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A bevy of bills before the state legislature seeks to improve how state and local agencies assist people struggling with mental health crises and related issues. They’re both promising and overdue. One of them, House Bill 786, “Enhance Local Response/Mental Health Crises,” would provide funding for pilot programs to study how local police departments could respond to nonviolent emergency calls involving mental health, homelessness, substance use or other behavioral problems, with...

More than 100 mental and behavioral health officials have signed a petition urging the city to adopt alternative emergency responses to incidents involving mental and behavioral issues. Police presence sometimes

Wake Forest Baptist Health, provided  River Wilson spent the first 169 days of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem because he was born premature. The hospital has the region’s only Level IV NICU, which has experts who provide specialized care for babies born as young as 22 weeks gestational age, the hospital said. GREENSBORO — He came into this world a few centimeters shorter than an average-sized Barbie doll. His mother...

Newly-elected Winston-Salem City Council Member Kevin Mundy has issued a video apology for comments he made asking members of groups that have advocated for reduced police spending to tone down their remarks to the city council. Mundy, a Democrat, participated in a Zoom meeting on Thursday with three members of the group Forsyth County Police Accountability and Reallocation Coalition. In the meeting, Mundy and members of the group discussed demands that the city move money away from policing...