Stokes News

Students in Kinston High School's French Club did more than learn the language this year: they took steps to experience the culture.

Gov. Bev Perdue announced today that 31 contracts totaling $73 million have been awarded for highway and bridge projects across North Carolina, including 11 projects funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The Wake County Public School System will award diplomas to 8,094 students in 21 ceremonies through Sunday, June 14.

Both the detailed microstructure and the macroscopic properties are determined for a suspension of identical rigid spherical particles in a simple shear flow.

A strong line of thunderstorms have prompted a tornado watch for Wataugua, Ashe, Alleghany, Wilkes, Surry, Stokes, Rockingham and Caswell Counties in North Carolina and Grayson, Carroll, Patrick, Henry and Pittsylvania Counties in Virginia until 3am.

FirstHealth Center for Health and Fitness Operations Director Patti Friedman recognizes local pastor Michael Skinner at a New Year, New You celebratory dinner Tuesday night.

The group of Mount Olive College business students who traveled to Mexico during the outbreak of swine flu made it back to Raleigh a little later than scheduled Saturday night after stopping for a quick medical exam, but arrived home safely and show no signs of illness.

Administrators of the struggling State Health Plan did not inform legislators for at least four months last year about multimillion-dollar financial problems, the state auditor's office reported Thursday.

The bailout covered losses generated since then. Most of the reason for the 2008 loss was the introduction of a more affordable, more generous preferred provider plan that led about 76,000 to shift plans and another 30,000 new members to join, the report by Auditor Beth Wood's office said.

In his 13 years as Rowan County Animal Control Supervisor, Clai Martin said he can only remember three requests from the public to view the euthanasia process, and all of those were received this year.

GMAC Insurance said yesterday that it is eliminating 54 jobs in its Personal Lines division, effective immediately, with 27 employees being affected in each of its Winston-Salem and St.

During the 19th century, new homes in Iredell County were built in a wide variety of styles determined by terrain, climate, available materials and fashion.

The vote was unanimous at the King City Council meeting on Monday night. Council members Dillard Burnette, Carolyn Byerly and Gray Southern were in perfect agreement as they voted to support a resolution opposing Governor Beverly Perdue's proposal to tax tobacco products even more.

After Thursday's accident between an ECU Transit bus and a bicycle that led to the bicyclist's death, ECU students have had mixed responses to the incident.

Andrew Bates had heard people say that opera is long and boring. But the fifth-grader at the Sallie B. Howard School for Arts and Education found out first hand that opera isn't boring.

Admittedly, award-winning author Ron Rash's primary concerns are children and the environment, which are subjects featured in his stories.

Southern Community Bank and Trust has signed a lease to put an ATM at street level at the MINIM building planned for downtown Winston-Salem, the developer said yesterday.

Hey, read the rules! A man from Stokes in Pitt County died in a single-car crash Sunday.

Twelve of the 55 Park Scholars in the class of 2013 at N.C. State University are from the Triangle.

The Rocky Mount City Council will consider Monday two small additions to the city's second phase of its downtown streetscape design plan.