John Hinton

5 days ago | journalnow.com | John Hinton

A woman died Monday after she was struck by a vehicle, and Winston-Salem police are investigating the case as a homicide. The incident happened a 1:14 p.m. in the 2300 block of Burgandy Street, police said. After officers arrived at the scene of a reported hit-and-run collision, they found Tammy Denise Long, 53, suffering injuries consistent with being struck by a vehicle, police said. Emergency medical technicians took Long to a local hospital, where she died from her injuries, police said.

1 week ago | journalnow.com | John Hinton

A judge ruled last week that a Winston-Salem man was competent to stand trial on charges that he attacked a store clerk with a knife to steal tobacco products and lighters from a convenience store in June 2023. Judge Jason Ramey of Forsyth Superior Court ordered that Kenneth Murphy Robertson, 49, of Anson Street has the mental capacity to proceed to trial. Ramey made his ruling after a brief hearing Thursday, May 29.

1 week ago | journalnow.com | John Hinton

A Winston-Salem man, who worked as an extra in a 2011 movie, "Hero," was recently convicted of a sex offense and sentenced to prison, authorities said. A Forsyth County jury found Joel Hurt, 24, of Hickory Knoll Drive guilty May 15 of first-degree statutory sex offense, court records show. However, the jury found Hunt not guilty of taking indecent liberties with a child.

1 week ago | journalnow.com | John Hinton

A Winston-Salem woman was shot and wounded early Friday when someone fired into her home while she was sleeping, authorities said. Oglacia Dena Patterson-Johnson, 40, was taken to a local hospital. She is in critical but stable condition, Winston-Salem police said in a news release. The shooting happened shortly after midnight when an unknown suspect shot into the house in the 2000 block of Walker Road, police said. A bullet hit Patterson-Johnson.

1 week ago | journalnow.com | John Hinton

The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office will maintain school resource officers in the local middle and high schools despite the budget shortfall within the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough Jr. said Thursday. The school resource officers, who are Forsyth County sheriff's deputies, will remain on duty in the schools for 12 months every year, Kimbrough said during a news conference in the Public Safety Center in Winston-Salem.