PFAFFTOWN, N.C. — Regular visitors to the Hidden K Stables in Pfafftown often look twice at Ace, a reddish-brown American Warm Blood horse.

Can the robust, strong-bodied horse with the outsized personality really be the same horse that arrived at the stables several months ago, malnourished and afflicted with a variety of maladies?

Indeed, in eight short months, Ace has gone from pitiful to prizewinning, thanks to the efforts of volunteers with Hidden K Stables Rescue and Rehabilitation, a new nonprofit organization that wants to train and find new homes for neglected and abused horses.

A volunteer with the nonprofit found Ace in Pennsylvania last August, just one month after the group formed, said Dawn Longham, the chairwoman of the board of directors.

“We weren’t thinking about getting a horse yet. We were just getting our feet wet when we found Ace,” Longham said. “He was headed for a slaughterhouse in Canada.”

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Neighbors say they’ve filed complaints against police and sheriff’s deputies after witnessing the arrest of a Winston-Salem fugitive who authorities say is responsible for injuring two deputies as a result of his resistance. 

According to Chief Deputy F. B. Stanley with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the Rolling Hills apartment complex in the 700 block of Ferrell Court around 11:20 a.m. Thursday after receiving a tip about the whereabouts of 18-year-old Christopher Lavon Geter.

Authorities had been searching for Geter since December 2011, when Staley said the suspect cut off his pretrial ankle bracelet and disappeared.

Stanley said Geter tried running away from deputies when they arrived at the apartment complex.