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Regional Briefs: Truck overturns at Linville Road exit
Journal Photo by Lauren Carroll
A wrecker with Fritts Towing prepares to right a B&A Flooring truck after the truck overturned on Business 40.
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Published: September 9, 2008
A truck overturned yesterday afternoon on Business 40 in Winston-Salem after a car cut it off and forced it onto the Linville Road off ramp, then into the median between the access ramps and the highway, authorities said.
There were no injuries and no charges were filed, Winston-Salem police said.
Michael Earls, 44, of Stokes County was driving the truck westbound shortly before 1:30 on the highway when he encountered the car, said Brian Littler, the owner of B&A Flooring Services of Winston-Salem. Earls was driving the truck for the company.
The truck went about 70 feet after it left the off ramp of Linville Road, spilling several boxes of commercial tiles. Employees removed the tiles from the area.
Lexington City Council OKs $118,000 in incentives
LEXINGTON -- The city of Lexington will pay up to $118,000 in incentives to two companies planning to expand.
The Lexington City Council approved the incentives last night after holding public hearings. No one spoke for or against the incentives.
Over five years, the city would pay up to $80,000 to Vitacost, an Internet company that sells nutritional products.
Steve Googe, the executive director of the Davidson County Economic Development Commission, said that Vitacost plans to invest $5.7 million in its plant expansion and add 150 jobs. The company now employs 140 people and plans to build a 55,000-square-foot building at its current location.
The city is also giving as much as $38,000 over four years to Piedmont Candy Co., which is planning to build a 38,000-square-foot warehouse and manufacturing plant. It would invest $3.5 million and keep 55 jobs, Googe said.
Jury selection to start for 2 charged with murder
Attorneys are expected to start picking a jury today in the murder trial of two men charged with first-degree murder, robbery and larceny of a firearm in the death of a Kernersville man in 2005.
On trial are Kevin Jessup, 40, and Dwight Clodfelter, 20. Marcus Bowen Jr., 27, is the third defendant in the case and is expected to testify against Jessup and Clodfelter, David Hall, an assistant district attorney, said in Forsyth Superior Court yesterday.
The three are accused of breaking into Kim Tuttle's home in Kernersville on Sept. 27, 2005, then beating and shooting Tuttle when they found him at home. Prosecutors say they think that the men were stealing guns to sell to settle a debt they owed and that they meant to break into the house of a neighbor of Tuttle's. Clodfelter had been to the neighbor's house before and knew it had guns inside, Hall said.
Clodfelter's attorney, Ben Porter, failed to get Judge Todd Burke to throw out a statement by Clodfelter yesterday, arguing that Kernersville police and an SBI agent interrogated Clodfelter and detained him without reading him his Miranda rights.
Before giving the statement, Clodfelter had told detectives he would tell them everything if they would let him leave and return the next morning. Detectives testified that they didn't see that as a clear request to leave and that Clodfelter was always free to go.
Baptist issues statement criticizing Novant's appeal
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center yesterday criticized the decision by Novant Health Inc. to appeal the conditional approval of a new Davie County Hospital by state regulators.
On Aug. 28, the N.C. Division of Health Service Regulation approved an application by Baptist for a $100 million, 48-bed hospital in Advance. Novant filed an expected appeal of the state's decision Friday. The appeal is likely to delay the building of a new Davie hospital by at least a year.
"The appeal is nothing more than an attempt by Novant to protect its market share by delaying the people of Davie and surrounding counties from having a modern hospital," said Donny Lambeth, the interim president of N.C. Baptist Hospital.
Baptist and Davie County officials are trying to move forward with their plans, and met yesterday with the architect, HKS Inc. of Dallas, at the site of the proposed hospital.
The rival health-care systems have been jockeying intensely for a new community hospital since September 2007.
"We disagree with Baptist Hospital's characterization of our appeal regarding their proposal for Davie County Hospital," said Greg Beier, the president of acute-care services for Novant. "We are, just as they have in the past, exercising our right to engage in the appeal process as protected by law."
Dentist charged in wife's death may leave state
MOCKSVILLE -- The Clemmons dentist charged in the death of his wife can leave the state.
District Attorney Garry Frank said that bond restrictions were lifted yesterday for Kirk Alan Turner. He can leave the state as long as he signs a waiver form that says he won't fight extradition, Frank said.
Last December, Turner was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Jennifer. Her body was found in a shop building Sept. 12 on the 35-acre property at 627 Jack Booe Road that she once shared with her husband.
Turner is free on a $1 million bond.
About $2 million in grants go to Northwest counties
RALEIGH -- Nearly $2 million in grants for the 2008-09 program year were awarded yesterday to AmeriCorps programs serving portions of Northwest North Carolina, according to the N.C. Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service. AmeriCorps is an agency that promotes community service.
The grants are:
□ $694,832 for the Center for New North Carolinians at UNC Greensboro for the AmeriCorps Cross Cultural Education Service System. Local counties benefiting are: Alamance, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph and Surry.
□ $327,392 for the Stokes Partnership for Children to fund AmeriCorps and Children Together efforts toward AmeriCorps members serving as assistant pre-school teachers. Local counties benefiting are: Davie, Forsyth, Stokes and Surry.
□ $280,296 to the Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education at UNC Chapel Hill's School of Education to fund N.C. Literacy Corps. Local counties benefiting are: Alamance, Forsyth and Guilford.
□ $171,468 to the N.C. Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention toward the AmeriCorps Promise Fellows program. Local counties benefiting: are Ashe, Avery and Watauga.
□ $258,302 to the Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy for Project Conserve. Local counties benefiting are: Ashe, Avery, Watauga and Wilkes and Yancey counties.
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