BURLINGTON, N.C.----Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings an industry leader in oncology testing, announced the commercial launch of an assay for detecting the presence of key tissue markers in prostate cancer, including the methylated version of the GST-Pi gene.
By Keren Rivas, Times-News, Burlington, N.C. May 11--After squeezing soccer games, work meetings and school functions into a given month, Melissa Drozdowski has very little time for herself. She and her fiance have five children ranging in age from 4 to 14 between them.
By Isaac Groves, Times-News, Burlington, N.C. May 8--GRAHAM -- The city would keep its 48-cent tax rate in a proposed 2008-09 budget, but water and sewer rates, and other fees, would increase. ... The total proposed budget would come to $18.6 million, a nearly $1.6...
Prosecutors allege the drug- trafficking organization that operated in Southwest Virginia, Northeast Tennessee and North Carolina was headed by members of a music production company called Kantstop Records. The investigation, which took over one and a half years,...
By Brie Handgraaf, Times-News, Burlington, N.C. Apr. 26--The risk of homicide in the first day of life is 10 times higher than any other time. ... That's why North Carolina and other states created a Safe Surrender law, so mothers could anonymously give up their infant...
Howard Worth "Buck" McCurdy, 89, formerly of Duke Drive, died Friday, April 25, 2008, at Thomasville Medical Center after declining health. ... A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the First United Methodist Church by the Rev. Carl Lindquist. Mr. McCurdy was...
It wasn't news, hardly, when another mill in the once textile-rich Piedmont announced in January it would fire 400 workers and ship jobs and equipment to Mexico. Former president Bill Clinton campaigns for his wife, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Hillsborough,...
Corey Turner was found in North Carolina and charged in the shooting of a Martinsville man.The second suspect in the shooting death of a Martinsville man was arrested Tuesday in North Carolina, officials said. Martinsville police spokesman Scott Coleman said Corey Demon Turner, 30, of...
BURLINGTON, N.C., April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MidCarolina Financial Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: MCFI) today reported record total assets of $489.9 million at March 31, 2008, an increase of $55.1 million, or 13%, when compared to the $434.8 million reported at...
GRAHAM, N.C. — A Canadian company is moving its operations to North Carolina because of the Canadian currency’s rising exchange rate against the U.S. dollar, the Burlington, N.C., Times-News reported on its Web site, www.thetimesnews.com. ... Spiro Laousis, owner of...






