SALISBURY — West Rowan boys basketball coach Mike Gurley was never a major American Legion baseball fan, but there were summer nights when he turned on the radio just to hear Howard Alan Platt’s voice ...

SALISBURY — Howard Platt, whose rich, resonant radio voice was a familiar — and beloved one — to Rowan County sports fans from the late 1970s until his retirement in 2017, has died. A native of ...