Cyber Monday…one of the biggest days to shop on line.
The holiday shopping season off to a good start nationwide.
A national research group that tracks sales saying that total sales on Friday were up 6% compared to the same day last year.
Wal-Mart actually posting sales numbers lower than their November expectations. (usaradionews)
Hundreds of parents and students from Eastern Guilford High met a church yesterday are demanding answers, several weeks after a fire destroyed their school.Students are back in class at two different campuses…Many want to use the Lucent Technologies building on Millstream Road until a new school is built which could take up to three years to build.Another option is finding land to create a modular high school, basically with a bunch of portable classrooms.The Guilford County School board is considering using the Lucent building, along with some other plans. The school board will discuss all these ideas at a meeting Tuesday night starting at 6:30pm. (http://wfmynews2.com/news/topstory_article.aspx?storyid=75683)
-This Friday, December 1 all passengers, including back seat riders, must wear a seatbelt. Back seat passengers could get warning tickets starting this Friday… $10 dollar tickets will be handed out beginning July 2007.
-Also…The state’s sales tax will decrease from 7% to 6.75%.
Dancing Penguins top out Bond (again). Happy Feet stays #1 at the Box Office over the Thanksgiving holiday. (CNN)
SPORTS:
Head football coach for NC State, Chuck Amato, has been fired after 7 years at the University. (WS JOURNAL)
The 20th-ranked Wake Forest Demon Deacons clinched the ACC's Atlantic Division on Saturday…with a 38-24 victory over the Maryland Terrapins. Wake will play Georgia Tech in the ACC title game this Saturday in Jacksonville. Wake has not won an ACC title since 1970. (AP / WXII)
Redskins 17-13 over the Carolina Panthers. The Panthers fall one game behind New Orleans for first place in the NFC South.
The annual lighting of the huge Moravian star on top of Baptist Hospital will be held at 5:45pm today.
This Friday…WBFJ will be in the Asheboro Christmas Parade
And…Mayor Allen Joines will flip the switch to the city’s Christmas Pole this Saturday at 6:30pm downtown Winston-Salem at Corpening Plaza.
Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast:
Today: Sunny and mild…High near 70
Tonight: Mostly clear…Low 40
Tuesday: Sunny and mild…High near 70
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