Operation Lifesaver Has Greatly Reduced Crossing Fatalities Highway-rail grade crossing accidents claim the lives of hundreds of people each year. But the number of fatalities would be…
Most schools aren’t even in session yet and already there’s been a rash of reports of young athletes suffering from heat stroke with an alarming number of potentially heat-related…
Sellers call it pretty names like Vanilla Sky, Blue Silk, Ivory Wave, and Bliss. The proper name for this designer drug, known most commonly as “bath salts,” would be poison –…
Remember that last case of food poisoning? Odds are it was caused by a nasty pathogen called a norovirus. NC State will use a $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to lead a…
For four hours on Friday, August 5, The Burlington Police Department conducted “Operation Slow Down.” The goal was enforcement of the 35 MPH speed limit on North Church St. near Friendly…
The N.C. Department of Transportation’s Rail Division has made crossing safety improvements at an intersection in Kernersville. NCDOT updated the crossing signals and gates at the…
The deaths of children are always tragic and moving. So it is with the recent news from Danville, Virginia. On Wednesday a grand jury issued felony indictments for two women in connection with a…
There are new developments in the outbreak of antibiotic-resistant salmonella that I wrote about yesterday. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service…
Yesterday the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a public health alert pertaining to an outbreak of Salmonella linked to ground turkey. The alert is particularly serious as the bacterial…
Going green is all the rage these days and science generally supports the trend. Because of that, farmers’ markets, organic grocery stores, food co-ops, and homegrown foods have spiked. Most…
Parents often drive around with their young children in the car. Those parents also get into accidents while their young children are in the car. But what many parents don’t realize is that…
Hunters, trappers and anglers must have written permission from a landowner or leaseholder before hunting or fishing on privately-owned posted property according to a new law. Previously oral…