Let's have a quick show of hands. Who else came to work Monday feeling like we just came off a national gastronomic holiday? Those 2.5 billion chicken wings didn't eat themselves.
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To state the obvious — not to mention ripping off and paraphrasing one of Hollywood's most memorable lines — Curtis Foster was mad as heck when he saw an intruder leaving a neighbor's house, and he wasn't going to take it anymore.
The first run-through listening to the verbal assault directed at a 15-year-old high-school student was brutal.
The true measure of just how bad the economy is can be found in Greg Carlyle's cellphone.
The email alerts bearing the news that Gov. Bev Perdue couldn't bear the prospect of seeking re-election had barely faded from computer screens and phone apps before candidates starting filling the trial balloons.
Even before a letter from convicted murderer Danny Robbie Hembree Jr. arrived at the offices of the Gaston Gazette, folks in Gastonia — particularly those in law enforcement — knew the 50-year-old wasn't a criminal mastermind.
Three 6-inch binders sit in the office of District Attorney Jim O'Neill. An angelic photo of a 6-year-old boy peers out from the covers and spines of two of those books.
Colleen Brehm remembers being blinded by headlights and raising her arm to shield her eyes from the glare, but not much else. And that's probably for the best.
Today is the day the girl has been waiting for with all the combined anticipation of Christmas, her Sweet 16 and her first high-school dance all rolled into one.
It shouldn't come as any huge surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that state Rep. Dale Folwell, R-Forsyth, is planning to run for a statewide office this year.
It was hard not to notice that something extraordinary was about to happen in first-appearances court.
The headlines in North Carolina newspapers were dramatic Wednesday morning. The news was so big that some national television and radio stations ran the reports, too.
B.J. Webb is 82, retired and in no way one of those "Hey-Kid-Get-Off-My-Grass" fuddy-duddies.
The old tobacco barn looks like hundreds of others that dot the landscape across Northwest North Carolina. Years of rain, sun and wind have rusted and dinged its tin roof; the thick, wood beams and planks that make up its walls have rotted.
It seemed like a simple enough concept the first time we heard it while learning about democracy, government and ethics in high school.
Damien Campbell wanted to get back indoors quickly Sunday. The afternoon was chilly, a front had brought wind and rain to Winston-Salem and so he didn't want to dawdle.
Even though he lives just a few dozen yards off Peters Creek Parkway and Business 40 — not to mention right behind a strip club that does a brisk business into the wee early morning hours — Jesse Williams has no trouble sleeping through the night.
An unseemly tale of sexual misconduct by a former Parkland High School teacher — and school officials' failure to report an earlier allegation against him — closed quietly last week when a lawsuit against the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools was settled.
The U.S. Postal Service has got nothing on Cliff Harris and the boys from the Veterans of Foreign Wars District 11 honor guard.
Some fill the marquees and large, portable message boards. Others are hand-lettered and taped to the corners of windows in mom-and-pop stores.
With no public notice and no public input, the Winston-Salem City Council on Monday night considered temporarily changing the city ordinance governing free speech and public assembly to prohibit such activities on City Hall grounds.
If not for an evening of apparent heavy drinking and one poor decision, hardly anybody in these parts — save a handful of hard-core political animals — would know the name Todd Poole.
Even for a building where visitors have to pass through a metal detector to get in, security appeared abnormally high Tuesday morning at the Forsyth County Hall of Justice.
Spam filters can only catch so much. Offers to split proceeds from overseas divorces, letters from special-interest groups and story pitches blow across the computer screen at the speed of a flying megabyte.
As odd as it sounds — especially when you consider the source — Bill Magness wasn't surprised that the man who shot him, killed his wife and fatally beat another man would try to pervert a law that nominally intended to remove race as a factor in death-penalty cases.
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