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Regional Briefs: Baptist awarded $300,000 in grant
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Published: November 18, 2009
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $300,000 grant to the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
The center will use the grant to work with community cancer centers across the country to improve health-care disparities related to cancer "in underserved, disadvantaged and uninsured populations."
"The reality is that African Americans and other minority populations tend not to participate in clinical trials, preventing them from taking advantage of potentially life-saving therapies," said Dr. John Stewart IV, the project leader for the grant.
The grant will be used to initiate cancer patient-navigator programs and evaluate the role of patient navigators in clinical trials. The first participating centers are Gibbs Regional Cancer Center in Spartanburg, S.C., and St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Md. The program will be expanded to other centers over the next two years.
Man with gun robs fast-food restaurant on Patterson Avenue
A man robbed a fast-food restaurant in north-central Winston-Salem Monday night, police said.
Police said a man with a handgun entered Church's Chicken in the 1300 block of Patterson Avenue just before 11 p.m. He ran out with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The robber was described as a black male in his late 20s, 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, wearing a black coat with fur trim, a red bandana covering his mouth, and blue jeans.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 727-2800.
Navy doing another bird study at proposed landing site in N.C.
RALEIGH -- The Navy is conducting another bird study at a proposed North Carolina site for a practice landing field for pilots of fighter jets.
Surveys will be conducted from November through February to track migratory patterns at Hale Lake in Camden County. The Navy wants to build a landing field for F/A-18 Super Hornets to practice carrier takeoffs and landings before deployments.
1,000 Marines and sailors returning from Afghanistan
CAMP LEJEUNE -- About 1,000 marines and sailors from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment will return to their North Carolina base today after nearly nine months in Afghanistan.
The Camp Lejeune battalion was on the front lines during operations in Helmand province this spring and summer. The Marines were part of a surge of 12,000 troops to Afghanistan in the spring.
Charges expected in killing of bull elk in Smokies park
CATALOOCHEE -- Rangers in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park say they expect to charge a man with killing a bull elk found dead at the edge of a pasture in Cataloochee Valley on Friday.
Officials say someone wrote down a vehicle tag number, and they are investigating a Granville County man. His name had not been released because no charges have been filed.
Elk had been common in the region until they were wiped out by hunting and habitat loss in the early 19th century. The park reintroduced 25 elk to the valley in 2001. The herd has since grown to about 100 and has become a popular park attraction.
A person convicted of poaching in a national park can face jail time and fines.
Consumer-protection official in N.C. is nominated for FTC
RALEIGH -- North Carolina's consumer-protection chief for Attorney General Roy Cooper has been picked to join the Federal Trade Commission.
On Monday the White House announced President Obama's nomination of Julie Brill to the five-member commission that oversees consumer protection and lawful competition in the economy.
The Senate must confirm the nomination of Brill, who would serve a seven-year term.
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