WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Five adults and two children were displaced from their home after an apartment fire officials said was caused by cooking Wednesday morning in Winston-Salem.

Officials said the blaze was reported around 4:17 a.m. at 371 L Village Crossing Lane and about 22 firefighters had the situation under control within about five minutes.

No injuries were reported. Fire officials said the apartment received an estimated $50,000 in property damage and $10,000 in content damage.

Officials said all fire damage was contained to the single apartment. Two others received minor smoke and water damage, authorities said.

Authorities said the fire was accidently caused by somebody leaving cooking oil unattended on a stove.

Firefighters said they arrived to find smoke from the apartment’s balcony.

Officials said attack lines were used to put the fire out and a second floor resident was rescued by a ladder.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A commitment Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center made to Dr. John McConnell, its chief executive, when he was recruited led to a nearly 50 percent increase in his total compensation for fiscal year 2010-11, the center reported Tuesday.

McConnell was paid almost $2.5 million in total compensation, compared with $1.68 million for fiscal 2009-10.

Because Wake Forest Baptist’s fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, the latest compensation figures are 10½ months old.

The executive compensation numbers are becoming public six weeks after McConnell told employees the center is considering reducing its workforce as part of a major initiative aimed at improving patient outcomes at a lower cost.

With 13,588 full- and part-time employees, the center has the county’s largest workforce.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A 19-year-old Winston-Salem man pleaded guilty for his role in a home invasion in which he and two others broke into a house, put a gun in a 2-year-old girl’s mouth and threatened to shoot her, her younger sister and her mother.

Herbert Juwan Fullard pleaded guilty Tuesday in Forsyth County Superior Court to first-degree kidnapping, robbery with a dangerous weapon, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, felony breaking and entering, felony larceny, larceny of a motor vehicle and breaking and entering of a motor vehicle.

He also entered what is known as an Alford plea to sexual battery, which means he did not admit guilt but acknowledged that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him.

Judge Edgar Gregory sentenced Fullard to 11 years and eight months to 15 years and six months in prison.