WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines launched a campaign to fight childhood obesity on Tuesday, including partnerships among organizations across the city, workshops, an exercise DVD and an interactive website that includes, among other things, talking vegetables and a video of the mayor doing pushups.
The Educational Childhood Obesity Prevention Program links the Gateway YWCA, […]
Chapel Hill’s cell-phone debate got put on hold Monday night when a proposed ban on calls while driving fell two votes short.
To pass on a first reading, the ban needed six votes. The council deadlocked 4-4, with member Ed Harrison absent because he was representing the town at a regional transit meeting.
The issue will come […]
U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers has introduced legislation that would prevent officials from installing tolls along I-95. Ellmers said the bill “No Tolls in North Carolina Act of 2012” prevents the Federal Highway Administration from approving a pilot program that would add tolls on the interstate highway in order to pay for its expansion.
“While our highways […]
A divided three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals has struck down North Carolina’s ban on video sweepstakes games.
The judges, in a ruling issued today, said the state legislature has the authority to regulate games of chance. But the way the 2010 law was written, they said, only deals with how the results of […]
MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Sixty educators from across the nation roamed the halls and ringed the rooms of East Mooresville Intermediate School, searching for the secret formula. They found it in Erin Holsinger’s fifth-grade math class.
There, a boy peering into his school-issued MacBook blitzed through fractions by himself, determined to reach sixth-grade work by winter. […]
Burlington City Councilman Stephen M. Ross will run as a Republican candidate for the N.C. House of Representatives District 63 seat.The city of Burlington announced Ross’ intentions through a news release Friday.
The seat is currently held by Rep. Alice Bordsen, who announced earlier this month that she wouldn’t seek a sixth term in the house. […]
State Department of Transportation engineers are crafting a plan to toll Interstate 95 that would allow local drivers to take short trips on the road while preventing others from dodging tolls. The department hopes to catch the one in five drivers it estimates pass through North Carolina without ever stopping. They don’t buy gas or […]
The state’s budget troubles haven’t prevented the N.C. State Ports Authority Board of Directors from hosting several lavish dinners in the past year. The board’s latest dinner was held last month at Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar in Charlotte, on the night before the board’s meeting in the Queen City. The Ports Authority spent […]
As the details of a landmark overhaul to North Carolina’s criminal justice system come into focus, prosecutors and defense attorneys have blasted certain elements of the law, contending they sacrifice public safety to save money, among other concerns.
In the past few months, courthouses, probation offices and prisons have been trying to bring their staffs […]
Not one, but two local mayors received one of North Carolina’s highest civilian honors Friday.
Bob Misenheimer, mayor of Kannapolis, and Scott Padgett, mayor of Concord, received Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce during their 2012 annual meeting Friday.
But when the two took the stage at the Embassy Suites Concord Golf Resort […]
