Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Sunny skies…High 82
Mortgage rates on 30-year loans hitting another record low for the second straight week. Freddie Mac reported rates for 30-year fixed loans dropped to 4.58%. The average 15-year rate fell to a record 4.04%. Even with record-low rates, U.S. home sales continue to fall. In the Triad, home sales have been improving in recent months in Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem. http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2010/06/28/daily51.html
Now that Hurricane Alex has lost nearly all of its punch, crews along the Gulf states are hoping that they can get back to cleaning up the massive oil spill sometime this weekend. The dangerous storm had created choppy seas in the Gulf of Mexico along the Louisiana coast, causing hundreds of oil skimmers to be docked. (the Weather Channel)
Airline carriers at Piedmont Triad International Airport have added five new flights. Allegiant Air has added a new flight to Orlando, while US Airways ramped up with new flights to Charlotte and Reagan National Airport outside of Washington DC. Delta has added two new flights to Atlanta and Cincinnati. Passenger traffic at PTI fell 11% in May compared to a year ago.
www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2010/06/28/daily48.html
Time Warner Cable has launched a new service called VoiceZone to allow customers in the Carolinas to control and monitor their digital home phone service from any Internet-connected computer. Customers can change call settings, set up caller ID, access voice mail, block unwanted calls and set distinctive rings. www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2010/06/28/daily46.html
An employee at a local church is accused of embezzling a large sum of money. Kathy Sechriest has been charged with embezzling $186,000 dollars from Zion United Church of Christ in Thomasville. Sechreist, who worked as a secretary at the church, is believed to have embezzled the money over the past five years. www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-embezzling-church-100701,0,768171.story
A collision between several vehicles including a Gospel singer’s tour bus and a tractor trailer had all the northbound lanes of I-85 shut down just over the Gaston County line yesterday, sending 10 people to the hospital. The bus belongs to Christian singers Mike and Kelly Bowling. Southern Gospel singer Terah Crabb was also on the bus. Crabb broke her arm but will be okay. Two people (including Mike) were airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. Daniel with Joy FM will join us at 9:20 this morning with an update.
www.witn.com/news/headlines/97651619.html?ref=619
Local eating establishment, Bell Brothers in Ogburn Station will close its doors for good this Sunday, July 4. The store's owner saying that the restaurant has simply fallen on hard times. Bell Brothers has been in Winston-Salem for more than 50 years. www.wxii12.com/money/24116893/detail.html
The month of June was one of the warmest on record. The National Weather Service reporting, last month, that the temperature at PTI (the airport in Greensboro) reached an average of 79.8 degrees, higher than the 79 degrees set back in June 1952. Five high-temperature records were either tied or broken in Greensboro. And 17 days reached 90 degrees or higher.
NASCAR: Sprint Cup Racing at Daytona on Saturday (Coke Zero 400)
BTW: Dale Earnhardt Jr. will make tonight’s Nationwide Series race his last appearance driving the No. 3 car. Earnhardt's Chevrolet will carry the No. 3 and a blue-and-yellow retro Wrangler paint scheme to honor his father's induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Dale Earnhardt died in an accident on the last lap of Daytona 500 back in 2001.
NASCAR Hall of Fame: Five new names make the list of 25 nominees. Newest: T. Wayne Robertson, Dale Inman and Fred Lorenzen
Minor League Baseball: The Winston-Salem Dash fall to the Potomac Nationals 5 – 2 last night.
The Dash at home tonight. Fireworks after the game. http://www.wsdash.com/
FYI: Greensboro Grasshoppers at home Sunday and Monday
