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A man who claimed innocence in connection with a 1995 brutal assault in Winston-Salem has died. Kalvin Michael Smith was at the center of a racially divisive case that was one of the region’s most prominent allegations of wrongful conviction. 

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is teaming up with Guilford County Schools by covering tuition for future math and science teachers. 

Former U.S. Sen. Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina, a onetime conservative Democrat who switched late in his career to the Republicans and then got elected to Congress, died Thursday. He was 95.

The legendary 18th century pioneer and frontiersman Daniel Boone played a prominent role in the settlement of North Carolina, and he spent decades exploring here in the Pie

Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines and the city council will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony this Saturday to celebrate the completion of Bethania Freedman's Park.

There are about 2300 students in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools who still need their state-required immunizations. 

Two shootings three decades apart at the University of North Carolina show how much has changed. Some alumni who remember a deadly shooting in 1995 now have children enrolled at their alma mater in Chapel Hill, where an associate professor was shot to death Aug. 28. One graduate who covered the earlier shooting for the school newspaper is now a journalism professor who kept his students safe during last month's lockdown. In some ways, the era of campus shootings has come full circle though there have been vast changes in the way information spreads.

The state Senate voted Wednesday to remove nearly a thousand acres from the Guilford County town of Summerfield.

A local nonprofit group has announced a rehabilitation project that will help maintain low-cost housing in Greensboro.