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<title><![CDATA[Sad So-Long: Edna Stanley dies]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Friends, neighbors and acquaintances have been keeping an eye on Leroy and Edna Stanley for years.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Line of Duty: Officer restores public face of police department marred by past]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A split second, the blink of an eye, irrevocably changed Officer Daniel Clark's life. While answering a domestic-disturbance call Oct. 7 -- something a police officer might do hundreds of times over the course of a career -- Clark was forced to do the one thing a good officer hopes never to do: fire his weapon and take a life.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Best Choice: When Perdue picked O'Neill to replace Keith, she chose wisely  ]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[On the face of it, Gov. Bev Perdue's decision to appoint Jim O'Neill to fill the remaining term of District Attorney Tom Keith looked to be a bit of a shocker.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Free Lunch?: Independent pharmacist says discount card from city has down side ]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The deal looked too good to be true: discount cards for prescription drugs provided free to residents of Winston-Salem at no cost to the city.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Not Forget: A time to recall what's lost]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[At first, it didn't make sense. Why hold a vigil on a Friday in mid-November? Teresa Ann Johnson disappeared Sept. 16, 1997, and her body was found 16 days later near the railroad tracks running alongside Old Walkertown Road.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Do-Over: City trying again with inspection plan]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Thrown in jail once for refusing to allow an unreasonable inspection inside his home, Julius Davis was understandably wary when he opened a letter dated Oct. 27 from Winston-Salem's Neighborhood Services Department.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Call of Duty: Five brothers answered, served during World War II]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The photo -- actually it's a composite that Earl Hucks had made for the occasion -- was a big hit among a group of World War II veterans who flew to Washington late last month on the Triad Flight of Honor.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What it Means: 9 percent had say]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Everything you needed to know about Tuesday's election -- the 1,000 words of this campaign season -- could be seen yesterday morning on the corner of Sherwood Drive and Lockland Avenue in Winston-Salem's Ardmore neighborhood.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Local election interesting this year; why not be a part of it]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[This won't come as a surprise to those of you who care -- history tells us it won't be many -- but local elections are being held across North Carolina today.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Closing of Hanesbrands plant seen as inevitability, accepted]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[In the beginning, the onslaught of numbers seemed an affront, a fist-shaking outrage.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Triad veterans get a visit to the memorial of their war]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Augmented by sirens, police escorts and brass bands, yesterday's Triad Flight of Honor took on the flavor of a reunion combined with a Veterans Day parade.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Victim of rapist has thoughts  for others]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[When Kathy picked up the phone, she was not speaking as the frightened 15-year-old who was raped by John Montgomery in 1974.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Long-awaited Gateway project almost complete]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[For nearly two years, a wooden span crossing Salem Creek near the Southeast Gateway has been fenced off and padlocked.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Counselor at Mills Home devoted to making his charges' lives better]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/oct/18/counselor-at-mills-home-devoted-to-making-his-char/opinion-columnists-ssexton/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Once Kevin Kiser settled into his job as a counselor at the Mills Home, it didn't take long to notice some of the thingsthat  his young charges liked to do.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How would returned incentives money be used?]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Assume for the moment that officials at Dell Inc. decide that  it's not worth their trouble to quibble over the millions they leveraged from local government in negotiating for their now soon-to-close Forsyth County plant.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hutchens: He wanted to protect and to serve]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Everything anybody wanted to know about Sgt. Mickey Hutchens of the Winston-Salem Police Department could be heard toward the end of a simple answering machine greeting at his Yadkin County church.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:09:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Crowds Came - People turn out, tend to keep their money]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The question was easy enough: Was the 2009 edition of the venerable Dixie Classic Fair a success?]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Voters make this a year of change for City Council]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[With less than a month to go before the general election, voters in Winston-Salem -- those scant few who actually care how their money is spent, anyway -- seem determined to make this a year of change.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dell debacle  is a good  lesson, if we dare to learn]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Dude, we had a Dell. 

Not quite for five years, but we at least had the plant, and a few hundred people worked jobs that they might not have had otherwise.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['All we can do is stick together']]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Police chief Scott Cunningham, on the job in Winston-Salem for a little more than 15 months, found himself yesterday tending to the one thing that he had hoped that he would never have to face again when he agreed to take his position: keeping vigil in a hospital with the family of a gravely wounded officer.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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