
Dwight Sparks
Ernie Pyle’s battlefield death touched nation
DANA, Ind. — Thinking the danger had past, he and a soldier raised from a ditch and became ...
DANA, Ind. — Thinking the danger had past, he and a soldier raised from a ditch and became ...
We went to Myrtle Beach last week … and did nothing. Elizabeth and I spent long hours sitting ...
As communist plots go, the fluoride scare of the 1950’s didn’t work out too well for the Soviet ...
A tornado — in the form of a federal jury’s stunning $4.1 million judgment — hit the Mocksville ...
CHAPEL HILL — Maybe it was the talk of drinking moonshine in our pasts that went to our ...
It was the kind of news that would naturally stir the interest of little boys: Which American president ...
They both died over the weekend — my two long-time connections to the Bataan Death March: • Damon ...
I had one Christmas job — buy Elizabeth a present — and I had dangerously waited until Christmas ...
It’s hard to imagine a better outcome for the Cooleemee Plantation. The 2,033-acre plantation, held for nearly two centuries ...
Nearly on schedule, frost nipped us over the weekend several mornings. If Oct. 15 is the danger date, ...
COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL — A warren of rabbits played and nibbled on the manicured lawn — 10 of ...
‘Historic’ library? To the Editor: I laughed out loud when seeing the full page ad in reference to ...
Some talk about keeping church and government separate, but there are a lot of people who’d really like ...
To the Editor: The Clemmons Council continues to surprise. After capriciously forcing experienced and well-regarded city manager Gary ...
It isn’t what I had imagined for my first riding mower. There must be holes in the ...
Forgive me, Sarah Palin, I may have accidentally bought a pair of mom jeans. The former Alaska governor ...
No self-respecting cowboy ever made his receptionist ride point, drawing first fire from the bad guys. By seeking ...
What about “Shane”? That’s what Western movie lover Richard Hauser of Lewisville asked last week. Indeed, “Shane” is ...
It is the most dreaded maneuver in driving, and the Town of Mocksville has decided to make us ...
Political misses, Obamacare and what we don’t know … There are times when I’m reminded of how much ...
Already I miss Daylight Savings Time only a couple days into winter. It was almost dark when I ...
Farmington’s Feed Bag, the restaurant with the horsey name, made this month’s prestigious Southern Living magazine as an ...
Exactly half, 24 of 48 members of the Mocksville High Class of 1947, are still living. Twelve of ...
This was not an “in lieu of flowers” kind of day. Her friends knew that. So they brought ...
The life of crime is perilous indeed.Four people have been charged with storming into a High Rock Lake ...
Information can spread faster than lightning these days, but it took a while for what I was reading ...
The college basketball lineup on Friday, which includes the Northern Kentucky Norse taking on the Green Bay Phoenix,…
Thursday’s contest at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum has the No. 13 Duke Blue Devils (19-5) matching up…
Just a single Big South game is on Thursday in college basketball play. That contest is the Longwood…
The Wake Forest Demon Deacons (8-15) will try to snap a three-game losing streak when hosting the Duke…
The Wake Forest Demon Deacons (8-15) hope to snap a three-game losing streak when hosting the Duke Blue…