7.01.2011

Friday, July 01, 2011

Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Sunny skies through the weekend. HOT...Highs in the low to mid 90s. An isolated shower or thunderstorm Sunday and Monday.


Wal-Mart is cutting gas prices by 10 cents a gallon (at participating Wal-Mart fuel stations) over the next three months. To get the gas and diesel fuel discount, you have to use a re-loadable Wal-mart gift card or a Walmart credit card. The ‘roll back’ on gas prices ends on September 30th. For list of participating Wal-Mart fuel stations go to www.walmartstores.com/gasrollback

The average price for regular unleaded in the Triad is $3.46 a gallon
www.gasbuddy.com/Gas_Prices/North_Carolina/index.aspx

Children who live in homes with visible mold problems have a heightened risk of suffering from asthma and allergies, a new research review finds. While the findings don’t prove that mold is the culprit lab research has suggested that exposure to mold and airborne mold spores can create inflammation in the airways, thus stressing the importance again of not only getting rid of visible mold, but also preventing it in the first place.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/06/10/moldy-home-tied-to-kids-asthma-allergies/

The driver of a truck that struck Donald Daniels, the Winston-Salem Journal paper seller that was 'run over' at the Stratford Road exit ramp off Silas Creek Parkway, has been cited in connection with the incident. Carlton Antonio Hight is charged with failure to decrease speed to avoid colliding with a person and failure to maintain lane control while driving on a street with clearly marked lanes.   Daniels spent some time at the hospital, but was released last week.
http://www.wxii12.com/news/28410621/detail.html

SAD NEWS OUT OF ASHEBORO -- Anticipation over the first gorilla birth at the North Carolina Zoo in 22 years turned to sadness yesterday morning as zoo keepers discovered that a pregnant gorilla had delivered a stillborn baby. The baby gorilla expected to be born sometime between July 23 and Aug. 27 had delivered overnight. curator Ken Reininger. said it's not uncommon for first-time gorilla mothers to deliver stillborn babies.
http://www.wxii12.com/news/28411079/detail.html