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When the textile mill goes, so does a way of life (USA Today)
In textile towns across the Southeast, thousands of workers are starting over again, sometimes painfully.When the textile mill goes, so does a way of life (USA Today) Mount Airy, N.C., has lost thousands of textile jobs sincd 1999, and the U.S. has lost hundreds of thousands. Those jobs won't be coming back. That has changed life in the town that was the model for The Andy Griffith Show's Mayberry.
Regional Briefs: Former Spelman president to speak (Winston-Salem Journal) Donald Stewart, a former president of Spelman College, will be the keynote speaker at Winston-Salem State University's spring commencement ceremony May 8 at Joel Coliseum.
Affected beneficiaries (Winston-Salem Journal) Nearly 3,800 Medicare beneficiaries in the Triad and Northwest North Carolina are affected by the suspension of Fox Insurance Co.
3-8 Sports Scoreboard (Minot Daily News) Pro Baseball MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct Cleveland 2 0 1.000 Tampa Bay 4 1 .800 Toronto 4 1 .800 Chicago 2 1 .667 Kansas City 2 1 .667 Oakland 2 1 .667 Boston 3 2 .600 Detroit 3 2 .600 Seattle 2 2 .500 Minnesota 2 3 .400 Texas 1 2 .333 Baltimore 1 4 .200 New York 1 4 .200 Los Angeles 0 2 .000 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct San Francisco 4 1 .800 Florida 3 1 .750 New York 5 2 .714 Atlanta 4 2 .667 ...
The Deep End: Homeowners who owe more than their house is worth feel brunt of tough economy (Winston-Salem Journal) Jeff Catlin is growing weary of treading water to keep his modest three-bedroom home in Pfafftown. He owes more on the house than it's worth, and he's been waiting nearly 10 months for a life preserver -- final approval of a home-modification mortgage plan from Saxon Mortgage Co.
Brasfield Sentenced For Incident With Student (WXII-TV Winston-Salem) The verdict is finally in on former South Stokes schoolteacher, John C. Brasfield, 56. He was sentenced on Friday, February 26, after pleading guilty in Stokes County Superior Court to assault on a female.
For The Record (Winston-Salem Journal) Reynolds 5, Parkland 4
Election Filings of Northwest North Carolina (Winston-Salem Journal) Here are the candidates running for election in Northwest North Carolina:
76-year-old man has trouble proving to the DMV that he exists ... and that he's not a terrorist (Daily Press) Haywood Battle arrived at the Department of Motor Vehicles Thursday morning ready to live up to his name and get his driver's license renewed at last.