One of three fugitives wanted in a local drug conspiracy was captured Monday night in Maryland. According to the McDowell County Sheriff's Office, 37-year-old "Pepe" Pearson of Morganton was apprehended by Officers in Prince George's County. Pearson has been on the run from the McDowell County Sheriff's Office and the SBI since April 18th when officials conducted a roundup of drug conspiracy suspects in McDowell, Burke and Catawba Counties. As of Tuesday, Pearson was in jail in Maryland under no bond, awaiting extradition to North Carolina. Two other fugitives remain on the run: 35-year-old Dwayne Bullock of Newton and 66-year-old William Jackie Pearson of Morganton. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Bullock or Pearson is asked to contact the McDowell County Sheriff's Office at 828-652-2235 or Crime Stoppers at 652-7463.

Felony charges of 2nd Degree Rape and Incest are filed on a Burke County man. Morganton Department of Public Safety on Sunday arrested 49-year-old David Olmos Martinez of Morganton. He was placed in the Burke-Catawba Detention Confinement Facility under a secured bond of $200,000 with a District Court appearance in Morganton scheduled for today.

Students at Liberty Middle are getting into the latest fad: fidget spinners. Students are actually incorporating hands-on learning to make them. Liberty Project Lead the Way teacher Clay Nelson said he decided to design his own version of the fidget spinner and recruit students to help assemble them. Nelson's students are printing the spinners on a 3D printer, cleaning them, assembling the bearings and performing quality control on each one by testing them to make sure they work. Fidget spinners were initially created for people with attention deficit disorders, autism or anxiety and just this year have gained popularity in schools. Some schools across the country have deemed the spinners a distraction and banned them. Others, like Liberty, are turning them into lessons in physics, inertia and entrepreneurship.