Police are investigating a shooting in Durham Monday morning that left a woman seriously injured. Witnesses said the victim was in a car travelling down North Alston Avenue when the back window was shot out. The car stopped at Flatford Court and an ambulance was called. Witnesses said the victim suffered a gunshot wound to […]
Here’s a story that would make a great movie: White boy grows up in Alabama small town during the civil rights era, his father a hard-drinking racist. The son rejects dad, marches with King and becomes a hippie preacher. At a black church in Kansas City, he spends 40 years doing good deeds for his […]
Monday night’s BCS Championship Game in Arizona wasn’t the shootout that everyone predicted, but it was the nail-biter that everyone wanted. Auburn kicker Wes Byrum nailed a 19-yard field goal as time expired to seal the title for the Tigers, the second national championship in program history. The first came in 1957, well before the […]
Slick, slushy roads made for tough traveling conditions across the Triangle early this morning. Authorities advise you to stay inside, off the roads if you can. “The roads are very bad,” said North Carolina Department of Transportation engineer Joseph Turner. Highways were slowly clearing up Tuesday, but secondary roads were still dangerous. The State Highway […]
Along with the headline news and my recent post about How Faith Helped Uncover A Golden Voice, I continued to research how people react to those around them who are struggling through the challenges of living in everyday life. I came across the short film that actor, Danny Glover, directed and starred in. The short […]
The National Weather Service has issued winter storm warnings as a system bringing snow and freezing rain arrives in central North Carolina today and because of this system some schools are closed others closing early check to see if your school is listed. PUBLIC SCHOOLS Academy of Moore County Closed Alamance-Burlington Schools Closed Alpha Academy […]
The homeless man with the golden voice, Ted Williams, is reunited with his mother, Julia Williams, 90, in New York Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Williams, who was living in a tent near a highway in Columbus, Ohio, just days ago, became an online video sensation when the Columbus Dispatch posted a video of him speaking […]
Two Mississippi sisters whose life sentences were suspended after one agreed to donate her kidney to the other were freed from prison this morning. The Clarion-Ledger newspaper says 38-year-old Jamie Scott and 36-year-old Gladys Scott left Central Mississippi Correctional Facility through a crush of news media en route to a reunion with their mother in […]
A listener concerned about a family member in another state called to share the story. A female Pastor in a growing ministry was told by her husband of two years that he no longer believes in female Pastors. They have children and the church is prospering and funding their home and vehicles. He had told […]
I always wore a short cut in college, so for 2011 I decided to go back. Thanks to Jaz at Mane Emotions who also did my hair for the Lamplighter Awards (when it was long).