June 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — At 5:49 a.m. on April 19, 2008, Greensboro police officer Christopher Schultheis set about securing a crime scene unlike any in his 10 years on the job. The 22-year-old victim lay on the street, bleeding from 10 bullet wounds. His girlf...
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May 9, 2009
Every 4th of July (and a few days around then), we have neighbors who set off extremely loud fireworks. It’s of major concern because of the effect on our dogs, who are distressed by the percussion. (We used to have a dog who had seizures when the l...
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May 4, 2009
* Ryan Steven Amaral, 23, is wanted by Greensboro police on felony charges of maintaining a dwelling used for keeping or selling a controlled substance. According to police, Amaral took photos of marijuana plants and people smoking marijuana to a CVS drug...
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May 1, 2009
GREENSBORO — A Hairston Middle School student struck and killed by a train Thursday was remembered as a quiet, funny young man, according to his classmates.Cristian Bryan Ayala-Martinez, 13, was a seventh-grader at the Greensboro school, police said...
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April 29, 2009
GREENSBORO — Charges have been dismissed against two Mendenhall Middle School teachers who were charged with assault after police say the women fought with each other in a classroom in February. Catherine Hazelton, 40, of Greensboro, and Calandra Mc...
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April 28, 2009
GREENSBORO — An 18-year-old accused of shooting a man during an argument over a drug transaction pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Tuesday, avoiding the possibility of spending his life in prison. Rashawd Terrell Welch also pleaded guilty in Gu...
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April 24, 2009
HIGH POINT — Police have charged a man with driving while impaired and felony hit and run in connection with a wreck Thursday evening that killed a woman and injured eight other people. Police on Friday identified the victim who died as Maria...
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April 23, 2009
GREENSBORO — During a typical after-work rush, the Hayes-Taylor YMCA parking lot downtown gets stacked up with cars waiting for spots. The facility’s one multipurpose room holds an aerobics class, and adults and children share one basketball c...
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April 22, 2009
GREENSBORO — As the city considers budget reductions for next year, a group of homeless people and advocates are asking that the budget not be balanced at the expense of services for the poor. About half a dozen people brought their pleas directly t...
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April 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — A group of homeless people is planning to march to tonight’s City Council meeting and use the meeting’s public comment time to encourage the council to continue to fund services that benefit the homeless. “Traditionall...
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April 14, 2009
GREENSBORO — A man facing four felony charges in connection with an embezzlement scheme that police say stole $400,000 from the estate of a Greensboro woman is a retired professor who has been a civil rights leader for 40 years. Claude Barnes, 57, w...
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April 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — Two former Grimsley High School students have been charged with 11 crimes each — including two felonies — in connection with vandalism and break-ins discovered at the school on Monday, according to police. Police declined to...
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April 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — Police department administrators hope that federal stimulus money could shrink the lag time between the departure of officers and the day their replacements hit the streets. A grant awarded under the federal economic stimulus package co...
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April 6, 2009
GREENSBORO – Someone painted initials and profanity directed at police on four school buses at Grimsley High School, the school resource officer’s patrol car, the main school building and annex buildings, according to police and school officia...
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April 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — First, a length of explosive detonation cord burned through a piece of plywood. A minute later, a pound of C-4 plastic explosive threw dirt yards into the air. Another minute passed and a pound of dynamite exploded, then a pound of ammo...
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April 3, 2009
RALEIGH — On the same day the House voted to ban smoking in most public places, Amanda Miller was having lunch at Ham’s on Friendly Avenue and was not pleased legislators want to keep her from lighting up. “If you don’t want to sme...
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March 31, 2009
GREENSBORO — A teenager hit by a car on Dec. 30 died from his injuries on Saturday, according to police. Damien Mebane, 16, was leaving the Lil Wayne concert at the Greensboro Coliseum shortly after midnight when he was struck by a 1995 Buick Regal...
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March 30, 2009
WHITSETT — The man police have charged with killing store owner Bobby Lee Taylor is a family acquaintance who frequented the store for years, Taylor’s wife said Monday.Shirley Taylor, working Monday at the store just off N.C. 61, said she had...
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March 27, 2009
GREENSBORO — Two men dressed as Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers robbed three people in a West Avenue home Thursday night, first requesting identification from the apartment’s Hispanic occupants, then emptying their wallets. Polic...
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March 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — Four-year-old Kalli Martin’s two adult caretakers were charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in connection with her death on March 18.Kalli’s cousin, Tonya Dobson Williams, 38, and Williams’ fiance, Anthony Ravon...
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March 25, 2009
McLEANSVILLE — A man serving a sentence at the Guilford Correctional Center, a minimum-security prison, is wanted on a charge of escaping from state prison after he walked away from his work-release assignment on March 13.
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March 24, 2009
GREENSBORO — Herb Hendrickson is, finally, the final member of an elected board to take his seat, after the man who won the most votes in November’s election never claimed the position. The state Soil and Water Conservation Commission approved...
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March 21, 2009
A Greensboro police officer was found guilty of two counts of assault on a female Friday in Guilford County District Court.In delivering his verdict, Chief District Court Judge Joseph Turner said he also was disappointed in the police leaders at the party...
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March 18, 2009
GREENSBORO — The state Court of Appeals has upheld a 2007 murder conviction against a Greensboro man. According to a decision filed Tuesday, the court sided with Guilford County Superior Court Judge Stuart Albright that Khalil Jacobs is guilty of mu...
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GREENSBORO — Guilford County’s chief district court judge is warning that state budget shortfalls may force the cancellation of a session of civil court each week. In a letter sent to attorneys Monday, Judge Joseph Turner warned that cases wil...
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