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Regional Briefs: One person dies, another is hurt in Yadkin wreck
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Published: March 15, 2009
One person died and another was seriously injured in a wreck last night in northern Yadkin County between Boonville and East Bend, authorities said.
Emergency crews were dispatched to the scene at 4924 Siloam Road about 8:30 in response to reports of a wreck involving at least one person pinned in the vehicle, officials with the N.C. Highway Patrol in Salisbury said.
One person was taken by ambulance to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Yadkin County sheriff's officials said.
Further details weren't available last night.
Several streets will be closed while city crews do maintenance
City utilities crews will close streets in Ardmore and on the north side of town this week for water or sewer line repairs.
Academy Street between Broad and Laurel Streets and Hawthorne Road between Miller and Magnolia Streets will be closed Monday. The work is expected to be finished by that evening, weather permitting, city officials said.
Also starting Monday, North Cherry Street between Northwest Crawford Place and West 17th Street will be closed for about four weeks, to replace aging water and sewer lines.
Once that section is completed, lines will be replaced in the blocks south to 14th Street. That work is expected to last through May.
Detours will be posted on all closed streets.
For more information, call City Link at 727-8000.
Mother, two children die in house fire from which 18-year-old son escapes
CHARLOTTE -- A mother and two of her children died when fire swept through their apartment early yesterday, a fire official said.
The 37-year-old mother was pronounced dead at the scene and the two children, ages 13 and 2, died later at a hospital, Capt. Rob Brisley of the Charlotte Fire Department said.
He said that the woman's 18-year-old son escaped the fire unhurt and called 911. The first of three calls came in at 1:18 a.m. A fire engine arrived within two minutes, and firefighters pulled the mother and two children from the burning apartment.
Man given 12 to 15 years in prison after admitting having sex with girl
STATESVILLE -- A part-time North Carolina youth minister will spend at least 12 years in prison after admitting he had sex with a 15-year-old girl.
Everett Long of Statesville pleaded guilty to statutory rape last week in Iredell County Superior Court. Judge Mark Klass sentenced him to serve 12 to 15 years in prison.
Prosecutor Carrie Garvey said that Long was a father figure to the victim, whom he had sex with over two months in 2005.
Garvey said that Long eventually confessed to his wife and the girl's mother, then went to police after the mother said she was going to press charges.
Long told the court he was deeply remorseful for what happened.
Large bear near western residence causes a scare for Gov. Perdue
Gov. Bev Perdue said that a close encounter with a bear left her shaking after her trip to Western North Carolina.
Perdue said that a trooper called her Wednesday during her first night at the Governor's Western Residence telling her a bear had been seen nearby.
Perdue says she peeked into the backyard with a flashlight and saw a 200- to 300-pound bear about 20 feet from the home.
The governor says she quickly got her dogs inside from the front. Perdue said that the next night she prayed as she let the dogs out at dusk.
Wildlife officials say that bear sightings in the mountains should increase considerably in the next few weeks as the animals come out of their winter dens to look for food.
Large group of art masterworks from Louisiana on display in Charlotte
CHARLOTTE -- Works from artists including Monet, Picasso and Renoir are in Charlotte, courtesy of an exhibit from the New Orleans Museum of Art.
An exhibit titled "Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art" opened yesterday at the Mint Museum of Art. The Mint Museum said that the exhibit marks the largest collection of masterworks ever assembled in Charlotte.
Money raised for the New Orleans museum goes to its Katrina Recovery Fund.
The 2005 hurricane didn't cause a lot of damage to the museum's 40,000 pieces of art, partly because museum staff stayed there to protect the works.
But its building and sculpture garden suffered more than $6 million in damage.
The exhibit will continue through June 21.
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