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The 1,800 Wake Forest University graduates were told on Monday to own their power, and embrace the choices, chances and changes that lie ahead of them.

The family of a Winston-Salem man who was shot to death outside a strip club in 2016 was awarded more than $4 million in damages in a civil lawsuit.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is paying $159,000 to cover the debt from unpaid student lunches in five counties, Forsyth among them.

Lt. Raymond Laird, who served with the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office for 15 years, died Friday of cancer.

The Forsyth County Board of Elections will conduct its recount of the Republican primary for District 2 on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education Wednesday morning starting at 9 a.m.

The owners of Melt are closing the flagship restaurant and focusing on its sister location.

Eleven census tracts in Forsyth County have been approved as opportunity zones by the U.S. Treasury.

MOUNT AIRY — A Winston-Salem teacher and former mayor of Mount Airy says she's running for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in 2020.

A Winston-Salem woman died Friday after she was injured in a head-on collision May 9 on Silas Creek Parkway near Yorkshire Road, authorities said Monday.

CHAPEL HILL — Mildred Council, the Chapel Hill culinary matriarch widely known as Mama Dip, has died, according to her family.