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President Obama: 'I'm a Christian by choice.' Taking a direct question from a voter about his Christian faith, President Obama yesterday explained how he came to embrace Christianity. View the segment that aired last night on the NBC Evening News with Brian Williams: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/39408690#39408690
Greensboro-based TIMCO Aviation Services will bring 500 new jobs to northern Davidson County over the next seven years. Timco’s new aircraft seat manufacturing facility will move into the old Tyco building on Highway 109 in Wallburg. http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2010/09/27/daily11.html
Michael Craver, the 21-year-old accused of throwing a paving stone through a car window that resulted in the death of 17-year-old Shelby Chisom will not face the death penalty. A tentative trial date is set for December. www.wxii12.com/news/25196345/detail.html
Federal agents have seized Chinqua-Penn Plantation in Rockingham County. According to the Winston-Salem Journal, the plantation's owner Calvin Phelps is currently involved in a bankruptcy lawsuit. A bankruptcy examiner claims Phelps made a fraudulent asset transfer of $8 million dollars to purchase the lavish plantation, two corporate jets and a Maserati.
www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-plantation-100928,0,3187064.story
Former President Jimmy Carter is expected to resume his book tour later today after spending the night in a hospital in Cleveland. Carter became ill on a flight from Atlanta to Cleveland. Carter turns 86 on Friday.
www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/jimmy.carter.hospitalized/index.html?hpt=T2
Lewisville United Methodist Church will hold a funeral this afternoon for the abandoned baby found outside a Winston-Salem Planned Parenthood Clinic earlier this month. Hayworth-Miller Funeral Home will cover the costs of the service. The funeral will be held this afternoon at 4 p.m. Medical examiners are still not sure how the baby died. (Fox8)
SPORTS
MLB: Cincinnati Reds capturing the National League Central title last night with a 3 - 2 win over the Houston Astros. The Reds getting their first title since 1995. On Monday, the Philadelphia Phillies clinching the Eastern Division title with a win over the Washington Nationals…8 – 0.
Speaking of baseball: Part two of the latest Ken Burns baseball special “The Tenth Inning” on PBS tonight at 8pm. THE TENTH INNING is a two-part, four-hour documentary film directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. A new chapter in Burns's landmark 1994 series, Baseball: The Tenth Inning tells the tumultuous story of the national pastime from the 1990s to the present day. www.pbs.org/baseball-the-tenth-inning/
