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A Salisbury woman who was arrested in November 2009 after she refused a police officer’s order to go into her house while he was making a traffic stop nearby was found guilty Friday of resisting, obstructing or delaying an officer. She had been videotaping the traffic stop. Rowan County District Court Judge Beth Dixon found Felicia Laverne Gibson, 29, guilty and sentenced her to six months of probation and community service work. Gibson, through her attorney Jacob Sussman, of Charlotte, gave notice of appeal. Dixon found Gibson had interfered with the officer’s ability to do his job as he dealt...

District Attorney Mark Hurlbert will not prosecute two rafting guides accused of interfering with the rescue of a 13-year-old girl on Clear Creek last month. Clear Creek County sheriff's deputies arrested guides Ryan Snodgrass, 28, and Justin Lariscy, 30, on charges of interfering with a government operation after the pair initiated a rescue for a Texas girl who fell from their company's raft June 10 on Clear Creek. Snodgrass swam to the girl, who had traveled a half-mile through swollen rapids and pulled herself to shore. Sheriff's officials said the pair ignored orders to stay out of the water and...