Winston-Salem Journal

Andy Lubahn's cleats stand out in a crowd. Full Story »

Roy Highfill loves the smell of a fresh Fraser fir tree."The fragrance is wonderful," Highfill said yesterday. "No need for candles. All you have to do is put up one of those trees." Full Story »

NFL Update Full Story »

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Prep-Basketball Update Full Story »

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Five of the nation's largest publishers of newspapers and magazines plan to challenge Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle electronic-book reader with their own digital format that would display in color and work on a variety of devices. Full Story »

The supersized recession that was a boon for business last year caught up further with McDonald's Corp. in November, as high unemployment ate into sales. Full Story »

GMAC Financial Services is eliminating about half of its 90-person staff in its consumer-lending sales center in Charlotte as part of cutting costs in its mortgage business. Full Story »

A federal agency's investigation of Old Vineyard Youth Services is focused on charges of inaction by nursing staff toward a patient having a medical emergency in September . Full Story »

Gov. Bev Perdue established a logistics task force yesterday that will make recommendations on how to ensure that people and goods are able to move efficiently across North Carolina. Full Story »

A Martin County sheriff's deputy responding to a 911 call was shot to death yesterday morning by an armed suspect who was also killed when he refused to obey instructions from law officers. Full Story »

Investors sought safety yesterday as concerns about spiraling debt loads and disappointing corporate reports tarnished hopes for an economic recovery. Full Story »

Interpublic Group said yesterday that its Mullen division has been named agency of record for the U.S. and Canada markets for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. Full Story »

The Yankees, Tigers and Diamondbacks neared agreement yesterday on a three-team trade that would send Curtis Granderson, an All-Star center fielder, from Detroit to New York, a person familiar with the negotiations said. Full Story »

Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine will participate in a four-year, $2.8 million grant to study the fragility of stored transfusion blood. Full Story »

The National Weather Service in Blacksburg, Va., issued a winter-weather advisory last night for sleet and freezing rain in Northwest North Carolina through at least 6 a.m. today. Full Story »

A Forsyth County man convicted of sex offenses involving a 5-year-old girl may not have to wear a satellite-monitoring device for the rest of his life, as was ordered when he was convicted. Full Story »

Targacept Inc. said in a regulatory filing yesterday that its board of directors has authorized the awarding of $460,000 in performance bonuses for 2009 to seven executives. Full Story »

District Attorney Jim O'Neill has agreed to allow four pending first-degree murder cases to be delayed until after a study on the death penalty and race is completed next summer. Full Story »

North Carolina regulators have signed off on a plan in which Duke Energy Corp.'s 1.8 million electric customers in the state will see their bills go up next month and rise 7 percent on average over the next two years -- nearly half the increase originally sought by the utility. Full Story »

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Google unveiled yesterday a new approach to presenting news online by topic, developed with The New York Times and The Washington Post, and said that if the experiment is successful, it will be made available to all publishers. Full Story »