Incest

STANFORD — A Lincoln County man who was scheduled for trial Tuesday on multiple charges of incest and other crimes related to sex with a minor instead pleaded guilty in exchange for a recommended prison sentence of 20 years. Timothy Robinson of...

Timeline of events  The trial for Shirley Schwab and Brandon Taliaferro begins Monday, but the story began more than two years ago: • November 2010: Richard Mette arrested and charged with abuse-related counts, including rape and aggravated...

Two Aberdeen residents worked together to make sure a local woman was charged with abuse-related counts, even though no evidence had been collected against the woman, a prosecuting attorney told jurors Monday afternoon.  Michael Moore laid out the...

George Sayers, Jr. of Bethel allegedly fathered a son with his 23-year-old daughter Tiffany Hartford and also created explicit videos and photos meant to jump-start the porn career Hartford apparently wanted. The whole ordeal was uncovered when Sayers,...

Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Tom Smith ... ... said this afternoon that he opposes abortion in all cases -- even for victims of rape and incest. Smith's comments came after he was asked about the political firestorm surrounding the abortion-related......

Like Akin, (presumptive GOP vice-presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Paul) Ryan is a co-sponsor of the “Sanctity of Human Life Act,” a so-called personhood measure that defines life as beginning at “fertilization, cloning or its...

I approve of what Terry Cosgrove says, but I will fight to the death against the way he says it. Pardon my corruption of Voltaire’s famous saying. It’s inspired by a new round of political attacks from Personal PAC, the......

By Dick J. Batchelor As Mitt Romney prepares to accept the Republican Party presidential nomination in Tampa, he faces a number of challenges. First, he needs to introduce or, in some cases, reintroduce himself to the American voter. According to the...

Indiana's Richard Mourdock, Illinois' Joe Walsh and Missouri's Todd Akin aren't doctors. They are Republicans running for the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. But they appear to have special knowledge of how a woman's body works, not to...

The platforms that the two political parties publish every four years are a lot like the warranties that come with washers or refrigerators: Nobody ever reads them, but if you do, you find that nothing in them actually applies. This year, though, the...

STANFORD — A trial date has been set for a Kings Mountain man charged with multiple counts of incest with a minor family member. A three-day jury trial for Timothy Robinson, 34, has been scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Feb. 5. Robinson, of 1120 Ky....

The campaign of Republican congressional candidate John Koster issued a sharp attack against his opponent Wednesday after an audio recording was posted of Koster saying at a fundraiser that he is against abortion in the case of incest and “the...