Winston-Salem City Council decided in a 5-2 vote on Monday to authorize the sale of Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum to Wake Forest University, with the majority brushing aside a substitute motion to put the deal on hold and direct the city manager to explore other cost-saving measures through contracting out the management of the facility.

In an attempt to divert material from the landfill following the semester-end emptying of campus, UNCG hosts a sale of items discarded by students, most of which are items of clothing. The sale goes down in Cone Ballroom in Elliott University Center on June 1 from 9 a.

The Guilford County School Board approved a 5-cent increase in lunch prices at its May 1 meeting in response to the federal Healthy, Hunger-Free Act of 2010. Prices for all students — elementary, middle and high school — will rise from $2.50 to $2.55 at the beginning of the next school year.

I’m a big fan of public transit. It’s the bloodstream that sustains the pumping heart of a real city. Because a city is a place where people come together, where different activities coexist in a sometimes noisy symphony of mutual accommodation. Commerce, creativity and innovation take place when people can work, recreate and live in close proximity.

Yates is originally from the Chicago area, where the Latin Kings organization was founded in the 1940s. Cornell came to North Carolina from Brooklyn, NY, where he had been a member of the Latin Kings under the leadership of Antonio Fernandez, or King Tone, a social justice-minded leader who attempted to put the organization on a path to reform.

There are hot, strong feelings about the proposed Florida Street Extension near the nanotech campus in east Greensboro. The decision ultimately rests with the board of trustees of NC A&T University, which is being asked give up some land on its research farm to accommodate the new roadway.

Kicking off our week in the arts, the Elsewhere arts collaborative in Greensboro reopens on Wednesday with a tea and tour from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Visitors can explore the newly transformed StoryBank and Living Library space and hear about the 2013 season..

Anthony Bernard Mcteer, the father of a Glenn High School student who was caught with a firearm on campus, has been charged with failure to store a firearm to protect a minor. School administration investigated an allegation about students possibly having weapons on campus and ended up seizing a knife from 17-year-old DaCian M.

As long as unflattering attention — a high-profile hedge fund investor characterizes the company as a Ponzi scheme and the Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an inquiry — doesn’t cause Herbalife to implode, the company’s plans to...

Mayor BerniJOta Sims, at-large Councilman Britt Moore, Ward 1 Councilman Jeffrey Golden, Ward 3 Councilwoman Judy Mendenhall and Ward 5 Councilman Jim Davis voted to move ahead with the purchase. At-large Councilwoman Becky Smothers, Ward 2 Councilman Foster Douglas, Ward 4 Councilman Jay Wagner and Ward 6 Councilman Jason Ewing opposed the deal.