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Regional Briefs: Two men rob coffee shop in Davidson
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Published: July 8, 2008
Two men robbed a coffee shop in Davidson County yesterday morning, the Davidson County Sheriff's Office said.
The robbery occurred just after 1 a.m. at the Internet Coffee Shop on Old U.S. Highway 52 just south of the Winston-Salem city limits.
Witnesses told deputies that a man walked to the counter and asked for a pack of cigarettes. A second man wearing a black ski mask and armed with a handgun entered the shop and ordered everyone in the shop to get on the ground. He demanded that employees give him the money from the safe. There was no money in the safe, but the robber took the money in the cash register.
The first man left and backed a black Ford Fusion to the door, and the armed robber got in the car. They were last seen driving northbound on Old U.S. Highway 52.
Man flees checkpoint, leads police on a 10-mile chase
EAST BEND -- A 20-year-old man who fled from a Booze It and Lose It checkpoint led police on a chase early Sunday, Yadkinville police said yesterday.
Alex Samuel Jennings of 4220 Century Oak Lane in East Bend drove away from the checkpoint that was set up at the offramp from U.S. 421 onto U.S. 601. The chase lasted about 10 miles and ended when police used a spike strip to flatten the vehicle's tires on Center Road near Bryant Road.
There were four other teenagers in the car, police said. None of them were charged, and there were no injuries, police said. Jennings was charged with 16 offenses, including speeding, underage possession of liquor, carrying a concealed weapon and careless and reckless driving.
Boone erred in denying permit for medical clinic, judge rules
BOONE -- The town of Boone erred in denying a special-use permit for a proposed medical clinic last year and must issue the permit, a judge ruled last week.
Watauga Superior Court Judge Ronald Payne said that the town's board of adjustment made an arbitrary and capricious decision.
The fight about the proposed clinic pitted one of Boone's largest property owners and developers against the town. Developer Phil Templeton had proposed renovating a church building to provide offices for a medical clinic on State Farm Road. During a board of adjustment hearing in January 2007, Boone Mayor Loretta Clawson, who lives across the street from the proposed clinic, spoke in opposition to the project and argued that the application was incomplete.
Templeton submitted an updated application two months later. While the application was pending, the town changed its regulations to eliminate medical clinics in the zoning district that included Templeton's project. Templeton sued.
Payne ruled that evidence shows that Templeton's proposal was in harmony with the area and met the town's comprehensive plan. He said that the new regulations should not have been applied to it.
Hurricane, tropical storm may be only help, firefighters say
SUFFOLK, VA. -- Firefighters are hoping weather will help put out a nearly month-long fire in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
Fires have charred about 4,300 acres since June 9. The refuge covers 110,000 acres in Virginia and North Carolina.
Firefighters say it may take a hurricane or tropical storm to put out the swamp's largest wildfire in decades.
Smoke has at times enveloped Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth and Suffolk, reaching as far as Richmond and the Eastern Shore.
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