Tyco Electronics will reduce its workforce by 20% worldwide. Officials are confirming that there will be layoffs at all four of its Triad plants through September. (http://www.journalnow.com/)
How the cookie crumbles to help others (a feature on Mrs Hanes’ Moravian Cookies)
Check out the video: http://www.wxii12.com/video/18855635/index.html
www.hanescookies.com/hanes_cs/default.asp
The search is on for a new city manager in Greensboro after the Greensboro City Council fired City Manager Mitchell Johnson earlier in the week. Johnson will continue to work for the city until July 15, according to an agreement reached by the council.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/03/03/article/city_manager_will_face_debate_about_his_job_tonight
One fatality and three others hurt yesterday after a head-on collision in Mount Airy. Highway Patrol troopers saying that Laura Seal collided with a pickup truck yesterday afternoon on Quaker Road in the Flat Rock community of Mount Airy. Seal was pronounced dead at the scene, and her 3-year-old son, Levi, was airlifted to Baptist Medical Center. The firefighters were in route to block the road for a funeral procession. www.wxii12.com/news/18854879/detail.html
THE CALIFORNIA STATE SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR ARGUMENTS TODAY ON A VOTER-APPROVED BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. State Supreme Court justices must decide if Proposition 8 is simply an amendment to the state constitution or if it is a revision of it. 'Proposition 8' won approval by California voters last November defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Former first lady Barbara Bush is recovering after open heart surgery to replace her aortic valve yesterday. The 83 year old former first lady was up and talking last night just hours after undergoing the procedure at Methodist Hospital in Houston.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090305/D96NQGHG1.html
He’s back in: Anoop Desai has one more chance to make the finals of "American Idol." The UNC graduate will compete in a wild card round tonight when the last three of 12 finalists will be selected. http://www.americanidol.com/
UPDATE: Actor / comedian Robin Williams is being treated at a Miami hospital with heart related issues. According to The Miami Herald, doctors evaluating Williams (who is 57 years old) and recommended a week of rest.
Buy American…Mrs Hanes’ Moravian Cookies
www.hanescookies.com/hanes_cs/default.asp
A new ‘pirate’ exhibit opens this Friday at the N.C. Museum of History. "Knights of the Black Flag," traces the history of pirates from ancient Egypt and Greece to Blackbeard, who terrorized our state’s coast to today's pirates in Somalia. The exhibit will run through July.
http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/
http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/knights/index.html
VOTE now for ‘Artist of the Year’ and ‘New Artist of the Year’. The 40th annual GMA Dove Awards happens April 23rd. http://www.wbfj.fm/
Sports: ACC Basketball www.theacc.com/sports/m-baskbl/acc-m-baskbl-body.html
Last Night: UNC over Virginia Tech…86 – 78 NC State @ Boston College…74 - 69
FYI: The Men’s ACC Tournament next week (March 12-15) at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Ga.
Women’s ACC Tournament starts today in Greensboro
Southern Conference Tournament (Chattanooga, Tennessee)...Women’s first round today and Men’s First round on Friday
ESPN reporting that the Dallas Cowboys will cut (TO)Terrell Owens
Students in Alamance-Burlington schools will have to go to school this Saturday to make up for Monday’s snow day. Their last day of classes is June 10.
Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Today: Sunny…High 55
The Weekend: Mostly sunny…Highs in the 70’s
FYI: ‘Spring Forward’ 1 hour late Saturday night for Daylight Saving Time
Forecast for (Maseru) Lesotho, South Africa: Sunny…High 77
