February 12, 2012
The sun appears to be setting on the era of high-dollar tobacco manufacturing jobs in Winston-Salem.It shouldn't be shocking news to the community that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s local workforce is shrinking yet again. The company has announced 19 job cu...
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February 10, 2012
Tricia Creasey, a Davidson County teacher whose struggle with cancer was featured on the TV show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," has died.Creasey died about 2:30 p.m. Thursday at home with family and friends by her side, said Randy Holmes, the...
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February 9, 2012
ARCHDALE -- Thomas Built Buses Inc. is stepping up production and adding 50 jobs companywide, the company said Wednesday.Kelley Platt, president and chief executive, said that Thomas Built Buses had exhausted its list of employees who had been recalled to...
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February 7, 2012
WINSTON-SALEM — Winston-Salem State University is mourning the death of another of its students, the third to have died this school year.On Friday, Thea-Simone McDuffie, a sophomore justice studies major from Charlotte, was killed when the car she w...
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WINSTON-SALEM — State Rep. Larry Womble, who was critically injured in a December head-on crash that killed the driver of the other car, has been released from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said Monday.
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February 6, 2012
WINSTON-SALEM — Two men from Forsyth County will have to wait until at least 2014 for their chance to prove that racial bias helped put them on death row.
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February 4, 2012
WINSTON-SALEM — The N.C. Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court's ruling that blocked the public release of statements that Winston-Salem police officers made to a citizens committee looking into a police investigation of a 1995 assault...
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February 3, 2012
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Association men's and women's basketball tournaments are moving from Winston-Salem to Norfolk, Va., ending a four-year run at Joel Coliseum.MEAC Commissioner Dennis Thomas on Wednesday praised the staff at Joel and said the tourna...
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WINSTON-SALEM — The case of an East Forsyth student whose family made public a conversation he recorded that contains cursing and threats from a teacher and the school's police officer has prompted a huge outpouring of comments and a vigorous debate...
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WINSTON-SALEM — When the New England Patriots and the New York Giants go head to head in the Super Bowl on Sunday, many folks will be watching them on new televisions.Local companies that sell TVs have been seeing a stream of shoppers in their store...
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February 2, 2012
The likelihood that 423 former employees of defunct Pace Airlines Inc. will receive back wages grew Wednesday with the filing of a $1 million insurance settlement hammered out by a bankruptcy trustee and the co-owners of the company.
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WINSTON-SALEM — A popular East Forsyth High School coach and a school police officer were recorded confronting a 15-year-old student in a profanity-laden tirade that included threats to financially ruin the boy's family because he questioned how man...
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February 1, 2012
WINSTON-SALEM — Mitt Romney may have won Florida's Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, but he got trounced by tea partyers in North Carolina.
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January 27, 2012
GREENSBORO — NewBridge Bancorp ran its profitable-quarter streak to seven during the fourth quarter, primarily because of continued improvement in its loan portfolio.The bank, based in Greensboro, had an 83 percent increase in net income to $714,000...
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January 26, 2012
WINSTON-SALEM — Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines is open to the possibility of becoming a Democratic candidate for governor of North Carolina, he said this morning after reports surfaced that Gov. Bev Perdue will not seek re-election.
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January 24, 2012
WINSTON-SALEM — A convicted sex offender accused of strangling his landlady five years ago and setting her car on fire in Clemmons with her body inside killed her after she found pornography on his computer, according to a search warrant for his com...
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January 23, 2012
WINSTON-SALEM — Two new residence halls will be built on the north end of Wake Forest University's campus, pending approval from the board of trustees at its February meeting.
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WINSTON-SALEM — Forsyth County commissioners remain sharply divided over whether to allow people with concealed-weapon permits to take their guns into county parks, but they decided last week to postpone action for at least a couple of weeks.
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January 21, 2012
WILKESBORO -- The number of methamphetamine labs being found in Northwest North Carolina is on the rise again.
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January 18, 2012
WINSTON-SALEM — A lawsuit alleging that agents with the State Bureau of Investigation manufactured blood evidence to frame a Clemmons dentist in his wife's death should be dismissed based on governmental immunity, the agents' attorneys said in motio...
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WINSTON-SALEM — A publicly owned parking garage at Liberty and Second streets downtown will be sold to BB&T, and another public parking deck will be listed for sale, the Winston-Salem City Council decided last night.
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January 17, 2012
WINSTON-SALEM — Opinions are sharply divided over the question of allowing people with concealed-carry permits to take their guns into county parks.That's true on the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners and among experts who have combed the data t...
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Three Triad business leaders were among the North Carolina voices heard by Obama administration staffers last week as they discussed the financial and regulatory challenges facing small businesses.
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January 14, 2012
BOONE -- The freezing temperatures came in just in time on Thursday night to help North Carolina's ski industry gear up for what's traditionally one of its busiest weekends -- the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
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January 13, 2012
KERNERSVILLE -- A school resource officer who used his Taser to break up a fight at East Forsyth High School acted appropriately, Kernersville Police Chief Ken Gamble said Thursday.But Officer James Deeney's actions prompted criticism from others and diff...
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