June 13, 2010
Chances remain slim to none that oil or the now-familiar “tar balls” from the Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 workers in the Gulf of Mexico will reach the North Carolina coast this summer, experts say.
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June 6, 2010
CLEMMONS -- One morning in May, I showed up unannounced at my old school, West Forsyth High, for the first time since 1975. Resurfacing like a truant who skipped out before lunch period and had second thoughts 35 years later, I found no one calling the ro...
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May 1, 2010
GREENSBORO — One block from The Depot, the new day center for the homeless, due to open in mid-October, will be a place to rest and stay warm, shower, wash clothes, get a haircut, look for work.
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April 21, 2010
LEXINGTON — By many measures, incumbent David S. Grice has done a yeoman’s job from the traditional basement office he reclaimed for the Davidson County sheriff.
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April 13, 2010
GREENSBORO — In a final blow to the city’s oldest refugee resettlement agency, Lutheran Family Services of the Carolinas will shut down the legal office that for 20 years helped reunite parents, children and spouses torn apart by civil war and...
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April 11, 2010
GREENSBORO -- All things being equal, this might not seem the time or place for a big gamble. Specifically, a 5,000-square-foot supermarket built, brick by brick, paying cash.
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April 4, 2010
GREENSBORO — The tenants compare it to a light bulb coming on — a $3 light bulb. It was the moment when neighbors at J.T. Hairston Memorial Apartments, owned by a nonprofit board from Shiloh Baptist Church, began comparing notes.
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April 3, 2010
GREENSBORO — The only thing everyone agreed on, including tenant Luke Somero, was that the unemployed concrete worker was seven months behind on the rent. But when a judge signed an order padlocking Somero out of his garage apartment near Old Lake J...
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March 30, 2010
GREENSBORO — When an employee with the Guilford County Department of Public Health walked into the African and Caribbean market to ask for “Nzu,” a traditional remedy for morning sickness, it seemed a common request.
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March 18, 2010
Swamped by its highest volume of jobless claims in history, the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina has a sliver of good news for 43,000 of the laid-off workers across the state: Your money is in the bank.
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March 15, 2010
GREENSBORO — As deputies prepared to carry out an eviction and padlocking before a judge signed a last-minute stay Monday, Otis Hairston Jr. was more than just another face in the crowd gathered on the sidewalk.
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March 6, 2010
GREENSBORO - Two paths converged in a not-so-distant wood this week: the $26 million Downtown Greenway, and a longtime homeless “tent city” in its way.
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February 25, 2010
GREENSBORO — A decision by the State Department and Lutheran Family Services’ national affiliate to halt arrivals to the nonprofit’s local office won’t mean fewer refugees.
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February 24, 2010
GREENSBORO — A Guilford County judge is expected to rule against a tenant alleging that her eviction from subsidized housing owned by a Shiloh Baptist Church board is in retaliation for tenant organizing. But district court Judge Polly D. Sizemore...
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February 23, 2010
GREENSBORO — Lutheran Family Services of the Carolinas halted its refugee arrivals to the Triad on Tuesday, citing economic conditions.
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February 21, 2010
GREENSBORO — It was welcome news to recently arrived Iraqis desperate for work: job openings at $9 to $12 per hour.But there was a catch.The jobs are in West Virginia at a poultry plant, refugees learned during a community meeting Friday night.
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GREENSBORO — When Christian Rook, 17, felt a manic episode blow in like a storm front, family members say, he looked for shelter. Either he would get himself arrested, as he did in December, spending 12 days in jail, or committed for treatment as he...
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February 20, 2010
GREENSBORO — A judge may rule next week in an unusual eviction case that has the city’s Human Relations Department taking sides against a nonprofit housing complex affiliated with Shiloh Baptist Church.
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February 7, 2010
MEBANE — Cases don’t come much colder, in any sense, than John Doe 98-21372. Detective Tim Horne keeps the file he inherited in a box under his desk. Every time he moves his foot, he hits it. “Just so I don’t forget it,” the...
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January 31, 2010
Editor's note: This article about a lawsuit involving real-estate covenants referred to J&S Electric Co. owned by Steve and Jennifer Miller of Summerfield, not J&S Electric Co. of Greensboro owned by Raymond Spillers.
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January 24, 2010
GREENSBORO — After a service crunch left newly arrived Iraqis with dwindling resources, a community network emerged that faith leaders say is receiving broad support.
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January 17, 2010
GREENSBORO — Tenants of a church-affiliated housing complex allege they were evicted because some of them petitioned the manager to resign and questioned how a HUD-backed loan was spent.
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January 10, 2010
GREENSBORO — Outside her dome tent in the woods, Yong Suggs has landscaped a tidy patch of gravel and keeps her slippers lined up neatly by the door.
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January 8, 2010
GREENSBORO — The state director of refugee services resigned at Lutheran Family Services this week as the agency struggles with resettlement problems for recent Iraqi arrivals.
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January 5, 2010
GREENSBORO — When it was so cold at 7 a.m. Monday that his police cruiser was slow to start, Capt. Wayne Scott knew what his first task should be when he arrived at work: dispatch a squad to check on the homeless.
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