In April 2015, Oakes purchased a home on Farm Springs Drive in Mount Holly, and Higdon began dating someone else. Still, Oakes said, Higdon was possessive of her, and her at one point angrily ...

MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. — UPDATE: A jury found Derrick Higdon not guilty of multiple charges and convicted him of one after an incident involving his ex-wife in 2017. Higdon was found not guilty of ...

Update on Oct. 22, 2024: A jury in Gaston County on May 6, 2024, found Higdon not guilty of all the charges except break and enter, and he has appealed that conviction. A Mount Holly man is ...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said today it will consider throwing out the death sentence for a mentally impaired Alabama man who killed his former lover. Holly Wood was convicted in the ...