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What happened to her? If you raise this question in Manteo on Roanoke Island at the edge of the Outer Banks, people will think you are asking about Virginia Dare. In 1587, she was the first English child born in North America. But John Railey’s new book, “The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland,” asks that same question about Holland. She was a 19-year-old mountain girl from Canton, a student at Campbell College, and a make-up artist wo...

In 2002, Kevin Begos, the Winston-Salem Journal’s Washington correspondent, sent an email to Johanna Schoen, an academic researcher and an assistant women’s history professor at the University of Iowa about records she had pertaining to North Carolina’s eugenics program. In the email, Begos asked Schoen to give him access to those records, Schoen said. Schoen believes that Begos learned about the eugenics after she asked another North Carolina newspaper to do a story about the pr...

In 2002, Kevin Begos, the Winston-Salem Journal’s Washington correspondent, sent an email to Johanna Schoen, an academic researcher and an assistant women’s history professor at the University of Iowa about

Add another chapter to the epic Duke-Loyola postseason series.  With the game tied 9-9 and about :60 remaining in the first overtime period, Duke attackman Joe Robertson gathered the ball for his team’s second OT possession. He squared up Kyle LeBlanc, a Loyola defender who’d been injured since the Hounds’ game vs. Army on April 10, turned down a screen from Michael Sowers, got topside and sold out. Falling down, he put a sidearm shot into the ground. It bounced over Loyola goalie Sam Sh...

High Point author John Railey has written a new book. The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks:  Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland tells the story of the 1967 death of Brenda Holland. She had gone to the coast to work on the long-running Lost Colony play when she went missing. Her body was found five days later. The case has never been solved. But through interviews and a trove of unearthed State Bureau of Investigation files, Railey thinks he knows who did it. He spoke with WFDD’s ...

Te’ore Terry comes to his mother in dreams. Three months after he was fatally shot in Winston-Salem, on Valentine’s Day, Te’ore comes to Velma Terry. “His spirit is strong and I believe it is strong because his murder is not solved,” she said last week. “He’s comforting his mother, letting me know he’s got me.” Terry also draws strength from a group she helped start for Black mothers facing challenges, never realizing she would personally face one of...

HIGH POINT — This is the story John Railey always wanted to tell. Having spent much of his life on the Outer Banks, the 60-year-old High Point journalist and author had heard for decades about the 1967 unsolved murder of Brenda Joyce Holland, a 19-year-old makeup artist for “The Lost Colony” theater production. Now though, Railey’s the one telling the tragic tale, and he tells it as it’s never been told before. Railey wrote for the Winston-Salem Journal for 21 years, wh...