February 27, 2008
It seems like just another week on the gray end of February, but for one 17-year-old girl from Greensboro, this was the week her wish came true: Flying to New York to meet her favorite Food Network chef, Rachael "the queen of quick" Ray. A once......
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February 20, 2008
Lately, you don't need Bloomberg to know where the price of copper is going. Take, for example, John Jobe, a landlord who had a single rental house near UNCG stripped of plumbing pipes, gas lines and air conditioning parts three times in two months. The...
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February 10, 2008
Just hired, the young Vietnamese dishwasher watched the petite, middle-aged woman pull on heavy-duty rubber gloves and start scrubbing the stainless steel kitchen as if her life depended on it. The dishwasher had to ask. "How long have you worked he...
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February 3, 2008
His little grocery on the edge of town was top-of-the-hour news, page one, above the fold. And when a convenience store makes the news, it's never good. In January, police closed off the streets around S&M Market at 4200 N. Church St., evacuated ne...
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January 30, 2008
He thought being arrested and taken downtown would be different. More the way it is on "CSI: Miami." He would be led into a glitzy glass building that looks more like an ad agency than a police station. Then, a sultry-voiced female detective wit...
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January 27, 2008
Most of the neighbors in Kernersville's Abington subdivision got the news from their answering machines. Don't drink the water, warned the automated message last weekend from their community well water provider, unless you boil it first. And though Roy...
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January 19, 2008
Former city police Chief David Wray said he changed the findings of an Internal Affairs report this fall because he believed it incorrectly cleared a high-profile black officer of wrongdoing. Wray , calling his first news conference since resigning 11 day...
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October 3, 2007
GREENSBORO — A former police detective, now under indictment, compared his covert role in former Chief David Wray's administration to "the CIA" in part of a tape recording the City Council released late Tuesday. In one of a stack of Internal Affairs r...
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September 30, 2007
GIBSONVILLE — At least when you rent, you can't lose the roof over your head to a mortgage foreclosure. Can you? Well, that's exactly what is happening to almost two dozen tenants who landed what seemed like a good deal on pre-fab rental homes in a...
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September 19, 2007
Walking up February One Place on Monday morning was a forlorn feeling. More so than usual. It wasn't because of the sight of the unfinished Woolworth's sit-in museum, once our town's claim to fame, now a symbol so polarizing that the City Council felt com...
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September 16, 2007
Dove season opened Labor Day weekend, posing one of those curious dilemmas at the After Hours Veterinary Emergency Clinic. Invariably, a good Samaritan will bring in a wounded dove. In the Golden Book fairy tale version the same book where firefighters s...
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September 12, 2007
Watching him whisk my mother and her luggage along with acrobatic ease, Curtis looks like an airport skycap rushing to a connecting flight. But this is one journey nobody books in advance — from the broken hip ward to the rehab wing. Nor would she h...
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September 5, 2007
No two words in the English language can make people run away faster than "street evangelist." In Couy Griffin's case, however, they stand in line to talk to him. Of course, it's not every day a cowboy with a big white flag rides a quarter horse...
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August 29, 2007
From now on, I've decided to get all my news from around the pool. Take, for instance, a story in this space two Sundays back about the seventh-grade summer reading list at Kernodle Middle School. The list included "The Education of Little Tree,"...
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August 22, 2007
Somebody forgot to teach the Guilford County school board lesson No. 1 in civics class: Don't mess with the Girl Scouts. Consequently, when the board members convene for their next meeting, at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, they may be looking at a sea of gree...
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August 19, 2007
Sometimes, the road to hell is paved with multicultural intentions. Which appears to be the case with a book that was one of two titles on the summer reading list for seventh-graders at Kernodle Middle School. "The Education of Little Tree" soun...
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August 15, 2007
"Congratulations!!!" the July letter began. "You are one of ten people that won a total some (sic) of $180,000 in this years' (sic) Superdraw." That notification from the so-called "Australian Lottery" was followed by phone c...
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"Congratulations!!!" the July letter began. "You are one of ten people that won a total some (sic) of $180,000 in this years' (sic) Superdraw." That notification from the so-called "Australian Lottery" was followed by phone c...
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"Congratulations!!!" the July letter began. "You are one of ten people that won a total some (sic) of $180,000 in this years' (sic) Superdraw." That notification from the so-called "Australian Lottery" was followed by phone c...
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August 5, 2007
GREENSBORO -- Before every Boston Tea Party, every spontaneous uprising, there is always a Stamp Act — one last straw, one final outrage that's too much to swallow. At J&S Farm Stand, John Marshal can no longer count the last straws on both hand...
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GREENSBORO -- Before every Boston Tea Party, every spontaneous uprising, there is always a Stamp Act — one last straw, one final outrage that's too much to swallow. At J&S Farm Stand, John Marshal can no longer count the last straws on both hand...
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August 1, 2007
Today is Aug. 1, and I'm scared. It is one year plus 24 days until the Democratic convention in Denver, and we've already talked about Hillary's cleavage. What do we do now? The sheer horror of this sank in when we switched on CNN the other night and the...
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Today is Aug. 1, and I'm scared. It is one year plus 24 days until the Democratic convention in Denver, and we've already talked about Hillary's cleavage. What do we do now? The sheer horror of this sank in when we switched on CNN the other night and the...
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Today is Aug. 1, and I'm scared. It is one year plus 24 days until the Democratic convention in Denver, and we've already talked about Hillary's cleavage. What do we do now? The sheer horror of this sank in when we switched on CNN the other night and the...
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February 25, 2007
GREENSBORO - "It's amazing what I get paid for," the deputy chief of police said. "Isn't it?" The comment, included in two hours of audio the City Council released Tuesday, came at the end of a conversation about how a detective was to handle a problem th...
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