A fire Monday night displaced two adults and two children and caused $100,000 in damage to a house at 357 Natalie Drive, authorities said yesterday.
The fire likely started shortly before 5:40 in the basement and spread into the house, the Winston-Salem Fire Department said. It took 17 firefighters about 50 minutes to put out the fire.
When firefighters arrived, they saw heavy smoke and flames coming from the front door, the front bedroom window and front porch, the fire department said.
Kenneth and Maria Combs and two children live in the house, the fire department said. The American Red Cross is assisting the Combses.
The fire department is investigating how the fire started.
Man pleads guilty to sales-tax evasion
RALEIGH -- A Walnut Cove man pleaded guilty Monday to two felony counts of attempting to evade paying local sales taxes for a Forsyth County business, authorities said.
Walter Bowden, 51, of 5485 Walls Lake Road entered the plea in Wake County Superior Court.
Judge William Pittman gave Bowden a suspended 5-to-6 month prison sentence, put him on probation for two years, fined him $5,000 and ordered him to perform 100 hours of community service, the N.C. Department of Revenue said.
State revenue investigators accused Bowden, the owner of C&D Group II Inc., and failing to pay the state and county sales-tax revenue that his business collected.
According to arrest warrants, Bowden misapplied $13,231 in state sales tax, $7,000 in Forsyth County sales tax, and $364 in scrap- tire taxes between Sept. 1, 2005, and April 30, 2009.
State Bar hearing for legislator delayed
RALEIGH -- A disciplinary hearing by the N.C. State Bar examining alleged misconduct by a state House member has been delayed.
The chairman of a panel that will listen to the case of Rep. Nick Mackey agreed to delay the hearing previously scheduled to begin Thursday. Mackey's attorney asked last month for more time to prepare. A new hearing date hasn't been set but it can be no sooner than early January.
Mackey is a Mecklenburg County Democrat and lawyer accused of breaking bar rules by failing to file timely tax returns and failing to mention on his bar application that he was investigated while he was a police officer.
Mackey could face punishment ranging from written warnings to disbarment if it is determined that he broke bar rules.
Paratrooper's body found in Afghanistan
FAYETTEVILLE -- The body of a Fort Bragg paratrooper missing since Nov. 4 has been found in western Afghanistan.
The Pentagon said that the body of Sgt. Brandon Islip, 24, of Richmond was found Sunday.
Islip and another paratrooper were swept away in a river current while on an airdrop resupply mission, The Fayetteville Observer reported.
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