Apparently “Mr. Happy” can give people some “Phantom Wicked Dreams” – or wicked damage to their bodies. Those are a couple of the names of “synthetic cannabinoids” – manufactured drugs that mimic the effects of marijuana. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this year…
GREENSBORO, NC – According to the last Census, North Carolina was the 6th fastest growing state in the nation. And according to safewise, a website that rates home security systems, that’s no surprise. Safewise chalks up the growth in the Tar Heel State to an…
Fact: Compared to a car, motorcycles are small. Therefore, they are harder to see. Most vehicles have blind spots. In the case of watching for motorcycles, even a small blind spot becomes huge. Drivers of cars and trucks need to be aware of that –…
HIGH POINT, N.C. – I love that song “Happy.” Don’t you? It just makes you feel so good. On Thursday morning, 8:33 a.m. to be exact, woman was posting just that sentiment to Facebook while she was driving. At 8:34 she was dead. The irony…
Some of the results are back. They’re really bad. Last week I wrote about the Department of Public Instruction’s program of tracking school bus passing violations. One day, each year, bus drivers across North Carolina count the number of vehicles that pass them with the…
How many cars in North Carolina pass a stopped school bus in a day? On Wednesday bus drivers were counting. And you can count on it that the number will be shocking. At the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013, I wrote about…
No one’s more aware of March Madness than those of us here in basketball-crazy North Carolina. It’s been even madder with the storms that have relentlessly slammed us as winter has seemed to be winding up when it should be winding down. But speaking of…
What’s the worst thing a teenager (or anyone) can do while driving? Drink, of course. Right? Maybe not – according to one analysis of a survey by the Centers for Disease…
“There’s an app for that.” Yo, that line has gotten so stale it’s like all 2011, yo. OK, that’s enough of my bad imitation of teenager-speak. But there…
Almost four out of five bikers agree: Wear a helmet. That’s according to a survey of North Carolina residents, funded by the North Carolina Governor’s Highway Safety Program…
UPDATE: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – A 17-year-old was charged with the hit-and-run accident that injured a 7-year-old girl at a school bus stop Monday morning. Accidents involving school…
UPDATE: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Late reports on Monday night from WFMY-TV News 2 and WXII-TV clarify some details of the incident in which a 7-year-old girl was struck by a car as she…