Update: Victim of Landscaping Fatal Accident Identified
UPDATE @ 4:55 p.m. Sunday: Police released the victim's name as Thomas Guy Rayle, 45, of Randleman. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) ? A landscaping worker was killed Saturday while on the job shortly before noon Saturday at 4125 North Patterson Avenue, according to police. Thomas Rayle, 45, of Randleman, reportedly fell into a commercial truck that grinds up and distributes mulch. The victim, ...

Landscaping Worker Killed in Job Site Accident
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) ? A landscaping worker was killed Saturday while on the job shortly before noon Saturday at 4125 North Patterson Avenue, according to police. The yet-to-be identified man reportedly fell into a commercial truck that grinds up and distributes mulch. The victim, according to police, became entangled and died.

X-Court will close for work
Work on concrete, landscaping takes place this week.

PHOTOS: Sheriff and Garden Club plant Christmas Tree
The Harrisburg Garden Club procured a Norway spruce as a Christmas Tree for the Saline County Law Enforcement and Detention Center lawn. Andrew Daniels of Daniels Landscaping planted it this morning. From left are Garden Club members Vicki Cummiskey, Brenda Knight, jail custodian Ed Mann, Garden Club member Mary Sue Ewing, Jail Administrator Capt. David Underwood, Sheriff Keith Brown and ...

Church groups are making children's home a reality
DUNNELLON - With new landscaping outside and fresh paint inside the first cottage at Covenant Children's Home, group members now are preparing for their annual holiday fundraiser, which will be part of the historic district's First Saturday Street Market this Saturday.

Irrigation plans could be required for water service
New commercial developments within Nipomo Community Services District boundaries may soon be required to submit irrigation and landscaping plans for review before will-serve letters will be issued for water service.

Donation brings more than 100 new trees to zoo
Last month, 60 sixth-graders from the Grand Rapids Public Zoo School took their study of trees out into the field, joining personnel from Rooks Landscaping and staff from the John Ball Zoo to plant over 100 trees. The trees were donated by longtime sponsor Bissell Inc.

Life after polio
At first glance, Gary Presley's home is like all the others on the pristine Springfield block where he lives: a duplex condominium with a neat strip of lawn and ornamental landscaping, nothing out of place.

FFA, Howmet and conservation district go green in the snow
Dustin Ellsworth, left, and Josh Pineda, right, get ready to plant a tree as they listen to Jeff Auch. Alcoa-Howmet?s native landscaping project got a boost from the Muskegon Conservation District and students in Montague?s FFA program.

Completing Eagle Scout trifecta
Braving blustery wind and bitter cold on Saturday, Nov. 22, at Oak Meadows Field in Rockaway Township, Peter Van Eck, members of his Boy Scout Troop 113 and other volunteers, finished his Eagle Scout project. His two older brothers are Eagle Scouts. The group was beautifying the entrance to the field with landscaping and a new sign, work that was spread over two weekends. His brother, Grant, 23, ...

The Pursuit of Expansiveness Guides the Capitol?s New Visitor Center
The new Capitol Visitor Center in Washington has more than doubled the building?s footprint and is expected to increase its annual visitors to more than three million.

OSHA Investigates Local Fatal Mulcher Accident
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigates a gruesome landscaping accident that killed a man in Winston-Salem.

Grants Offer Resource To Help Improve Homes
Efforts to revitalize North Long Beach now include an opportunity for residents to get reimbursed for home repairs.

Businesses see light at end of road construction
Traffic is flowing more freely at Scottsdale Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, which is good news for area businesses.

Keanu Reeves
Why Is He Famous? During his long and busy career, Keanu Reeves has been in Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Point Break (1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Speed (1994), The Devil's Advocate (1997), and the Matrix trilogy.

Day off for Thanksgiving costly for Anderson man
A Thanksgiving homecoming reportedly cost an Anderson man $12,000, according to Anderson police.

Concord Pacific defends cutting down trees along northeast False Creek shoreline
The trees are gone...but the outrage remains for many people living near the northeast False Creek shoreline. On Friday and Saturday, Concord Pacific crews cut down all the trees along the water from ...

Clear-cut land may be filling with homes
East Oak Ridge residents have suggested they have run out of patience with the pace of development on clear-cut property that looms over the city's southern entrance at Edgemoor Road.

Revenues dry up as water demand drops
Water utilities across the region say a cool summer and a cooling economy have cut demand and hurt their bottom lines, making it harder to fund system maintenance and expansion -- and making it necessary to raise rates on users.

Biocontrol Scores Knockout Punch On Birch Tree Pest
The birch leafminer, an insect pest that regularly disfigures birch trees, has been virtually eradicated in the Northeast. The credit goes to entomologists who successfully introduced a biological control agent.