SALISBURY - Rowan-Cabarrus Community College students returned from the 58th Annual North Carolina Phi Beta Lambda Leadership Conference with numerous awards – including first prize in accounting, financial services, small business management, and word processing.

“I am so proud of all of our students who competed at the conference,” said Martha Cranford, Rowan-Cabarrus faculty member and chapter advisor. “I’m proud of our students and would encourage all Rowan-Cabarrus students to consider being part of the PBL organization and compete in state and national competitive events.”

Nine students from Rowan-Cabarrus attended the Phi Beta Lambda Leadership conference in Charlotte late last month. Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL) is the largest and oldest student business organization.

SALISBURY - Two East Spencer firefighters and a police officer were found not guilty in court on Tuesday in an alleged case of a taser attack on a teenage firefighter at a firehouse Christmas party.

In January, Chief David Ramsey told WBTV that East Spencer Fire Chief Shane Cranfield and former fire chief Allen Carlyle used a police officer's Taser on a volunteer firefighter at the fire department's Christmas party on December 10. The officer, 40-year-old James Lambeth, was on-duty at the time of the incident.

The drive stun, which is held to a person's skin, was used at least nine times on 18-year-old John Resino, a student at North Rowan High School in Salisbury. Resino is a East Spencer volunteer fireman, according to the Sheriff's report.

The volunteer firefighter reportedly ran out of the room to get away from the firefighters, but Ramsey says witnesses told deputies that Cranfield and Carlyle broke the door’s handle and stunned the teen.

Investigators say Lambeth's department-issued Taser X-26 was discharged 18 times within three minutes.

Resino was not taken to the hospital, Ramsey said.

On Tuesday after a week long trial before Judge Kevin Eddinger, the three men were found not guilty.

KANNAPOLIS - On Monday we brought you the news of the discovery of a clue into what may cause infertility in some men.  On Tuesday we were able to talk to one of the research scientists involved in the study, and the scientist who led the study.

Could the answer to infertility be found at the local farmer's market...maybe, at least for some men.

The research is from a study at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis. 

"It is the dream of a scientist who has an interest in the clinical end of it," Dr. Karen Corbin, PhD, RD, told WBTV.  "Is to be able to take something that you see at the bench with a mouse or cell models and look to see if it's happening in humans and use that information to help people."

The research may also be a dream come true for couples dealing with infertility.