Forsyth County

The nonprofit Moji Coffee Shop and More hosted its first-ever career fair for people with disabilities at Forsyth Technical Community College.

U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning, a North Carolina Democrat, was injured in a car accident Thursday in her district and was treated at a hospital, her office said. The second-term congresswoman was traveling in Greensboro in a car driven by a staff member when the accident occurred between 9 and 9:30 a.m., according to a news release and a spokesperson.

The state Senate on Tuesday approved a ban on hormone therapy, puberty blockers and surgeries that is more stringent than what the House recently passed.

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Walker is expected to announce his plans to enter next year's North Carolina governor's race at an event later this month, according to a spokesperson for a political consulting firm that is advising him.

A high school student visiting a North Carolina community college shot himself in the hand, sparking an hourslong lockdown on campus on Thursday, police said.

Winston-Salem Police responded to reports of shots fired at the Strickland Center at Forsyth Technical Community College this morning. Police say the shooting was reported at 10:10 a.m. and that officers are on the scene and assisting. The department later confirmed that there is no active shooter on the campus of Forsyth Tech.

A former nurse at a North Carolina hospital has been charged in the deaths of two patients after officials said he injected them with lethal doses of insulin.

A North Carolina environmental agency has approved a plan to test the soil and groundwater for contamination at the site of a massive fertilizer-plant fire in January.

In late January, a fire broke out at a fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem that led to the evacuation of thousands of residents.

Charges were also filed against Michelle Heughins, who worked as a nurse for Wellpath, the jail’s former health care provider. She is the sole defendant to be indicted by the grand jury in this case.