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Bladders created in the laboratory from a patient's own cells and then implanted in seven young people have achieved good long-term results in all of them, a team of researchers reported yesterday in a medical journal. It takes about two months to grow the new bladder on a scaffold outside the body. After implantation, the engineered bladder enlarges over time in the recipient. The researchers say they expect that the new bladder will last a patient's lifetime, but the longevity will be known only as the children grow older. The hope is that someday the experimental reconstruction procedure will be...

WESTWOOD ONE LAUNCHES THE MONICA CROWLEY SHOW --New Program to Air Saturdays, Noon - 3 p.m. ET-- Beginning Saturday, April 1, 2006 New York, NY Monday, Mar 20, 2006 - Westwood One (NYSE: WON) is proud to announce the national launch of The Monica Crowley Show, the three-hour talk program hosted by author and news personality Monica Crowley. The show begins Saturday, April 1, 2006, and will air from noon to 3 p.m. ET. The Monica Crowley Show will debut on major market stations across the country including: WABC-AM New York, WTKK-FM Boston and WTNT-AM Washington DC. The show will...

Is there a weekly contest at Air America to see which host can make the most asinine public statements? Perhaps there's a chart in the breakroom where each silly press outburst gets a happy face sticker next to the person's name?

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A state lawmaker whose son died when a woman sped past the lowered arm and flashing lights of a stopped school bus introduced legislation Wednesday to toughen the penalty for the crime. A bill introduced by Rep. Dale Folwell, R-Forsyth, would make passing a stopped school bus a higher level misdemeanor. Striking someone after passing the bus would become a felony. The bill was among more than 90 introduced Wednesday, a key deadline for filing bills that do not generate or require revenue. Bills not introduced by Wednesday will have a difficult time being considered before the...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Authorities seized an arsenal of weapons and ammunition from the home of the man accused of killing three people and wounding a deputy in his former Forsyth County neighborhood, court papers said. Denny Carson Booth, 59, of East Bend was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder following Thursday night's shooting spree. Booth had sold his home in northeast Forsyth County and moved out about a month ago after years of fighting with his neighbor, Dwight Allen, 41. On Thursday, he returned to his old neighborhood armed with a rifle,...

Winston-Salem, however, is one of the few places where city traffic engineers keep studying trouble spots after improvements are made, state transportation-safety officials said. The documentation is at the core of a long-running but little-known effort by city officials in Winston-Salem to make the streets safer. Over the past 17 years, the Winston-Salem Department of Transportation's Safety Improvement Program has tried to reduce wrecks at 469 intersections. Studies completed this year show that at 58 spots, the number of wrecks dropped by more than 25 percent - from 1,064 to 786, over a study period of about four years. The...

(AgapePress) - A North Carolina pastor is fighting to keep homosexual propaganda out of his county's public schools. Homosexual activists from ten liberal churches are demanding that the Winston-Salem/Forsyth School Board include "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" in the district's anti-harassment policy. The group has been joined in their efforts by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a national pro-homosexual education lobby group. Pastor Ron Baity of Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, who is a long-time opponent of GLSEN's agenda, says the current district policy is fine the way it is. He maintains the homosexual group's push to...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - Speaking little about fixing the textile crisis in North Carolina, President Bush focused instead Friday on worker retraining for biotechnology and other emerging fields to help displaced workers. "People who have lost work should have hope," the president said at a forum at Forsyth Technical Community College, where he heard from students who have used federal grants to go back to school and find new employment. "The economy is growing, new jobs are being created." Bush's appearance at the school and at a fund-raising luncheon in downtown...

<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- President George W. Bush will be greeted by irate textile executives when he comes to Winston-Salem Friday to talk about the economy and jobs.</p> <p>Textile executives say the administration has been slow to respond to their pleas to control a flood of cheap imports, particularly from China.</p>

Well Freepers, President Bush is on his way to my fair city this morning.

AP Take one:About 300 protesters gathered outside to demonstrate against Bush's trade and Iraq policies. AP Take Two: Approximately 400 protesters lined the streets around the convention center Reuters: Roughly 500 people protested the $2,000 per plate luncheon with a march, booing Bush supporters as they left the event. Jeff Allen yells, 'feed the needy, not the greedy' with other protesters outside the MC Benton Jr. Convention and Civic Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., Friday, Nov. 7, 2003, as guests to President Bush 's fund-raising luncheon exited the center. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis) Jeff Allen of Hickory, N.C., shouts 'Shame on...

<p>CHICAGO — R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. (RJR) Thursday said the Illinois Supreme Court granted the cigarette maker an unconditional stay in a case involving alleged misleading claims over "light" cigarettes.</p> <p>The state high court's order puts the case on hold until an appeal in a similar case pending against rival Altria Group Inc. (MO)'s Philip Morris (search) tobacco unit is resolved.</p>

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - (KRT) - President Bush came to North Carolina to talk about the improving economy Friday, but the silver lining in his message was obscured in parts of the state by the dark cloud of unemployment. The anger and frustration left behind by a wave of layoffs has soured even some of Bush's most ardent supporters in a state that he carried handily in 2000. North Carolina has lost more than 100,000 jobs since Bush took office, including 51,000 in the state's textile industry. While the economy appears to...

A teenage driver hit two kindergarten students Wednesday morning as they were attempting to board a bus, killing one child and critically injuring her cousin, authorities said. Ana Maria Sola, 6, died at Rowan Regional Medical Center. Her cousin, Brenda Sola, 5, was at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem with fractures and a head injury. She was in critical condition Wednesday afternoon, a hospital spokeswoman said. Brandon Potts, 17, apparently didn't stop for the school bus' warning lights and stop sign, said State Highway Patrol Trooper L.J. Staley. The district attorney was reviewing the case Wednesday before...

<p>A black Republican is the early favorite for a North Carolina House seat.</p> <p>In the wake of the Trent Lott fiasco, Republicans are highly sensitive to the fact that with the retirement of Oklahoma's Rep. J.C. Watts, there is now no black Republican in Congress. "It is a worrisome development for a party trying to sell itself as the home of compassionate conservatism," clucks the Washington Post. Indeed, many Republicans are actively recruiting Mr. Watts to return to Congress if Sen. Don Nickles retires next year.</p>