Burned body found in Yadkin County identified as Winston-Salem real estate...
YADKIN COUNTY, N.C. — Human remains found Monday in a burned car near East Bend were those of a real estate executive in Winston-Salem, authorities said Wednesday. The body of Charles G. Miller, the...
View ArticleGolden Corral restaurant in Winston-Salem closes after 20 years
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — The Golden Corral restaurant at 4965 University Parkway closed Dec. 30 — 20 years to the day it opened in 1995, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. Dave Gronewoller, the...
View ArticleWinston-Salem restaurant’s recipes to be featured at Chicago dinner
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — The recipes of chef Stephanie Tyson of Winston-Salem will be featured Jan. 20 during a Soul Food Week Dinner at Big Jones Restaurant in Chicago, according to the Winston-Salem...
View ArticleHot dog shop in Winston-Salem celebrates 50 years of business
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Turn on your parking lights. Buster Williams told the Winston-Salem Journal that’s the correct way to let the staff at Kermit’s Hot Dog House know that you want someone to come...
View ArticleNC below average in helping Medicaid recipients stop smoking
Great progress has been made in recent years in reducing the number of adult and youths who smoke. Federal health agencies reported in 2015 historic lows in smoking for adults (16.8 percent) and...
View ArticleWinston-Salem officer convicted in fatal crash suspended for violating policy
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A veteran Winston-Salem police officer who went through a red light and slammed into a truck driven by a 68-year-old man, killing him, has been suspended from the force. Sgt. John...
View ArticleWinston-Salem family turns backyard basketball court into ice hockey rink
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Turning a backyard basketball court into a mini ice hockey rink seems like a breeze, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. But turning a 20-by 30-foot court into a viable rink...
View ArticleSina Hayes of Winston-Salem, oldest N.C. resident, dies at 112
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Sina Joyner Hayes, 112, one of the oldest people in the world, died Friday at the Brookridge Retirement Community in Winston-Salem, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. “We...
View ArticleMicrofibres closing Winston-Salem plant, to lay off 125
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Microfibres Inc. said it is ending its U.S. manufacturing presence, including in Winston-Salem, in response to domestic and global textiles challenges that could lead to a...
View ArticleWinston-Salem based Texas Pete company introducing new Mexican-style hot sauce
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — TW Garner Food Co. is introducing a new hot sauce: ¡Sabor! by Texas Pete Mexican-style hot sauce will hit stores in mid-February, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. Just as...
View ArticleNo ruling on whether wife took items from murdered Irish man’s estate
LEXINGTON, N.C. — Another hearing will be needed to determine whether Molly Martens Corbett violated a court order by taking items from the home she shared with her husband, Jason Corbett. Molly...
View ArticleWinston-Salem man convicted in 17-year-old boy’s death in 2014
FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. — The fatal drive-by shooting of a 17-year-old boy in 2014 was the culmination of a series of altercations that began when a woman alleged that a group of young people had broken...
View ArticleFormer West Forsyth cheerleader will be at Super Bowl as part of Panthers’...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — All eyes will be on Cam Newton and his Carolina Panthers’ teammates Sunday, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. But in one pocket of Advance, a crowd of people will pay more...
View ArticleDecember shooting by Winston-Salem police trainee ruled an accident
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A Winston-Salem police trainee will not face criminal charges in what police have called the accidental shooting of his wife in December. Jessica Marie Tish, 24, of the 2500 block...
View ArticleWife, father-in-law plead not guilty in death of Jason Corbett in Davidson...
LEXINGTON, N.C. — Molly Martens Corbett and her father, Thomas Michael Martens, entered pleas of not guilty Wednesday in Davidson Superior Court to charges of second-degree murder and involuntary...
View ArticlePiedmont comedy club to change to rock music venue
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — The Laughing Gas Comedy Club, located at 2105 B Peter’s Creek Parkway, will close after its final show, featuring Tom Simmons, on Feb. 27, according to the Winston-Salem Journal....
View ArticleZiggy’s in Winston-Salem to close on Sunday night
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Countless musicians and music fans have passed through the doors and danced on the beer-stained floors of Ziggy’s, a nightclub that was born on Deacon Boulevard in the 1970s and...
View ArticleWSSU joins trend of providing food pantry for students
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A small food pantry is now open at Winston-Salem State University, stocked with breakfast and dinner staples, canned vegetables, boxes of macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and...
View ArticleReynolds American CEO gets 52 percent raise after Lorillard deal
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Susan Cameron, chief executive and president of Reynolds American Inc., received a significant fiscal 2015 compensation boost after the successful completion of the company’s...
View ArticleWife, accused in husband’s killing, ordered to return items taken from...
LEXINGTON, N.C. — Molly Corbett, who along with her father faces murder charges in the death of her husband, Jason Corbett, violated a court order when she took items from her home in January,...
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