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The 14th Street Elementary School Alumni Planning Meeting: 6 p.m. today 14th Street Recreation Center, 2020 E. 14th St. Anyone who attended 14th Street School is invited to help plan the reunion. Alfred Harvey, 336-414-9241.

Grocery chain Sprouts Farmers Market has signed a lease for a space at Westridge Square.

A road rage incident that started Wednesday in the 600 block of South Stratford Road escalated when a driver fired a gunshot into the vehicle of another driver, authorities said.

T.J. Sigler’s inaugural run on NBC’s competition series “American Ninja Warrior” came up short, but he still describes it as “one of the coolest experiences of my life.”

The state Senate gave preliminary approval Wednesday to legislation that could give some North Carolinians access to a cheaper, skimpier and unregulated health-insurance option.

A state Senate bill has reached the House floor that would attempt to clarify the protocols of how a behavioral health involuntary commitment and transfers are handled by law enforcement personnel and health-care providers.

About 40 demonstrators will protest today in downtown Winston-Salem against the Trump administration’s immigration policies they believe are hurting immigrant children and their families, an organizer said Wednesday.

For years, law enforcement has tried to get people to lock the doors of their homes and cars, as well as secure anything of value so it won’t be stolen. It eliminates easy targets and cuts down on crime.

Kalvin Michael Smith, who maintains he was wrongfully convicted of a 1995 brutal assault on a woman, is appealing his conviction on charges that he punched and kicked his girlfriend earlier this year.

Contractors will again close Business 40 near the Peters Creek Parkway intersection this weekend as they finish installing some overhead beams for a new bridge at the site, state highway officials said.