AGRICULTURE Steven Anderson SALEM — Grower-owned cooperative Oregon Cherry Growers welcomes Steven Anderson to its executive team as the new senior vice president of operations. His role is to help drive national and international growth in both the foodservice and retail…

Hope to draw attention, tourism to historic road Tammy Ingram talks with John Fowler at the Creative Arts Guild Saturday about the Dixie Highway exhibit. Posted: Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:23 pm Bandy Center, Arts Guild celebrate Dixie Highway By…

WWE (NYSE: WWE) announced that a new, international class of 11 recruits — including former collegiate athletes, bodybuilders and talent from the independent wrestling circuit — from seven countries have started training at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando. The…

Today is Saturday, April 25, the 115th day of 2015. There are 250 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On April 25, 1945, during World War II, U.S. and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe (EL’-beh)…

The USS North Carolina battleship memorial launched a public campaign Thursday to finish raising $17 million to repair the ship’s rotting hull and make visitor improvements. The battleship already has raised $10.7 million of the money it needs for the…

A large Mayberry Days festival in Mount Airy, N.C. is held during the last wekend of September each year. Highlights include a large Saturday morning parade with Barney Fife impersonators and 1960s-era sheriff’s cars from all over the country. (Photos…

Judy Scott, left, looks up as an honor guard folds a U.S. flag that covered the casket of her son, Walter Scott, before it’s presented to her during his burial service in Charleston, S.C. on Saturday, April 11, 2015. Walter…

Gov. Pat McCrory jokes with Sen. Angela Bryant about a magnifying glass that he found on a table where he would sign a bill into law in Wilson, N.C., that legislators say will lower the cost of electric for many…

Faced with a deteriorating ship’s hull which, in places, is paper thin, officials of the USS North Carolina Battleship Commission announced Thursday the public phase of a capital campaign to fund what they term “imperative” repairs to the World War…

In late February, the state of Alabama’s tourism department made a bold declaration: 2015, it said, will be the Year of Alabama Barbecue. The campaign pushing Alabama’s barbecue legacy might have sounded like a bit of a stretch: Even a barbecue neophyte…