Duke Energy reporting just over 4,ooo power outages in the Piedmont this morning. As of 8:30am the largest number of power outages reported in Forsyth County with 3,387. Wilkes County (488). Davidson County (242).
Power outage information: http://www.duke-energy.com/news/outage-information.asp
A special election set today for residents in Elkin to determine whether liquor by-the-drink sales can occur in the city. A similar measure was voted down in 2000. Elkin already has beer and wine sales, along with an ABC store. (WXII / journalnow.com)
A new plan to combat the overcrowding issue in Davie County would move ninth-graders out of school at Davie County. The proposal would send kindergarten to sixth-grade students to elementary schools…place Ninth-graders in the middle or junior high with seventh- and eighth-graders. The High School will be reduced to grades 10, 11 and 12. The county currently has two middle schools. A third is scheduled to open this year. Voters last month rejected a $37 million dollar school bond. School officials in Davie County are scheduled to vote on the proposal next month. (WXII)
Some of the families of the 32 people killed on Virginia Tech's campus are demanding representation by way of a Governor’s panel studying the mass shooting on the VT campus on April 16. The 13 families are also questioning the status of a memorial fund that has generated millions of dollars. (CNN)
The 7 astronauts on board the space shuttle Atlantis will spend a few extra days in space ( from 11 to 13 days ) to fix a thermal blanket that peeled back during last Friday’s launch. Atlantis is currently docked to the International Space Station. (CNN)
A new study saying that male US vets are twice as likely as non-vets to die by suicide. The researchers followed more than 300,000 men for 12 years.
At biggest risk: college-educated white males and those with activity limitations
The risk of suicide among male U.S. veterans is double that of the general population. The study, which was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. (CNN)
Nearly 140 old bombs have been excavated from a Virginia golf course built over a former bombing range. The job was done quietly last summer at Langley Air Force Base near Hampton, Virginia…and was just disclosed last week. The Air Force says golfers were never in danger because no bombs were near the surface.
The property (now a golf course) was used for bombing practice from 1917 to 1937. It became a landfill before it was converted into two 18-hole golf courses. The bombs were uncovered when a contractor was hired to fix a drainage problem after Hurricane Isabel in 2003. The course might reopen this summer. A neighboring course might also have bombs under it, but the Air Force figures they're buried too deep to be dangerous. That course remains open. (CNN)
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