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Schools offer free seasonal flu shots for Wake students

All school-age children in Wake County can receive free seasonal flu shots at any one of 21 clinics being held at public and private schools in coming weeks.

All but one of the clinics will be held between 3:30 and 7:30 p.m., and they are open to students in kindergarten through 12th grade regardless of where they live in the county or what school they attend. A parent or guardian must accompany all students when they receive the vaccine.

Only shots for seasonal flu will be available, not H1N1 flu. The clinics will begin Tuesday and continue at different sites through Nov. 24.

Stricken family needs help (05/06/2005)

Nathaniel "Zane" Winters, 45, ran his plumbing business, helped his wife raise two children, cared for his recently widowed sister-in-law and, in his spare time, volunteered with a Wake County fire department.

In short, Winters was the glue that kept things together.

"He helped everybody," said a friend, Angie Young. "If anybody needed anything, no matter if it was family or friends, he was there for them."

Former teacher gets four life sentences

Four consecutive life sentences is what Bernard Sanford received in exchange for pleading guilty Thursday to killing one neighbor, shooting another and setting fire to a mobile home that held photographs documenting decades of child sexual abuse.

He avoided the death penalty.

Sanford, 63, sat in a wheelchair in a Wake County courtroom and listened as prosecutor Melanie Shekita detailed how, on April 17, 2005, he fatally shot Nathaniel "Zane" Winters, 45, and seriously wounded Winters' sister-in-law, Karen Winters, before torching her North Raleigh mobile home and catching on fire himself.

Winter weather closes schools early

Snowflakes are swirling across most of the Triangle this afternoon, and schoolchildren are being dismissed early as a winter weather system moves across the state.

The National Weather Service predicts a varying mix of snow, sleet, rain and freezing rain that could make roads slippery by this evening and through the weekend.

The local forecast is still iffy, and it appears that the worst of the weather will be west and north of Wake County.

Catholic schools grew from modest origins

Long before there was a Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, four nuns and a priest from Newburgh, N.Y., came to North Carolina to open a school for Catholic children. That institution, now two separate schools, is celebrating its centennial with a host of programs, including a special Mass and open house today.

The schools, Sacred Heart Parochial, now called the Cathedral School, and Sacred Heart High, now called Cardinal Gibbons High School, opened on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh in 1909, adjacent to the church of the same name.

Catholics were few in North Carolina in those days, and the two schools enrolled 50 students.