A local aircraft maintenance services and sales company is expanding. Piedmont Aviation Component Services LLC is relocating its sister company, Limco, to its Kernersville location bringing 120 new jobs to Forsyth County. The average pay will be around $44,000 dollars a year, not including benefits. http://www.wxii12.com/money/18672451/detail.html
Auto insurance companies in North Carolina are asking for a 1.4% rate increase. The annual request comes despite the North Carolina Rate Bureau's appeal of a state order in 2008 to decrease auto insurance rates by 16.1%.
A NEW ‘lead’ law taking effect today could force retailers such as Thrift Stores to toss toys, children's clothes and books. New federal restrictions on lead and other harmful substances take effect today. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. Details: www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/08/thrift.stores.lead/index.html?iref=mpstoryviewPresident
Obama making his case last night before the American people for the $800 billion dollar (plus) Stimulus Package. Obama saying that the package which still being debated in Congress contains both tax cuts and measures to create jobs. The president also saying that ‘government alone should not be expected to create jobs or economic growth.’
FBI agents raiding a Georgia peanut butter plant yesterday due to an ongoing investigation into tainted peanut butter that is the source of a nationwide salmonella outbreak. The latest outbreak has made nearly 600 people sick (including eight deaths) in 43 states. http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/10/peanut.butter.raid/index.html
The death toll from wildfires in southeastern Australia has climbed to 181. The latest wildfires have consumed hundreds-of-thousands of acres and more than 900 homes. Arson is suspected in some of the fires.
A western Michigan Man has been reunited with his class ring after a 40 year absence. A stranger actually returned Richard Parker’s missing class ring last week. Parker graduated High School in 1966. He soon married and boxed up the class ring and forgot about it.
Reda more: http://www.mlive.com/muskegon
FBI agents raiding a Georgia peanut butter plant yesterday due to an ongoing investigation into tainted peanut butter that is the source of a nationwide salmonella outbreak. The latest outbreak has made nearly 600 people sick (including eight deaths) in 43 states. http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/10/peanut.butter.raid/index.html
The death toll from wildfires in southeastern Australia has climbed to 181. The latest wildfires have consumed hundreds-of-thousands of acres and more than 900 homes. Arson is suspected in some of the fires.
A western Michigan Man has been reunited with his class ring after a 40 year absence. A stranger actually returned Richard Parker’s missing class ring last week. Parker graduated High School in 1966. He soon married and boxed up the class ring and forgot about it.
Reda more: http://www.mlive.com/muskegon
Toby Mac saying that it was an ‘honor’ to win his first Grammy as a solo artist. TobyMac won four Grammy Awards as a member of dcTalk. Toby’s "Alive and Transported" winning for Best Rar/Rock Gospel Album. TobyMac was on the road with the WinterJam Tour when the Grammy Awards were handed out on Sunday.
ACC Basketball: Last night (#8) Lady Tarheels beat (#4) Duke…75 - 60
(Men) BIG game on Wednesday: Carolina at Duke 9pm
www.theacc.com/sports/m-baskbl/acc-m-baskbl-body.html
Update: New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs while he was with the Texas Rangers back in 2003
And baby makes 4: A son born to Tiger Woods and wife Elin on Sunday. Charlie Axel Woods is the second child for the couple; their daughter Sam was born in 2007. www.tigerwoods.com
