Best chance of Severe Weather: Late this afternoon through midnight tonight
Mini Super Tuesday? Primaries and caucuses in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont. Lots of delegates at stake at the end of the day.
Another record high for oil…Oil prices marching past $103 dollars a barrel today.
Classes back in session this morning at Appalachian State University in Boone after the campus was put in lockdown mode on Monday. Evening classes were cancelled yesterday afternoon after a man (with a gun) was reportedly seen running toward the campus after an attempted apartment break-in. www.journalnow.com http://www.wxii12.com/news/15481489/detail.html
ASU Website: www.appstate.edu/
ASU Emergency site: www.emergency.appstate.edu/
Parents and teens listen up: car wrecks are the leading cause of death for ‘tweens’ and teenagers. A new study saying that the 3 biggest risk factors contributing to car wreck deaths include: riding unbuckled with new teenage drivers on high speed roads.
The study appears in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Police in Seattle suspect an environmental terrorist group in torching five luxury homes in northeast Seattle yesterday morning. Agents with the FBI are treating the fires as a potential act of domestic terrorism.A message signed by the Earth Liberation Front, was left at the scene.
The furnished, but unoccupied houses that were burned were valued at close to $2 million dollars each. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57897
Locally, high winds helped spread a fire that destroyed a home in western Forsyth County outside of Lewisville around noon yesterday. Firefighters also had to battle several brush fires nearby.
Students in Davie County will pay more for their school pizza and chicken nuggets. The Davie County Board of Education approved raising the price of school lunches by 25 cents.
Elementary school lunches…$1.75 to $2.00
Middle and High School lunches: $2.00 to $2.25
Mega Meal Lunches: $2.50 to $3.00
Two locations if you want to find out more about the proposed repairs to Business 40 through downtown Winston-Salem.
-Goler and Crystal Towers area (6 to 8pm) at the WS Urban League
-Country Club and Buena Vista (6 to 8pm) Reynolds HS cafeteria
http://www.journalnow.com/
www.business40nc.com/
www.ncdot.org/projects/business40/#NewsUpdates
The robber of a convenience store in Des Moines, Iowa left behind a ‘taxing’ clue…a W-2 form. A man robbed a Git-N-Go store in Des Moines last Friday after telling a clerk he had a gun. He left the store with about $115 in cash…but had shed his hat and jacket during the robbery. When police responded, they found the W-2 tax form in his coat pocket. Officers checked the name on the form and found a listing for a 25-year-old with a suspended driver's license who is on probation for theft. The man's description matched information provided by the clerk.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080301/D8V4CCI80.html
SPORTS:
Final week of men’s ACC basketball regular season:
Tonight: Wake at Virginia Tech…FSU at Carolina
Southern Conference (in North Charleston, SC)
Women’s ACC Tournament (Greensboro)
Men’s ACC Tournament (Charlotte)
Governor Easley has declared this week as Severe Weather Awareness Week in North Carolina. There will be a statewide tornado drill for Public Schools and Government buildings on Wednesday morning. (March 5). http://www.readync.org/.
Best chance of Severe Weather: Late this afternoon through midnight tonight
Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast:
Today: Windy with scattered showers this morning.
Thunderstorms possible this afternoon into tonight.
Some storms could be severe…High 66
Tonight: Clearing skies after midnight…Low 45
Wednesday: Sunny skies…High 60
