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By The Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - They aren't America's heaviest newborn twins on record, but they certainly tip the scales: Sean William Maynard and Abigail Rose Maynard weighed in at a combined 23 pounds and 1 ounce at birth this week, a North Carolina hospital announced Friday. Freda Springs, spokeswoman for Forsyth Medical Center, said the twins were delivered two minutes apart by Caesarean section on Tuesday at the center's Sara Lee Center for Women's Health in...

By Richard Craver, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Jun. 18--Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. is committed to a recipe with more substance than style, and more reality checks than hoopla, its chairman and chief executive said yesterday. James Morgan cautioned against "over optimism" at the annual shareholders meeting, which came eight days after the company reported its first profitable quarter in 3 1/2 years. He said that there likely will be some "unevenness" in quarterly performances for up to...

By Michael Hewlett, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Jun. 17--LEXINGTON -- Yesterday, nothing but large chunks of debris were left of one of the apartment buildings that stood for years in Park Circle at historic Erlanger Mill Village. And workers were getting ready to knock the second building down. For city officials and some residents in the neighborhood, the destruction of those apartments marks the beginning of the neighborhood's revitalization. "We're so thankful to see those things come...

WINSTON SALEM, N.C., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ticketmaster, the world's leading ticketing company, and Lowes Foods are teaming up to open 58 Ticketmaster retail ticket center locations in Lowes Foods stores across the state of North Carolina. Fifteen Triad area Lowes Foods Ticketmaster locations are scheduled to open and begin selling tickets on Saturday, December 15, 2007 with the remaining locations to follow early 2008. Tickets to events at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex, the...

By Dan Galindo, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Nov. 11--A Winston-Salem man who was killed early Friday shot at the men who had broken into his duplex, possibly hitting one, a search warrant says. Leon Denard Conrad, 29, was found dead inside his duplex on Myrtle Avenue, off Yadkinville Road, about 1:20 a.m. Police were called to his house on a reported drive-by shooting, but officers found signs of what appeared to have been a gunfight inside the house. They found spent and unspent rounds...

By Laura Giovanelli, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Oct. 13--When Maddie Brewer was a newborn, she was so tiny she could fit into the pocket of one of her nurses' scrubs. For weeks, she made her home in the neonatal intensive-care unit at Forsyth Medical Center. But she wasn't the only Brewer there. Maddie shared the NICU with her four siblings, the first quintuplets to be born at the medical center and only the ninth set to be born in North Carolina. Nurses at the medical center called...

By Paul Garber, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Sep. 27--LEWISVILLE Debbie Hampton grew up on Main Street in the small Davidson County community of Denton and spent most of her career in education in her home county. This school year, she is making a change, taking over as principal of Lewisville Elementary School while making a leap from a rural to an urban school system. The Lewisville job was a chance "to step out of a comfort zone and try something different," Hampton said in an...

By Titan Barksdale, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. May 14--By 9 a.m. yesterday, callers had jammed the telephone lines for a gospel-radio program with Anita "Boss Lady" Dean as host. Dean had just gone on the air. She whispered a prayer and anointed the microphone in the studio before speaking. "Good morning ... praise is what I do," she said into the microphone. "Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers, and I want you to stop right now, wave your hands and say thank you God for another day."...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- More than a dozen cities across North Carolina have joined an anti-global warming campaign led by the nation's mayors.By signing the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, the communities pledged to work toward cutting emissions of greenhouse gases to pre-1990 levels. Many scientists believe the gases hasten potentially harmful climate changes.Governments in Asheville, Durham, Wilmington and Winston-Salem are among the larger cities that have signed the initiative....

By Richard Craver, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Dec. 1--Lynn Beasley, the president of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and the architect of the controversial Joe Camel marketing campaign, said yesterday that she plans to retire Jan. 1. Beasley, 49, is the highest-ranking official left from the RJR team that bought Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. in 2004 to create Reynolds American Inc. She will be replaced by Daniel Delen, 41, who has been the president of British American Tobacco Ltd. in...