August 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — A Homeland Security ban against using Tasers on immigration detainees could get in the way of a 287(g) compact between federal authorities and the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff BJ Barnes said last week. Barnes, who wa...
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August 2, 2009
GREENSBORO — Until the sweltering day in June when they were reunited at Ho Chi Minh City Airport, it had been 30 years since H’Juel Ya’s mother and grandmother laid eyes on each other. The elder had been imprisoned by the Vietnamese g...
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July 30, 2009
Maybe President Barack Obama was in Raleigh, but if you were 13 and younger, you knew where the real action was Wednesday afternoon. All you had to do was follow the piercing screams to the front of the line at the Friendly Center and it was DEMI LOVATO.
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July 28, 2009
Death be not proud, quoth the poet — especially when a flock of messy, noisy Canada geese take up residence in one’s final resting place. Tired of cleaning up after the birds, the management of Westminster Gardens off Westridge Road this month...
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July 26, 2009
To outsiders, Greensboro College runs under the radar — a small, genteel campus easy to overlook, if it weren’t for its life-size nativity scene each Christmas. Yet to the faculty and alumni now confronted with a fiscal crisis that is shaking...
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Editor's Note: This story misattributed to Louis DeJoy a statement that lawyers for the school and for Bank of America reviewed the decision to put the endowment up as collateral on the college’s debt. The statement should have been attributed...
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July 18, 2009
GREENSBORO — Greensboro College, $19 million in debt, has put up its campus and the lion’s share of its endowment as collateral to Bank of America, school officials said Friday. And a month before classes start, the small liberal arts college...
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July 8, 2009
GREENSBORO — Craven Williams, who helped revive an ailing Greensboro College when he became president in 1993 but in recent years watched the Methodist-affiliated school sink into mounting debt, abruptly retired Tuesday. Less than two weeks after Wi...
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June 28, 2009
Editor's Note: Because of incorrect information provided to the News & Record, this article misreported who pays the bill for a personal trainer for the wife of Greensboro College President Craven Williams. Williams personally reimburses Gre...
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June 20, 2009
We’re never given more load than we can carry, it’s said. But is that true? On the first Sunday morning in June at Centenary United Methodist Church, a young family gets up to change pews. They move from behind where Mark Hoffmann, 51, the cit...
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June 8, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Every aunt, uncle and cousin twice-removed made the trip down from Ahoskie to the Greensboro Coliseum on Sunday to watch Joseph Lee Williams cross the stage at Southeast Guilford High School’s graduation. Since this was Williams&rsquo......
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May 31, 2009
The bad news? A Greensboro psychiatric patient’s five-day stay in Moses Cone’s emergency room until a bed came open May 7 at the state’s at-capacity Central Regional hospital was the longest case of “ER dumping” state offici...
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May 19, 2009
Former WXII-12 anchor Tolly Carr was released to his parole officer at 1 a.m. Monday from Camp Burton in McLeansville, a deputy superintendent said, after Carr served more than two years in a 2007 drunken-driving crash that killed a Winston-Salem chef.The...
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May 17, 2009
When we were young, the path to success was clear. Smooth as the straightaway at the Kentucky Derby, it would vault us over the finish line, into the winner’s circle. Trophies. Roses. Champagne. How clear that path appeared at Henson Farms in 1999......
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For a Greensboro earth science teacher, it was a little like getting to place the last piece in a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle. Except that this particular puzzle is a 3.6-million-year-old lake in the middle of the 30-below Siberian tundra. There, at the to...
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During the last political campaign, members of the N.C. Association of Educators stood in the rain handing out early voting leaflets. At the top of the slate: Bev Perdue for governor, the pro-education candidate. But Saturday, stung by Perdue’s rece...
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May 16, 2009
“I live outside the city limits and I’m having problems with snakes. I even found one in my house. How do I get rid of snakes?” — Cassandra Casey This called for an expert — Robert Hood of Animal Control E...
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May 8, 2009
GREENSBORO — A mentally ill Greensboro man spent five days at Moses Cone’s emergency room handcuffed to a bed, waiting for transfer to the state’s new, but at-capacity, psychiatric hospital, police said Thursday. The man, whose name was...
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April 30, 2009
HIGH POINT — Chances are that back in Suffolk, Va., or Cape Cod, Mass., affluent suburbs they left to enroll at High Point University, these were stories Katelyn Rhodes and Caitlin Miller only read about. They are stories of Burmese refugees who fle...
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April 18, 2009
I am a longtime reader, but my vision is deteriorating due to macular degeneration. One of my favorite things to do — read the newspaper — is more difficult every day. Can someone help me? — Judie Wood, Greensboro That’s a yes, acc...
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April 9, 2009
GRAHAM — Rival protesters, kept a block apart by the very jail at issue, held peaceful immigration rallies Wednesday that nevertheless ended in the arrests of seven demonstrators, one dressed as the Statue of Liberty. The protest and counterprotest...
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April 5, 2009
Mentally ill, addicted to pain pills, homeless at 53, Betty Ann Scott went through jail, hospitals, rehab, every place but where she wound up the afternoon of Feb. 15. For once, her hospital stay would be long — 15 days. But there is no treatment he...
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March 31, 2009
To Mark Hoffmann, the highly visible if little understood “man on the bench” at Friendly Center, maybe Greensboro is home after all. He reappeared early Sunday morning, to the astonishment of a volunteer setting up at Centenary United Methodis...
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March 22, 2009
Connie Williams is a granddaughter of South Carolina sharecroppers who chopped cotton and worked in tobacco before heading north in the “Great Migration” of black Southerners in the mid-20th century. But the recent Greensboro transplant &mdash...
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Connie Williams’ move to Greensboro from New Jersey two years ago was hardly an isolated statistic. Both North and South Carolina were among the top 10 “influx” states gaining in African American migration from 1995 to 2000, according to...
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