On average, about one in every 1,250 North Carolinians is without a home. Mitzi Williams, the executive director of Christian Ministry of Lincoln County, talks about one of her organization’s clients, known as “Mrs. Janice.”
Today In History in 1564 playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown); and in 1865 Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.