Media General Inc., the parent company of the Winston-Salem Journal, announced Wednesday that it is interested in selling some of its newspapers.

The sister of a disabled man killed in a hit-and-run accident last year said in Forsyth Superior Court Wednesday that she still doesn't understand why the man charged in her brother's death kept driving and didn't stop.

Winston-Salem's own Lawrence Joel, the first black medic in the United States to win the Medal of Honor, would have been 84 years old yesterday. To celebrate the day and Black History Month, his family shared some of their memories and memorabilia with the public, with an exhibit and luncheon at his namesake Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

A sensor placed in the helmet of several young area football players will measure the pounding their heads take during the next season.

A Winston-Salem man was sentenced Wednesday morning to more than 25 years in prison after he was convicted of fatally stabbing another man in the neck.

If Tommy Jarrell were still alive to sit in and fiddle at this week's festival that bears his name, he'd notice that his old friend Earle has been spiffed up.

Gov. Bev Perdue said today that Carolina Precision Plastics LLC will open a new facility in Mocksville.

United Way of Forsyth County said today that the agency exceeded its $17.3 million goal for its 2011 campaign.

Global telecommunications company AT&T is opening a new data center in Kings Mountain, a project that could have an estimated economic impact of $935 million over 10 years, state and company officials said today. The center will create 106 full-time jobs.

LOUISVILLE, KY. (AP) A three-judge federal appeals panel in Kentucky has turned away a challenge from a defunct cigarette maker to a landmark 1998 national settlement between 46 states and 19 tobacco companies. The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals

Motorists using Interstate 85 will have to deal with a detour as work on the corridor improvement project continues.

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A man armed with a handgun robbed a bakery Monday night

 

Kathy Bruce, Lewisville's finance officer and assistant town manager, has been named the interim town manager effective March 1.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Gov. Beverly Perdue said Wednesday she's shifting unused child-care subsidy money to enroll another 2,000 at-risk 4-year-olds in a state program that helps them catch up to their peers before entering kindergarten. Perdue announced her administration has

Woman arrested in stabbing death

Ban on guns in Greensboro parks remains unresolved

Return of spring-like weather brings chance of showers

Faith may be a belief in things unseen, but it doesn't hurt to gain two tangible pieces of evidence that Piedmont Triad Research Park is delivering on its promise of transforming Winston-Salem.

N.C. Rep. Larry Womble's voice was strong Tuesday as he announced he wouldn't be running for office this year, his first public comment since he was seriously injured in a car accident in December.

Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton says he's a leader in education innovation who would work to reverse what he calls lasting damage to North Carolina by Republican political forces if he's elected governor.