Canton's Assistant Police Chief Unaware of Threat to Use Suspected Explosives

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2.  Two days before the start of a new school year in Cherokee, a 14-year-old boy was charged with possession and manufacture of destructive devices after , said the assistant chief for the  said. But Todd Vande Zande said he was unaware of any threats to use the devices, most of which have been been sent to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives crime lab for analysis. Click on the following links for details.

3. Monday's scheduled open house of the Cherokee County Senior Center has been postponed "a week or so," officials said in an emailed announcement. "Evidently the only thing we're waiting for is final reconnection of a needed utility."

4.  investigators need your help in identifying a man suspected of exposing himself to a woman in the Hickory Flat Kroger parking lot July 26, according to a report on Holly Springs-Hickory Flat Patch.

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