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House panel tightens rules for railroad company
Winston-Salem Journal
House panel tightens rules for railroad company - Winston-Salem Journal: Local. Wednesday, March 20th, 2013. Advanced Search · 39° · Clear · Home · NEWS · Ask Sam · Business · Columnists · Local · State / Region · Journal West · Nation / World ...

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Standard & Poor's lowers BB&T's outlook
Winston-Salem Journal
The credit ratings agency took away the Winston-Salem bank's "stable" outlook. In making that decision, S&P cited both the Fed's objection last week to the bank's capital plan and S&P's own concerns about weakness in the way the bank manages risk.
S&P lowers BB&T outlook to 'negative'Charlotte Observer
BB&T becomes 12th largest bank in U.S.The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area (blog)

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Lowes Foods opens Just $ave store in Charlotte
Winston-Salem Journal
Lowes Foods opens Just $ave store in Charlotte Fran Daniel/Winston-Salem Journal Winston-Salem Journal. Lowes Foods, based in Winston-Salem, has opened a Just $ave discount foods store at 5300 Sunset Road in Charlotte. Just $ave products include ...

New safety center not the answer schools are looking for
Winston-Salem Journal
That's all well and good, said Darrell Walker, assistant superintendent of operations for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, but what the district really needs is more eyes – not more policies. “If I had one wish to start with…it would be ...

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Charlotte Observer
49ers pitcher follows his heart, chooses football, his 'first love'
Charlotte Observer
He received football offers from NCAA Football Championship Division schools like Appalachian State and Elon and Division II Catawba. But he was more highly regarded in baseball and elected to play for the 49ers over East Carolina and N.C. State.

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FCD basketball coach to step down
Winston-Salem Journal
But McHale, a native of Long Island, N.Y., said that it was also going to be hard to leave Winston-Salem, where he has lived for more than 25 years. “I consider Winston home; and when I travel, people ask me where I am from and I say Winston, and they ...

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Dwayne Boggs Inspects Homes Throughout Thurston, Mason, Lewis & Pierce ...
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Being able to turn to a professional, knowledgeable home inspector that will educate you about the home seals the deal. Boggs Inspection Services. www.boggsinspect.com or via Facebook. boggsinspect@gmail.com. 360.480.9602 (office). PrintFriendly and ...

WSSU students ready for stock market action
Winston-Salem Journal
T. Linwood Woodley (seated), manager of the Winston-Salem State University Student Investment Fund, shows Jane Harris (from left), Deric Lam and Justus Harris the stock and bond trading programs they use in the new Financial Trading Room in the ...

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High Point University (press release) (blog)
Civitan Club Extends Sign-Up Dates for Homeless Awareness Campout
High Point University (press release) (blog)
The event is open to the public and will kick off at 7 p.m. on March 22 in the former J.C. Penney parking lot at Oak Hollow Mall in High Point. During the event, HPU students, faculty and staff, members of the community and members of Open Door ...

The Aggies will face No. 1 seed Louisville on Thursday.

Three days after two inmates escaped from the Guilford County Jail in High Point, what are investigators doing to find them?

 

Young professionals seek input on downtown Greensboro planning
Greensboro News & Record
Leaders of the groups synerG Young Professionals, Greensboro Jaycees, the Future Fund, Face to Face and the young lawyers section of the Greensboro Bar Association presented the City Council on Tuesday with a white paper on the changes they would ...

NCAA.com
UMKC hires Louisville assistant Richardson
NCAA.com
Louisville assistant Kareem Richardson was hired Tuesday as the new coach at UMKC, where he'll be rebuilding a program that has never qualified for the NCAA postseason and is leaving the Summit League for the Western Athletic Conference next season ...
UMKC hires Kareem RichardsonKTVO

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Railroad safety enforcement in Alamance County
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BURLINGTON, N.C.– Norfolk Southern Police and Alamance County law enforcement agencies are working together to reduce train accidents. Six Amtrak passenger trains and several freight trains travel across Alamance County daily, and though most pass ...

Elizabeth Warren Writing Book On Middle Class
Huffington Post
She will be represented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett, whose other clients have included two previous senators from Massachusetts, Brown and the late Edward M. Kennedy. Any deal for "Rigged" is subject to approval by the Senate's .... Maria ...

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Hollywood found Winston-Salem in 1925
Winston-Salem Journal
was heard in Winston-Salem in June 1925 when producer/director Don O. Newland arrived to film a two-reel comedy titled “Winston-Salem's Hero.” The silent movie was compared to the slapstick comedies popularized by famed director Mack Sennett.

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Mousa Alshanteer: We must end homelessness among vets
High Point Enterprise
... find other means by which we can serve those who served us at some point in their lives. This is, above all, our essential duty as American citizens. Mousa Alshanteer is a freshman at Duke University and a 2012 graduate of High Point Central High ...

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The Marines were part of the 2nd Marine Division, a ground combat force based at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

 

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Buyer Beware: Tax Services
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The Better Business Bureau of Central North Carolina also received another complaint from a Burlington woman named Nancy Alvarez. By phone Alvarez said LBS had charged here between $900 and $1,000 as well. At the store, which is located in a strip ...

An Asheboro woman who lost her legs in a wreck is helping someone else get back on her feet.