The Twin-City Sentinel was the name of the afternoon newspaper published in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The Sentinel's masthead was dropped in 1985 when operations were absorbed into its sister paper, the morning Winston-Salem Journal.
One of the Sentinel's most popular columns was "Ask SAM," a forum for readers to submit questions.
Journal editor Ronda Bumgardner picked up the column, and the acronym was changed again to "Straight-Answer Ma'am."
Deborah Sykes, a 25-year-old copy editor at The Sentinel, was raped, sodomized, and stabbed to death in a public park a few blocks from the newspaper's offices on the morning of August 10, 1984.