By Ann Doss Helms and April Bethea, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Mar. 12--Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools needs $28.4 million more from the county to cover rising enrollment and costs in 2008-09, Deputy Superintendent Maurice Green told the school board Tuesday.

By Lisa Boone-Wood, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Nov. 21--Jeanette "Jenny" Kirksey Braswell says she plans to focus on improving staff morale when she takes over next month as the interim director of the Stokes County Health Department, which lost both its director and a physician last month.

By Lisa Hoppenjans, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jun.

By Monte Mitchell, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Apr. 4--Wilkes County officials voted yesterday to select an architectural firm for a new jail and law-enforcement center that county leaders hope to open in 2010. "It's pretty exciting....

By Adrienne Packer By ADRIENNE PACKER REVIEW-JOURNAL Clark County attorneys delivered severance agreements Friday to two top University Medical Center executives who had been placed on paid administrative leave earlier this week, according to a county source.