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Regional Briefs: UNCSA tells its students to monitor credit
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Published: December 20, 2008
Officials at the UNC School of the Arts say they are notifying current and former students that their names and Social Security numbers "may have been accidentally exposed" in a security breach involving a university computer server.
The server in question went online in July 2003. The security breach occurred in May of 2006 and affected about 2,700 students who were enrolled between 2003 and 2006.
Each of these students is being notified. The group includes summer-session students and 256 of the 1,162 students currently enrolled at the school.
"We have no reason to believe that the personal information was stolen, used inappropriately or even accessed," Lisa Smith, the chief information officer at UNCSA, said in a statement. "However, we are notifying the affected parties so that they might take steps to monitor their credit to ensure their identities have not been stolen."
School officials say they became aware of the breach last week. They say they are still trying to determine its cause.
The N.C. Attorney General's Office has been notified.
School officials say they are conducting tests to ensure the future safety of personal data.
Davidson community college named a fast-growing school
THOMASVILLE -- Davidson County Community College was ranked the seventh fastest-growing two-year college of schools its size.
The magazine Community College Week compiled the rankings.
The magazine said that the college experienced an 18 percent growth in student head count between fall 2006 and fall 2007 for those pursuing associate degrees, diplomas and certificates.
In 2007-08 school year, the school had a total enrollment of 16,902, school officials said.
Police charge Pfafftown man, 22, in rash of vehicle break-ins
MOCKSVILLE -- A 22-year-old man has been charged in connection with a series of vehicle break-ins in eastern Davie County, Capt. J.D. Hartman of the Davie County Sheriff's Office said Thursday.
John Watkins Elliott of Pfafftown was charged Monday with three counts of breaking and entering of motor vehicles and larceny.
On Wednesday, the sheriff's office charged him with 18 additional counts of breaking and entering and larceny, Hartman said.
About 3:30 a.m. Monday, a woman on Renee Drive saw a man breaking into her car and called the sheriff's office, Hartman said.
Extra deputies were in the area because of recent vehicle break-ins and searched the area. About 5 a.m., deputies saw Elliott walking along the road in the neighborhood and ordered him to stop. He refused and kept sticking his hands in his pocket, Hartman said.
Officers shocked Elliott with a Taser stun gun twice before he was arrested.
Deputies found a loaded gun in his pocket, and he also had items that he had stolen from the car, and more items were found in his car, Hartman said.
Elliot was also charged with larceny of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a felon, carrying a concealed weapon and resist, obstruct and delay, Hartman said.
Elliot is in the Davie County Jail, with bond set at $70,000.
WE WERE WRONG
A graphic yesterday said incorrectly that Mayors Wayne Corpening and Marshal Kurfees were the only two Winston-Salem mayors to have served three consecutive terms. They served three consecutive four-year terms. George Coan served three two-year terms as mayor, from 1929 to 1935.
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