Chanel R. Davis

Patricia Norris was born to serve. Since she was younger, she knew she would serve her community. What she didn’t know was that she would have so much fun doing it.

Solomon V. Gore is finally home. Not a place that’s he’s sharing with someone else or a place that requires him to do maintenance work to live there, but his own home.

The Winston-Salem Police Department’s Professional Standards Division has been busy investigating an officer’s behavior that was videotaped in February and released, last week, during Sunshine Week, a movement that promotes transparency and open government.

In these days, in which everything is digital, it should be no surprise that a person’s first instinct when witnessing something is to record it.

Winston-Salem State University’s K. R. Williams Auditorium was filled with hundreds of people who were waiting to hear what the 82-year-old Richard Claxton “Dick” Gregory had to say about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Earline Parmon announced Wednesday, Jan. 21 that she would give up her N.C. Senate seat. She said Wednesday night that she will join U.S. Rep. Alma Adams as her director of outreach and the resignation is effective Wednesday, Jan. 28.

The Forsyth County Democratic Party will pick the person who will complete the term of Sen. Earline Parmon – who was expected to proffer her resignation yesterday – on Thursday, Jan. 29 at 6:30 p.m. at Kennedy High School, 890 E. 11th St.

Dr. Elwood Robinson had begun his duties as chancellor of Winston-Salem State University even before his official Jan. 1 start date.

Alexis Fegan takes two chemotherapy pills every morning before she goes to school; She goes for radiation treatment afterward. In the 17-year-old’s war against cancer, the drugs are her arsenal, but her armor is her indomitable spirit. Alexis doesn’t mope. She is not lachrymose.

North Carolinians won’t decide if they want to keep the governor they have or go with someone else until fall 2016. But Democrat Ken Spaulding is already on the campaign trail;

A 54-year-old disabled man unable to pay his more than $3,000 water bill may soon be without service, while the city and his landlord point fingers at each other.

Messa Hunder was looking forward to seeing Thelma Allen next month. The sisters haven’t been face-to-face since 1994. But their reunion is on hold for the time being. Hunder, a native Liberian, says the Ebola outbreak in the West African country has made it difficult for her to secure a flight home.