November 27, 2011
GREENSBORO — Mary Ann Holder was a fit mother. Holder’s attorney told the court as much on Nov. 18. Give her permanent custody of her nephew and two nieces, he asked in a complaint filed that day. Their mother is dead. Their father can’t...
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November 24, 2011
GREENSBORO — Another child shot Sunday during one of Guilford County’s deadliest shooting sprees died Wednesday afternoon. Makayla Leigh Woods, 15, was a sophomore at Southeast Guilford High School. Officials with the Guilford County Sheriff&r...
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November 22, 2011
Update, 11:53 a.m. Tuesday: The Guiford County Sheriff's Office said Zachary "Zack" Lee Smith died at 7:45 p.m. Monday. Smith, 14, was the younger son of Mary Ann Holder. GREENSBORO — This much is clear: Mary Ann Holder and Randy Lamb had...
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October 6, 2011
GREENSBORO -- By now, Owlsley the owl is somewhere near High Point or southwest Greensboro, looking for a sturdy tree limb to roost on until nightfall. He is only able to do so — soar, sleep, hunt, hoot — because people took an interest W...
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May 9, 2011
James Grace III, 37, is wanted by Greensboro police on charges of assault by strangulation, a felony; and two misdemeanor charges: assault on a female and child abuse.
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February 13, 2009
This story was originally published in the News & Record on Sept. 28, 2005. GREENSBORO — The hair was thinner, the shoulders slouched, but otherwise it was the same Virgil Griffin remembered from 26 years ago. The Klansman was defiant - gleeful, eve...
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February 26, 2008
GREENSBORO - Three local ministers say 50 boxes of material related to the 1979 Klan-Nazi shootings were destroyed during former police Chief David Wray's administration. The ministers plan this morning to name the officer who gave the order. In a news re...
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December 20, 2007
GREENSBORO — City officials are saying nothing more about three police officers suspended with pay after being accused of assault. Should the city reveal more information about the assault allegations? Join the discussion at the Debatables blog.
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GREENSBORO — Forty-nine jobs at City Hall must be eliminated by July 1, either through retirements or attrition. The City Council told City Manager Mitchell Johnson early Wednesday to reduce the number of city employees from 2,924 to 2,875 — b...
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December 19, 2007
GREENSBORO — Three Greensboro police officers have been suspended with pay after being accused of assault. Criminal and administrative investigations are under way, police Chief Tim Bellamy said in a news release Tuesday night. An assistant city attorne...
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December 18, 2007
GREENSBORO — Three Greensboro police officers have been suspended with pay after being accused of assault. Criminal and administrative investigations are under way, police Chief Tim Bellamy said in a news release Tuesday night. An assistant city attorne...
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March 23, 2007
GREENSBORO - Focusing on community police. Reducing gun violence and domestic abuse. Filling the vacant assistant chief positions. Moments after being named police chief Thursday, Tim Bellamy rattled off priorities intended to rebuild trust and show accou...
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February 22, 2007
Correction: City Councilman Mike Barber did not oppose releasing recordings and documents in Brady vs. City of Greensboro. A story Thursday about the release of the tapes stated otherwise. GREENSBORO - One remark about former police Chief David Wray's bot...
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November 10, 2006
GREENSBORO - Dianne Bellamy-Small says she will continue to serve on the City Council "with dignity and pride" because she has done nothing wrong. But she still hasn't been able to explain how her copy of a classified report on the police department wound...
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November 9, 2006
GREENSBORO - So the "forensic document analysts" have determined the leaked copy of a controversial police department investigation originated with Councilwoman Dianne Bellamy-Small. Questions remain: How'd it happen? Did she hand over the copy to the Web...
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November 2, 2006
GREENSBORO - Less than 2 percent of sworn officers are involved in the ongoing investigation into the police department, City Manager Mitchell Johnson told employees in a lengthy memo last week. Johnson posted the memo on the city's internal Web site Frid...
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November 1, 2006
GREENSBORO - The city of Greensboro is still trying to figure out whodunit. Investigators are examining unique photocopy patterns to ferret out who leaked a controversial report on former police Chief David Wray to reporters and bloggers. Hired by the cit...
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October 17, 2006
GREENSBORO - Anyone with Internet access can see parts of a controversial, closely held report that alleges insubordination and possible criminal wrongdoing by former police Chief David Wray. So will the Greensboro City Council finally talk about the repo...
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July 7, 2006
GREENSBORO - Prominent black leaders will rally support tonight for their Declaration of Intolerable Racism, a document that outlines what they consider recent injustices to the Guilford County black community. "We are experiencing a deplorable and rapidl...
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January 12, 2006
GREENSBORO - The city's attorney said Wednesday nothing short of a court order will force her to release a report detailing misconduct in the police department . Many of Greensboro's elected officials said even they haven't seen the results of the $70,000...
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