Apex Specials

President Barack Obama will present his “jobs plan” on Wednesday at a company which is shipping jobs overseas. Obama is scheduled to present his “jobs plan” in Apex, N.C., on Wednesday at the headquarters of WestStar Precision. WestStar is a high-end, specialty manufacturer that just opened a new facility in San Jose, Costa Rica — [...]

Captain Janks prank calls WRAL TV in North Carolina disguised as an emergency management spokesperson during their coverage of Hurricane Irene. This is the actual on-air video of the call preceded by the set-up of Janks duping the producers. At WRAL on Saturday, anchors Pam Saulsby and Bill Leslie took a live on-air call they [...]

Messy Chef Cupcakes for a cure! Proceeds go to the Ultimate Hike for CureSearch. $15/half-dozen, $26/dozen Strawberry-lemonade cupcakes with lemon buttercream Pina colada cupcakes with pineapple rum buttercream French vanilla cupcakes with blueberry buttercream Chocolate cupcakes with raspberry buttercream Please send your order to teameve@rocketmail.com. Pickup will be available on August 13th, 9 am – [...]

President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks. “I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because [...]

Some people who need medical care but can’t afford it go to the emergency room. Others just hope they’ll get better. James Richard Verone robbed a bank. Earlier this month, Verone (pictured), a 59-year-old convenience store clerk, walked into a Gaston, N.C., bank and handed the cashier a note demanding $1 and medical attention. Then [...]

Are you like the many people that have neck and back pain that keeps you from simple activities which you enjoy? Neck and back pain is treated by primary care physicians with pain medication. Pain medication does nothing to correct the cause of pain. Pharmaceutical drugs merely mask your perception of the discomfort while not [...]

In a modern-day evocation of David’s slingshot triumph over Goliath, a couple of foreclosed homeowners in Naples, Florida reportedly foreclosed on a Bank of America branch last week, their attorney actually having moving trucks pull up in front of a Naples branch to execute a foreclosure judgment against the bank. What must have seemed to [...]

David Bowden of Cary won a $46,000 judgment when a federal judge found that the town’s sign ordinance violated his First Amendment rights. The man at the center of a free speech case against the town of Cary has died from lung cancer. William “David” Bowden was 69. Bowden sued the town in November 2009 [...]

Woodhaven Baptist Church in Apex welcomes Dr. David Stratton as its new senior pastor. He begins his work at Woodhaven on May 23. An official installation service will take place on June 5 at 3:00 pm. A native of Appomattox, Virginia, Dr. Stratton graduated this month from the Campbell University Divinity School, earning the Doctor [...]

Motiva officials dug their shovels into the dirt last week at Jaycee Park, the site of the $20,000 playground the oil company is paying to install. The playground is the first of many projects Motiva will help fund in the coming years to raise its community profile following a controversial February vote to expand its [...]