Julia Howard, a member of the state House since 1988 whose leadership positions have included senior chairwoman of the finance committee, might be facing her toughest campaign challenge in this year's Republican primary election.
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Three former Mocksville police officers have sued the town, its police chief and town manager, saying that the town fired the officers last year after they reported allegations of corruption and racism within the police department to state authorities.
Jessica Brown took her preschool daughter, Skylar, for library storytime at Lansing Town Hall recently. She decided to go on a quick field trip, walking down the hill to see firetrucks.
A Chapel Hill solar energy company will have to go through a public hearing on its bid to build a 5-megawatt facility in Mocksville.
The Triad's unemployment rate, as expected, rose sharply during January, the N.C. Commerce Department reported Tuesday.
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center unveiled plans Monday for more than just a long-awaited replacement hospital for Davie County.
Time magazine said today that a High Point businessman has been named as one of four regional finalists for its 2012 Dealer of the Year award.
The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina will begin two programs that deliver food to hungry families in more personal ways, including the expansion of a pilot program that delivers 65 pounds of food, per person, at drive-by distribution points such as high schools.
CenterPoint Human Services has started hiring an additional 89 employees in a pivotal workforce expansion as it transitions to a new status overseeing behavioral health services.
From his hospital bed on the sixth floor of Brenner Children's Hospital, Josh Rominger, who turned 17 this month, talks with a raspy voice, impeded by the presence of a tracheotomy tube.
A Davie County woman was charged last week with 19 counts of animal cruelty after investigators found more than 30 exotic cats living in what they described as filthy conditions as part of a breeding operation.
Board members of the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation complained Wednesday that they are not getting enough information about a federal audit of the agency's finances and what's being done to fix the problems raised in the audit.
At the Legogote Primary School in eastern South Africa, children do not use computers.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration issued a ruling Friday that increases certain protections for poultry and hog farmers.
The N.C. Department of Transportation will close one lane of Interstate 40 West near Bermuda Run today (Tuesday) for bridge repair work.
RALEIGH The N.C. Department of Transportation will close one lane of Interstate-40 West about one mile east of Farmington Road near Bermuda Run on Tuesday for bridge repair work.
A U.S. bankruptcy court judge has halted a Raleigh tobacco company’s bid to buy three Mocksville tobacco companies.
The snow that fell in the North Carolina mountains last weekend was the earliest measurable snowfall ever recorded in North Carolina, and less frosty precipitation — rain — in Forsyth County has moved it out of abnormally dry conditions.
Davie County and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. are hoping the company's donation of 360 acres of pasture land will serve as another economic catalyst for the Triad.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has donated 360 acres in Davie County with an estimated $3.5 million property-tax value, the county's Economic Development Commission said today.
The board of the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation voted Wednesday to ask counties it serves to make payments to shore up a $1.1 million shortfall or face a reduction in regional bus service.
The combination of more visitors to Forsyth County and higher fuel and food costs contributed to a 9.2 percent jump in spending last year to $622.9 million.
George and Gwen Frye have lived on Eaton Road in Mocksville for more than 50 years, long before a chicken-processing plant was built across the street from them on what had been a big cornfield.
GREENSBORO A former Davie County middle-school teacher was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Greensboro to 30 years in prison on federal charges of possessing, transporting and producing child pornography.
Below is Part 2 of a three-part series listing who has filed for municipal races in northwest North Carolina. Today's listing is for Davie, Stokes and Surry counties. For more filings listings, go to JournalNow.com.
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