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Regional Briefs: Gloria Steinem will lecture at Salem College
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Published: September 11, 2008
Gloria Steinem, a noted author and activist, is coming to Salem College this month.
Steinem will speak at 7 p.m. Sept. 30 in Hanes Auditorium in the Salem Fine Arts Center.
Steinem has been an outspoken advocate for women's equality for more than 30 years. At Salem, she will discuss the workplace, the politics of gender, and the economic power of the female and minority consumer market.
The speech is sponsored by the Committee on Cultural Events.
Tickets are $13.29 and will go on sale at noon Sept. 18 on Salem's Web site at www.salem.edu.
Wake Forest cancels concert of chamber music on Friday
"Ivory, Wood and Steel: Chamber Music for Clarinet, Viola and Piano," a concert scheduled for Friday in Brendle Recital Hall at Wake Forest University, has been canceled because of a death in the family of one of the musicians.
As of yesterday, a makeup date had not been announced. For more information, call 758-5364.
State division offers seminar on green business practices
KERNERSVILLE -- Officials with the N.C. Division of Pollution Prevention will speak at a Green Business Seminar at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Town Hall.
The workshop is free and open to local businesses, nonprofit organizations, community groups and residents. It will provide information from government officials and business leaders on how to conserve energy, water, resources and money, town officials said in a statement.
Participants can ask questions about the environment and learn about innovations being made in sustainable business practices. For more information, call 996-6417.
Weather contributed to death of trooper, highway patrol says
RALEIGH -- Officials with the N.C. Highway Patrol said that a trooper killed in an accident Tuesday lost control of his vehicle on a wet road and slammed into a garbage truck.
Capt. Everett Clendenin said in a statement yesterday that Trooper A.J. Stocks, 43, was responding to a wreck when he crossed dividing lines on a curve on a wet road in Garner.
He overcorrected while trying to regain control, causing his car to slide into a garbage truck. The truck's driver, Brian Buckner, 23, suffered minor injuries.
The speed of the patrol vehicle has not been determined, but officials say they don't believe that it was excessive.
Stocks is the 60th trooper to die in the line of duty since 1929. He leaves behind a wife and one child.
Final prosecution in Robeson misconduct case ends in plea
FAYETTEVILLE -- The last of nearly 25 Robeson County law-enforcement officers prosecuted in a federal misconduct investigation has been sentenced to six months in prison.
Former sheriff's Deputy Waldo Pat Stallings pleaded guilty to making false statements to a government agency. He also received two years of probation.
Stallings was among more than 20 law-enforcement officers who pleaded guilty in the last two years to crimes that included kidnapping, money laundering, racketeering, theft of federal money and satellite piracy.
WE WERE WRONG
A headline Tuesday incorrectly referred to Nancy Kasera's plea in connection with the death of her daughter. Kasera entered an Alford plea in Davidson Superior Court to second-degree murder, meaning that she did not admit to guilt but acknowledged that the state had enough evidence for a conviction.
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