A proposed $60,000 economic incentives package for an undisclosed company interested in Cary is no more.

"There is no incentives contract to discuss," said Mayor Harold Weinbrecht at last week's Town Council Meeting, before removing a public hearing on the contract from the agenda.

Budget director Scott Fogleman confirmed there was no contract. "If and when there is another incentives contract, it will come back to a hearing," he said.

Public hearings for this particular contract were scheduled for the Feb. 25 and March 10 meetings.

According to the meeting agenda, the town would've made a cash grant with job count payback provisions if certain thresholds were not met.

Suspended teacher replaced

APEX Wake County school administrators assigned a new eighth-grade science teacher to West Lake Middle School while they continue investigating an educator who was suspended over Facebook comments about her students, Christianity and the South.

Melissa Hussain, a teacher at the school, has been suspended with pay since Feb. 12.

Hussain wrote on the social-networking site that it was a "hate crime" that students anonymously left a Bible on her desk, and she told how she "was able to shame the kids" over the incident.

Her Facebook page included comments from friends. One commenter suggested that Hussain retaliate by bringing a Dale Earnhardt Jr. poster to class with a swastika drawn on the NASCAR driver's forehead.

From Cary News and News & Observer staff reports.