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Regional Briefs: Student is accused of having gun shells at Carver
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Published: November 20, 2009
A student at Carver High School was charged yesterday with misdemeanor possession of a weapon on educational property, court records show.
Moises Ernesto Berrios, 16, of 4937 Kaysboro Drive in Winston-Salem was accused of having shotgun shells at the school, where he is a freshman, an arrest warrant said.
Berrios was being held last night in the Forsyth County Jail with his bond set at $500. He is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 18.
Woman wins trip to Hawaii
A Winston-Salem woman won a trip to Hawaii on Live with Regis & Kelly yesterday.
Laura Goodman, a stay-at-home mom, has been submitting her phone number to the show for about a year. The show has a contest in which viewers answer a trivia question based on the previous day's show.
"I figured, if I watch it every day, why don't I sign up?" Goodman said.
She got the call yesterday morning, asking her to identify the rock singer Kristen Stewart is playing in a coming movie. She correctly answered Joan Jett.
She won a trip for two, worth approximately $5,200, to Turtle Bay Resort in Hawaii.
"I was really excited," Goodman said. "I've always wanted to go (to Hawaii), I've never been."
Two nursing homes get grants
RALEIGH -- Two nursing homes in Northwest North Carolina are among 18 statewide receiving grant money to improve their facilities.
The local grant recipients are Blowing Rock Hospital Long-Term Care, which will receive $12,794 for an outdoor activity and garden area, and the Lutheran Home of Winston-Salem, which will receive $22,500 for a new computer system.
The two-year grants are being financed by fines paid to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services by homes that have been cited for deficiencies in the provision of services under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act.
Nonprofit group has new office
About 20 people attended an open house yesterday at the Faith Seeds Community Re-entry Coalition's new offices at 2290 Premier Park Lane off 14th Street.
Faith Seeds is a nonprofit organization that helps ex-offenders after they have been released from prison, said Margaret Brown, the organization's executive director.
It is one of three programs that help ex-offenders in Forsyth County.
The organization offers GED classes, helps its clients find jobs and housing and provides support groups that help ex-offenders re-establish relationships with their spouses, girlfriends, boyfriends and children.
It has 267 clients, and 38 percent of them have found jobs, said John Austin, the organization's employment specialist. The organization received a $153,069 grant this year from the Governor's Crime Commission.
Official spotted at courthouse
RALEIGH -- An assistant secretary for the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources was at the federal courthouse where prosecutors are seeking information about former Gov. Mike Easley.
Assistant Secretary for Environment Robin Smith left the Raleigh courthouse yesterday morning but declined to say whether she had testified before a grand jury.
DENR said that Smith and five other current or retired agency employees received subpoenas directing them to appear this week.
The subpoenas also sought documents related to coastal developments by a pair of brothers with ties to Easley and questions about whether payoffs were made to state regulators.
The agency isn't aware of wrongdoing by the department.
Easley's former campaign manager testified Wednesday before the grand jury.
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