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Woman celebrates 107th birthday in Archdale

ARCHDALE, N.C. (WGHP) — A woman in Archdale celebrated her 107th birthday on Friday. Beulah Paschal is a resident at Westwood Health and Rehabilitation. Her family and friends gathered to mark her big day with gifts, sweets and fun. Her daughter Bette Vines told FOX8 her family just has good genes. “It’s just wonderful
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Burlington City Council set to revisit ban on backyard chickens

Burlington resident Frank Poppa would sing to one of his six hens, and she would sing back to him. Not only did his hens provide fresh eggs to the Poppa family of five, but he said they also felt like family. So in 2023, when the police showed up at...
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NCDOA holds series of forum for minority small business owners after elimination of HUB...

In the new state budget, North Carolina lawmakers eliminated the Office for Historically Underutilized Businesses, or the HUB office. The HUB office was created in 1999 to help underrepresented businesses owned by women, people of color, and veterans to compete for state contracts. The HUB Office worked closely with mo
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McLeansville man charged with indecent liberties with a child

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A McLeansville man was charged with felony indecent liberties with a child in Greensboro on Thursday. Aeddrion Taichan’d Cooper, 25, was charged with felony indecent liberties with a child from an incident that allegedly occurred on Sept. 17, according to the Greensboro Police Department. The
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North Carolina Drops “Barrier” Teacher Entrance Exam

WUNC - This fall, colleges of education across North Carolina are welcoming back students who had previously left their programs solely because they struggled to pass a standardized entrance exam. At UNC-Greensboro's School of Education, about 35 students returned. "We saw a large number of music ed students, dance ed.
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Ex-Randolph County deputy accused of raping intoxicated woman

GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — A man who was charged with a sex crime in Guilford County served as a Triad-area sheriff’s deputy. Brandon Yair Zagada Zuniga, 30, of Seagrove, was charged with second-degree forcible rape on Thursday in Guilford County. According to the warrant, he assaulted the victim while she was “phy
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Brain Eating Amoeba Kills A 17-Year-Old After He Splashed Water On His Face At...

Investigators have traced the death of 17-year-old Moises Ponce Mendoza of Burlington, North Carolina to a decorative outdoor water feature at El Futuro, a bilingual community mental health nonprofit in Durham County. Mendoza splashed water on his face at the feature on August 13. Symptoms appeared August 21. He was...
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Best Mexican food? 2 NC restaurants just cracked Yelp’s Top 100 list

Two North Carolina restaurants were named among the nation’s best spots for Mexican food — and one of them might surprise you. Jon G’s Barbecue in Peachland and Bagner & Alexa’s Breakfast and Lunch in Greensboro were the state’s only eateries to rank on Yelp’s Top 100 list of must-try Mexican restaurants. They placed 6
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Risk of severe weather on Friday in the Triad

PIEDMONT TRIAD, N.C. (WGHP) — There is a Level 1/Marginal Risk of severe weather today for most of the FOX8 viewing area. The primary threat will be from damaging winds. It’s quite a different morning across the Piedmont with temperatures in the lower-70s and noticeably higher humidity. A cold front is forecast to drop
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Alamance News honored with top state writing, reporting awards

The Alamance News was honored Thursday night with some of the state press associa-tion’s top writing and reporting awards for news coverage during 2025. At the annual convention held in Cary last week, the North Carolina Press Association gave its prestigious public service award for the news-paper’s comprehensive cove

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