21-year prison sentence by a federal judge for producing child pornography. The announcement was made Tuesday by Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S.Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. B Jesse Brison Ollis, 27, was ordered by U.S.District Judge Martin Reidinger to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender upon completion of his prison term. The investigation was handled by Homeland Security Investigations and SBI, which are members of the North Carolina Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. The U.S.Attorney's Office in Asheville prosecuted the case.

Hickory City Council approved the FY 2016-2017 budget Tuesday night. The new budget of $98 million dollars was 4 million less than the 2015-2016 budget. No tax increase is planned in the new budget. Several friends of the library were on hand at Tuesday's meeting to receive a Proclamation on the 40th anniversary of local people involved in the Hickory Public Library.