As a furniture company in Caldwell County closes its doors Friday, today’s Lenoir job fair saw hundreds of job seekers looking for work opportunities.

The Heritage Home Group announced during the summer it had filed for bankruptcy, placing more than 7-hundred jobs at risk at two plants in Lenoir.

Friday’s plant closing will affect more than 220 workers.

Reports say though the job losses come during a time when the county’s economy is strong with the unemployment rate below 4-percent.

Some 50 companies with hundreds of job openings were represented at today’s fair.

Two people face charges in connection with break-ins in Marion.

The McDowell County Sheriff's Office charged 19-year-old Donald Walter Holliday III of Arrowood Drive, Marion and 24-year-old Kyle Lee  Riddle of Cedar Pine Avenue, Morganton each with two counts of breaking and entering,  two counts of larceny after breaking and entering and one count of larceny.

On September 5th,  Nikia Meadows of Jacktown Road, reported that someone stole $525 worth of property from an outbuilding, then on September 10th, Jerry Smith of East Payne Road, reported that a small motorcycle and chainsaw had been taken from his property.

An investigation led to Holliday and Riddle and some of the property has been recovered. 

A Cleveland County man is accused of molesting a child and sharing nude images of her.

28-year-old Timothy Robbins of Shelby is reportedly charged with statutory sex offense with a child, statutory rape of a child under the age of 15, and felony disseminating obscenity.

Reports with the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office indicate Robbins began having sex with the girl in August till his arrest.

He reportedly took several photos of the child that he intended to give to other people.

Robbins was just released from jail in July after violating his probation from felony breaking and entering charges and drug charges.

He remains in the Cleveland County jail under a 100-thousand dollar bond.