Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Mix of sun and clouds…High 78
Good news about jobs coming to the Triad: American Express will build a $400 million data-services center in Guilford County. And ‘VitaCost’, an online health products retailer, will be opening a new facility in Davidson County, bringing over 200 new jobs to the area. (journalnow.com)
The prayer case in Forsyth County is moving forward. Attorneys for the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners have issued the first filings in the county's appeal, after a lower federal court judge ruled in January that the saying of sectarian prayers at the start of Forsyth County Board meetings is unconstitutional. The Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative Christian organization, is handling the appeal for the county. http://www.telladf.org/
http://www.news-record.com/content/2010/05/20/article/forsyth_files_appeal_in_meeting_prayer_case Learn more about the Alliance Defense Fund with attorney Michael Johnson…Sunday @ 5 on WBFJ.
A rally in support of ‘Choose Life’ license plates for North Carolina is set for this Tuesday in Raleigh. The ‘Why Not NC?’ Rally (sponsored by the ‘Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship’) will start at 11am this Tuesday, May 25 on the steps of the capital building in Raleigh. Why the rally…? 24 other states have already approved 'Choose Life' license plates. For eight years, this specific pro-life specialty plate has been stuck in committee and denied a vote by lawmakers in Raleigh while over 100 other specialty plates have been approved in NC. Each 'Choose Life' plate sold would generate $15.00 to assist 80 Pregnancy Care Centers across the state. http://www.ncchoose-life.org/ Bobbie Meyer - State Director of ‘Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship’ will be on Sunday @ 5 on WBFJ.
In order to shave roughly $4 million dollars from this year’s school budget, the Winston-Salem / Forsyth County ‘School Board of Education’ is looking at eliminating some 100 jobs. The 60 clerical cuts will likely be permanent …and some teachers could be assigned. The board has already ended foreign language classes in the third grade with proposed cuts in the fourth and fifth grades as well. (journalnow.com)
The state Department of Transportation has been given the green-light with plans to build the Northern Beltway around Winston-Salem. A judge has dismissed two lawsuits filed by the North Carolina Alliance for Transportation Reform Inc. and Friends of Forsyth against the DOT that sought to block the project. BTW: 600 homeowners will have to move as a result of the construction. (journalnow.com)
More Recall information regarding: The nearly one million GE coffee makers sold exclusively at Walmart being recalled. The model numbers involved are 169164 and 169165.
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/10238.html
Plus…the Miley Cyrus-brand necklaces and bracelets that Walmart is taking off shore shelves because of high levels of‘cadmium’. http://www.walmart.com/
SPORTS
NASCAR: Brian Vickers will not drive in this weekend's All-Star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Casey Mears will drive the No. 83 Red Bull Toyota. The team said Vickers continues to receive "ongoing testing and treatment" for his blood clots. http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2010/05/19/brian-vickers-out-for-all-star-race/
Armstrong Denies New Doping Accusations: With the cycling season kicking into high gear, the strongest doping allegations yet against Lance Armstrong surfaced Thursday in a barrage of detailed messages from Floyd Landis, the disgraced rider and former teammate who finally confessed to years of cheating himself. http://www.wxii12.com/sports/23616954/detail.html
