The roots of NASCAR still to be found in Northwest NC, or, White Lightning still to be found in the hills: "'This is one of the biggest seizures of white liquor I've seen come out of the mountains in my career,' Alcohol Law Enforcement Director John Ledford said Friday of the seizure of 929 gallons of moonshine at a home on Shew Ridge Mission Road.

"Just in time for the National Peanut Festival, AP President Tom Curley is sounding nuttier and nuttier:"

From a press release from the Yadkin Riverkeeper: "The Yadkin Riverkeeper® has announced that the cleanup Alcoa performed at the boat ramp access below Narrows Dam on Badin Lake Oct. 10-12 is a direct result of the PCBs discovered and linked to the company’s operations below Badin Lake, which have traveled as far down river as the Falls Dam boat launch."

Where was this research when I was 16?

"University researchers questioned nearly 10,000 15 to 16-year-olds in the north-west of England.

They got into trouble more when buying their own cheap alcohol, rather than getting access from parents, it found.

Carefully introducing alcohol to children may help them "prepare themselves for life in an adult environment dominated by this drug", said the study."