LEXINGTON -- Two men died when their car ran off the road and into a ravine early yesterday, according to the N.C. Highway Patrol, WGHP/FOX8 reported.
Troopers told WGHP/FOX8 that two men, a 23-year-old and a 28-year-old, were traveling on Odell Owen Road west of Lexington about 4 a.m. when the car went out of control, hit a guardrail, struck several trees and crashed into a ravine. Troopers said that the two men, whose names had not been released last night, were killed in the wreck.
Men killed after their car is rear-ended by another
DURHAM -- Two North Carolina men were killed when their car was hit from behind by another car that left the scene.
Timothy Parrish Jr., 24, and Keith Mitchell Durham, 37, died early Saturday, Sgt. Jeff D. Gordon of the N.C. Highway Patrol said.
Gordon said that witnesses reported seeing the two cars involved in the crash racing on U.S. 70 near Durham.
State troopers are looking for a blue or green Chevrolet TrailBlazer that likely has front-end damage. Investigators say that the TrailBlazer hit the Ford Taurus the two men were riding in, sending it off the right shoulder of the road and into woods.
Collision leaves man dead, five other people injured
TRINITY -- A High Point man died and five other people were injured when the vehicles they were in collided Saturday.
The wreck occurred about 12:40 p.m. on N.C. 62 in Trinity.
The man who died was Taj Khan, 68, of 2722 Allen Jay Road. Khan was riding in a car that his son, Amjad Khan, 31, was driving north on N.C. 62, said Trooper R. Campbell of the N.C. Highway Patrol said.
While trying to make a left turn onto Turnpike Road, the Khans' car was struck by a sports utility vehicle with four people inside, Campbell said.
Neither alcohol nor speed was a factor in the wreck, he said.
Amjad Khan was taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
The four people in the SUV were taken to High Point Regional Hospital. Their conditions were not available.
Red Cross helping man left homeless after brush fire
THURMOND -- A fire destroyed a mobile home in northeastern Wilkes County Saturday, displacing but not injuring the owner, said Lanny Whitaker, the chief of the State Road Volunteer Fire Department.
Firefighters were called to 2539 South Center Church Road about 2:35 p.m., Whitaker said.
They arrived to find that an unattended brush fire had spread to the mobile home, he said. It took almost 3 hours to completely extinguish the fire.
The Red Cross is helping the homeowner, Whitaker said.
Assault of education official from Greenville investigated
RALEIGH -- Police are investigating an assault on a member of the N.C. State Board of Education.
Kathy A. Taft was hospitalized Saturday with serious injuries, Jim Sughrue, a spokesman for the Raleigh Police Department, said in a news release yesterday.
After an initial investigation, police said they were treating the case as an assault. Taft lives in Greenville but was at a Raleigh home when emergency medical workers picked her up.
Taft was appointed to the state board by former Gov. Jim Hunt in 1995. She was reappointed to serve a second term in 2003. Her term will expire March 31, 2011.
N.C. man arrested in death of another at bar in S.C.
GAFFNEY, S.C. -- A North Carolina man has been arrested in a shooting death at a South Carolina bar last month.
Calvin O'Brian Gullatte, 20, of Shelby was arrested in the shooting of another man in Gaffney on Valentine's Day.
Police detective Jonathan Blackwell said that Gullatte was arrested without incident in Shelby on Thursday and is awaiting extradition to South Carolina.
He is accused of killing Sergio Trevon Leary, 20, of Boiling Springs, N.C., outside the bar a block from the Gaffney Police Department.
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