GREENSBORO -- A second boy died yesterday from injuries he sustained in a wreck Sunday that involved five cars and a tractor-trailer, authorities said.
Isaiah Reynolds, 11, of Winston-Salem died at Moses Cone Hospital, Greensboro police said in a news release.
Isaiah withdrew last summer from Middle Folk Elementary School in Walkertown, said Theo Helm, a spokesman for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.
Darryl Baucum, 15, Isaiah's brother, died Sunday at the hospital from injuries he sustained in the wreck. Baucum was a freshman at Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem.
Darryl and Isaiah were passengers in a car involved in the wreck, which occurred at 6:10 p.m. Sunday on Interstate 40 near the High Point Road exit and closed all eastbound lanes, police told WGHP/FOX8, the news-gathering partner of the Winston-Salem Journal.
Darryl and Isaiah were among nine people injured who were taken to Moses Cone Hospital.
Two other victims were in stable condition yesterday, police said. Five other injured people have been released from the hospital.
Jayne Perkins, 39, of Oxford, Ark., has been charged with two counts of misdemeanor death by motor vehicle, police said. Perkins was released from custody after she posted a $2,500 bond.
Ex-teacher sentenced to 3 months in jail
LEXINGTON -- A former teacher at Thomasville High School will spend three months in jail after pleading guilty last week to charges that he had an inappropriate relationship with a female student.
Edward Heath Williamson, 33, pleaded guilty on May 3 in Davidson Superior Court to two counts of sexual offense with a student. Judge Mark Klass sentenced Williamson to 13 to 16 months in prison.
Klass suspended all but three months and ordered Williamson to serve 36 months of supervised probation.
He also must register as a sex offender for 30 years and must not have any contact with any children other than his own.
The student was over the age of 16. Williamson was an instructional technological facilitator, a job that focused on helping teachers and students incorporate technology in the classroom. He had been at Thomasville High for about three years and also had been the quarterbacks coach for the high school's football team.
After he was arrested in January, Williamson was suspended with pay. Once school officials completed an investigation, Williamson was fired, Associate Superintendent James Carmichael said.
Nurse charged in prescription fraud
MOORESVILLE -- Authorities say that a Mooresville nurse has been charged with obtaining about 3,400 tablets of hydrocodone, a narcotic pain reliever, by hacking into an electronic prescription system.
The Iredell County Sheriff's Office arrested Kara Lee Roland, 35, of Mooresville on Friday. She is a licensed practical nurse who worked for OrthoCarolina, an orthopedic-care provider based in Charlotte.
Officials at OrthoCarolina say they learned of the fraudulent prescriptions in February and fired Roland the next day. They said they also reported her to state agencies and local law enforcement.
Roland faces two counts of trafficking opium and two counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud in Mecklenburg County.
Coast Guard searching for missing boaters
FORT MACON -- Coast Guard helicopters and planes searched yesterday for two boaters after their vessel was found capsized off the North Carolina coast.
The Coast Guard said that the search began in the morning after a passing boat found a 31-foot Fountain powerboat overturned about 30 miles south of Cape Lookout National Seashore.
A man suffering from hypothermia was clinging to the capsized boat and reported that two other people had been aboard. The Coast Guard said that the boat capsized Monday morning and that both missing boaters were wearing life jackets.
A helicopter and plane crews from Elizabeth City are working with a boat from Fort Macon and the Coast Guard Cutter Beluga.
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