Bobby Kimbrough

Colbert Seagraves (center), owner of Gatsby's Pub, listens as city leaders respond to a question during the meeting with downtown stakeholders Thursday. He says his employees are frightened and don't want to come to work. PAUL GARBER/WFDD

Crime

At meeting on Winston-Salem shootings, local business owners cite lack of police presence. In response, sheriff offers assistance

Paul Garber

Downtown Winston-Salem business owners and workers expressed fears and frustrations to city leaders Thursday about the lack of police in the area during a…

Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough responds to a question at a community Trust Talk on the campus of Forsyth Technical Community College Tuesday. PAUL GARBER/WFDD

Politics & Government

Forsyth Sheriff blasts proposed change on background checks for guns

Paul Garber

A community forum meant to discuss police violence turned to concerns from Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough about legislative attempts to ease gun restrictions.

Crime

Winston-Salem and Forsyth County law enforcement leaders to hold 'Trust Talk' on police violence

Paul Garber

Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough and Winston-Salem Police Chief William Penn Jr. will hold a public forum next week to discuss how law enforcement…

Rev. Meg Gaston Peters, an associate minister at Centenary United Methodist Church, delivers a prayer to open the Homeless Persons' Memorial Service in Winston-Salem Wednesday. PAUL GARBER/WFDD

Housing

Service honors homeless people who died over the last year

Paul Garber

Advocates for Winston-Salem’s homeless people gathered in downtown Wednesday for a memorial service in honor of those who died during the last year.…

Politics & Government

Local sheriffs, district attorneys reelected

Paul Garber

Incumbent sheriffs and district attorneys in Guilford County and Forsyth County won races for reelection Tuesday. Forsyth Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough and…

Courts

Grand Jury declines to indict five former jail officers charged in John Neville's death

April Laissle

A Forsyth County grand jury declined to indict five former detention officers accused in the 2019 death of John Neville, who died after being restrained…

Crime

New Lawsuit Says John Neville Arrived At Hospital With Brain Damage

Neal Charnoff

A new lawsuit alleges that John Neville had brain damage when he was transported from jail to a Winston-Salem hospital, where he later died. The suit…

Crime

Shots Fired At Students As Parkland High Dismissed

Paul Garber

Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough says no one was injured when a male subject fired shots at Parkland High School students as the school adjourned…

Crime

'Human Life Is Not Being Valued,' Winston-Salem Police Chief Says After String Of Shootings

Paul Garber

An attack on a police substation has been linked to the discovery of two shooting victims from the suspect's family, according to Winston-Salem police.…

Race

A Year After Floyd's Death, Winston-Salem Activists, Police Examine What's Changed

David Ford

It's been one year since the murder of George Floyd and a time when protests erupted around the world, including right here in the Triad. Black Lives…