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BURLINGTON, N.C. (WGHP) — A Burlington man got an unexpected paycheck on Tuesday. Silvestre Luna Luna was shocked to learn he won a $110,804 jackpot on a digital instant game on Aug. 7. “I was so surprised,” he said. Luna won his big prize on a $10 play in the Wheel of Bonuses game. The […]

Burlington city council has tapped attorney Christina Benson for one of the city’s two seats on the appointed board that oversees the state-owned liquor stores in most of Alamance County. The council appointed Benson on Tuesday to take over a post that fellow attorney Frank Longest had previously held...

Jay Avaiya and his wife, Shruti or "Sunny" technically live in Greensboro, but joke that they really just sleep there as they now spend most of their waking hours at the Quick Stop convenience store, gas station and grill located on North Carolina Highway 62 South at Oakview Loop Road.

High Point Police officers pulled a body from a creek near South Main Street and Greenview Terrace on Wednesday afternoon, launching a death investigation in a quiet southwest High Point neighborhood. Police have not released the identity of the person found, and they say no foul play is currently suspected in the deat

A pair of supposedly routine grant applications from Alamance County’s sheriff kicked up quite the kerfuffle when they came before the county’s board of commissioners at the end of a marathon meeting on Monday. The county’s governing board ultimately gave its unanimous nod to these two funding requests,...

HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — The High Point Police Department obtained a pair of juvenile petitions following a gunpoint robbery involving teens and THC vape pens. At around 8 p.m. on Monday, officers came to the 900 block of Mill Avenue after getting a report of a robbery involving a weapon. A 13-year-old victim told […]

The Iowa women’s soccer team travels to face No. 11 Wake Forest at 4 p.m. CT (Thursday) and UNC Greensboro 11 a.m. CT (Sunday). The University of Iowa women’s soccer team hits the road for the first time in 2026, traveling east for a pair of nonconference matchups. The Hawkeyes face No. 11 Wake Forest on Thursday at 4

A failed bid to bring “backyard chickens” to Burlington is about to get another turn in the rotisserie as the city’s elected leaders prepare to revisit this much talked-about pandemic era proposal. Burlington’s city council reached a consensus on Monday to proceed with this plan to allow...

Jamestown Park pro Marcy Newton finished second Tuesday in the 36-hole Carolinas PGA Women’s Professional Championship at Bulls Bay Golf Club near Charleston. The 48-year-old Newton, a former UNC standout, USGA Girls’ and Women’s Amateur champion and 13-year veteran of the LPGA Tour, shot rounds of 69 and 73 to finish

Four out of five votes is normally enough to get something done on a five-member board. When it comes to setting early voting sites in North Carolina, however, four out of five isn’t quite good enough. That’s why the North Carolina State Board of Elections will have the final...