Colin Donohue

From the Gaston Gazette (5/20/11): A Gaston County health education worker caught sleeping on the job and an EMT accused of conducting an unauthorized medical procedure were fired last year, according to personnel records. An assistant principal tested positive for a controlled substance and was demoted and reassigned to another school.

From the Beaufort Observer (5/16/11): There's a fight going on in Chapel Hill and Raleigh that few people in Beaufort County, we suspect, are paying much attention to. But nonetheless it is extremely significant to every person in Beaufort County and will be even more significant to our children and grandchildren.

Students in Elon University's Interactive Media master's program showed off the work they've done this semester in their capstone courses at the Interactive Media Exhibition May 18 on the second floor of Powell.

Students in Elon's Interactive Media master's program will showcase their work from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 18 on the second floor of Powell. All are invited to view the many projects that students have worked on during the past year.

From the Raleigh News and Observer (5/9/11): Some public records would not really be public - at least to that segment of the public comprising inmates, probationers and parolees - under a bill that surfaced last week in a judiciary committee meeting. HB 348, sponsored by Rep. Shirley Randleman, a Republican from Wilkes County, is meant to protect state agency employees by blocking offenders' access to their personnel files.

From American Medical News (5/9/11): A long-running push for increased transparency in the medical profession has led medical boards nationwide to release more information about physicians' professional and disciplinary history online during the last 15 years.

From the Asheville Citizen-Times (4/23/11): City officials have declined to release detailed information about a former police evidence manager under an exemption in state personnel law designed to bolster public confidence in government.