Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Mostly cloudy and cooler…High 75
Best chance of rain…tonight into Thursday morning
One by one they emerge. Chilean rescuers continue to pull out those 33 trapped miners. The first miner (Florencio Avalos) was brought to the surface shortly after midnight last night. One of the rescued miners proclaimed, "I was with God and I was with the devil. They fought and God won." The miners have been trapped about a mile underground since August 5th. Up-to-the-minute coverage from CNN: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/13/workers-begin-to-rescue-trapped-chilean-miners/?hpt=T1&iref=BN1
Investigators now believe that someone killed Zahra Clare Baker, the 10-year-old from Hickory who was reported missing over the weekend. During a press conference on Tuesday, Hickory Police chief Tom Adkins stating that authorities have transitioned from a missing person to a homicide investigation. Anyone with information in the case is asked to call Hickory police at 828-328-5551. (NCNN)
The ACLU it's fighting for privacy and free speech rights in a lawsuit pitting North Carolina tax collectors against Amazon.com. Lawyers for the ACLU are in federal court in Seattle today…making the case that the North Carolina Department of Revenue's effort to learn what customers bought from Amazon would violate individual’s rights. The hearing comes in a lawsuit filed by Amazon to stop the tax agency from collecting information about buyers.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2010/10/13/article/aclu_to_argue_for_amazon_customers_in_nc_tax_case
Construction is seven years away, still the Department of Transportation has scheduled a series of meetings this week to get your feedback and ideas on what Business 40 through downtown Winston-Salem should look like when it’s finished. There are two more meetings…
Tonight’s meeting (Oct. 13) will be from 5 to 8pm at the Reynolds High School Cafeteria on North Hawthorn Road. The final meeting will be on Thursday (Oct. 14) from 11am-2pm at the Millennium Center Ballroom on 5th Street in downtown Winston-Salem.
The State Supreme Court ruling on Friday that school administrators are NOT required to accommodate all ‘suspended students’. A state law requires local school boards to establish at least one alternative learning program for students serving long-term suspensions.
www.wxii12.com/education/25333162/detail.html
Major League Baseball: Division Play-offs
Last night: The Texas Rangers over the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 5 (5 -1).
American League Championship series: (Game one): The Texas Rangers will play the New York Yankees Friday night
National League Championship Series (Game one): San Francisco Giants vs Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday night. The World Series starts on October 27…
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