December 10, 2010
GREENSBORO - Tackling the problem of gangs will require the effort of parents, schools, police and various community organizations working together, according to a recent study by UNCG researchers. The Guilford County Gang Assessment, the first comprehens...
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December 7, 2010
GREENSBORO — Two teenagers were taken to the hospital after crashing a stolen SUV during a pursuit this morning, police said. The incident began Tuesday morning when a 1997 Ford Expedition was stolen from a home on Triston Drive after the owner star...
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December 6, 2010
Sebastain Mingo, 46, is wanted by Greensboro police on charges of assault and fleeing to elude arrest. On Nov. 2, officers attempted a traffic stop on a van on Tuscaloosa Street. The van failed to stop and officers gave chase.
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December 4, 2010
GREENSBORO — Greensboro police are considering ideas to improve safety at nightclubs throughout the city in light of violent incidents in the past several weeks. Police leaders say their recommendations, which will be made to the City Council, are n...
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December 2, 2010
GREENSBORO — Gauging the effect of a new ban on Internet-based sweepstakes games that mimic gambling was itself a dicey business Wednesday.Depending on where players looked, they found retailers that were open and serving customers, while others wer...
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November 30, 2010
GREENSBORO — Investigators are asking for tips in solving the murder of an 18-year-old Virginia woman who was gunned down outside a local nightclub early Sunday. Greensboro police say leads are scarce in solving the killing of Lacqueon “Bria&r...
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GREENSBORO — The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office is advising residents to be aware of a scam related to door-to-door solicitors.On Monday, deputies received a report of a door-to-door solicitor in the Brightwood Farms area requesting donation...
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November 29, 2010
GREENSBORO — Around 50 Christmas trees were damaged Sunday as vandals ransacked a tree lot and cost a local family thousands in profit. Sometime early Sunday, someone vandalized Bruce Wagoner’s Christmas and Evergreens, located at 1601 Westove...
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November 24, 2010
GREENSBORO — A 34-year-old man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the killing of a man found dead inside a Yanceyville Street home on Tuesday afternoon.
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November 22, 2010
GREENSBORO – Five Page High School students were arrested after they attacked another student inside a restroom last week, police said. Greensboro police Lt. Hope Newkirk said the assault happened after school Wednesday in a boys’ restroom at...
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November 19, 2010
GREENSBORO – A woman convicted in the 2009 hit-and-run killing of a Summerfield bicyclist has been ordered to report to prison on Nov. 29. Grayson Warren Dawson, 49, of Eden, was convicted in August on charges of felony hit-and-run, misdemeanor deat...
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GREENSBORO — A convicted sex offender wanted in Randolph County was arrested Wednesday in Kentucky where he was living under an assumed name, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.Raymond T. Gallagher, 56, of Greensboro, was arrested near Louisvill...
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November 18, 2010
GREENSBORO — Five area pastors pleaded no contest to charges of disorderly conduct Thursday following their May arrest for blocking the entrance to police headquarters during a protest. The Revs. Nelson Johnson, Cardes Brown, Gregory Headen, Joseph...
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GREENSBORO — A new late-night curfew banning teenagers from downtown came as a result of feedback from area business owners that loitering youth have been driving customers away — not because they were committing crimes, city officials s...
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November 17, 2010
GREENSBORO — The city adopted a curfew Tuesday night prohibiting anyone younger than 18 from being downtown without an adult, as well as stronger ordinances against loitering.City Council members voted to approve the curfew ordinance 6-3. Council me...
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November 16, 2010
GREENSBORO — Police are continuing their investigation into a shooting at a strip club earlier this month, and they have filed charges against the former manager, who they say refused to help the victim, mopped up the crime scene and refused to coop...
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GREENSBORO – The city adopted a curfew Tuesday night prohibiting anyone from 18 from being in the downtown district beginning Jan. 1 without a guardian or other responsible party. City Council members voted to approve the ordinance by a vote of 6 to...
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November 12, 2010
GREENSBORO — Police have arrested a Greensboro man in connection with a shooting outside the LAX Gentleman’s Club that left a man hospitalized in critical condition.
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GREENSBORO — Proposals to create a safer downtown at night are being met with mixed reactions from business owners, some of whom feel they are being unfairly punished with restrictions that could drive business away.Other business leaders, who helpe...
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November 10, 2010
GREENSBORO — City leaders said Wednesday morning that they are working on several new ordinances and changes to improve public safety downtown on the heels of a shooting incident two weeks ago that left five people injured.
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November 9, 2010
GREENSBORO — One of the city’s most popular downtown nightclubs is changing names and formats on the heels of a shooting two weeks ago that left five people injured.Rocco Scarfone, owner of the N Club at 117 S. Elm St., said Monday that the ve...
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November 2, 2010
GREENSBORO — BJ Barnes won his fifth term as Guilford County’s sheriff on Tuesday night, beating his longtime friend Phil Wadsworth by a large margin, according to unofficial election results.
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October 30, 2010
GREENSBORO — Police said downtown cameras installed earlier this year were of no help in capturing images of Thursday morning’s shooting.
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October 29, 2010
GREENSBORO – Less than 24 hours after police said a man shot four people before being shot by a police officer downtown, another man was arrested Friday morning after police said he threatened a group of people with a handgun.
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GREENSBORO – A man was arrested Thursday after police said he interfered with their investigation of the downtown shooting. Brandon Antwan Washington, 28, of 1716 Grant Ave. in Winston-Salem was charged with one count of resisting a public officer.
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