August 31, 2009
GREENSBORO — Guilford County Sheriff BJ Barnes said Monday that he intends to run for re-election in 2010 with the hope of overseeing a smooth transition to the new downtown jail. “I plan on running and seeing the jail finished if the citizens...
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GREENSBORO — The death of an inmate two weeks ago at the Guilford County jail downtown has renewed concerns among prisoner advocates over safety at the jail. Lawyers with N.C. Prisoner Legal Services, a Raleigh-based firm that lobbies for the civil...
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August 27, 2009
ARCHDALE — Police radio recordings from the fatal shooting early Sunday of a UNC-Chapel Hill student along Interstate 85 indicate the student was getting back in his SUV seconds before an officer shot him.But neither the recordings released Thursday...
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GREENSBORO — A UNC-Chapel Hill student told a 911 dispatcher he was suicidal, armed with a pistol and driving drunk at speeds up to 110 mph early Sunday before he was shot and killed by an Archdale police officer on Interstate 85.But it remains uncl...
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GREENSBORO — With the sun blazing and temperatures soaring toward 90 degrees, county emergency officials spent Wednesday dealing with a massive ice storm. A widespread power outage forced High Point Regional Hospital to resort to a backup generator.
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August 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — With the sun blazing across Guilford County and temperatures soaring into the low 90s, county emergency officials spent Wednesday dealing with a massive ice storm. A mass power outage forced High Point Regional Hospital to resort to a b...
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August 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — Police are preparing to keep the city peaceful this Saturday when a regional meeting of the nation’s largest neo-Nazi group is held here. Faith leaders are calling for inclusiveness and respect. The National Socialist Movement wil...
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August 24, 2009
ARCHDALE — Students at UNC-Chapel Hill return to class today grieving the loss of a fellow student who was shot and killed early Sunday by an Archdale police officer. Courtland Benjamin Smith, 21, of Houston, Texas, died at High Point Regional Hospi...
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August 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — A mixed-breed pit bull puppy is fighting for her life after being found severely burned Thursday morning at a south Greensboro park, where officials believe she had been suffering at least two weeks. Authorities are looking for suspects...
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August 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — A grand jury has returned a seven-count indictment against the surviving suspect from the Feb. 9 bank robbery and shootout with Greensboro police. Christopher O’Neal Patterson, 23, was indicted Monday by a Guilford County grand ju...
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GREENSBORO – A former assistant baseball coach and first baseman at Wake Forest University was arrested Tuesday night on charges he solicited a child by computer for sexual activity. Jon Edward Palmieri, 32, of 809 Bellview St. in Winston-Salem was...
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GREENSBORO — An inmate died at Moses Cone Hospital late Tuesday after a scuffle with a detention officer at the downtown jail in Greensboro, according to the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office.Ronald Eugene Cobbs, 38, of 1406 Hamlet Place, died...
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August 19, 2009
GREENSBORO — Fire Chief Gregory Grayson remembers sitting inside an emergency command center June 3 in complete awe of what he was seeing. He had been on the job for just over a week, and that night the city was experiencing some of the worst floodi...
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August 18, 2009
GREENSBORO — One of four people charged in the November 2006 killing of a Greensboro convenience store clerk pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder. Arthur Lecose Burton III, 21, of Elon will spend the next 21 to 23 years in state prison for...
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August 16, 2009
GREENSBORO — About a year ago, Margaret Lowe found one of the happiest days in her life had become one of the scariest. She had given birth to her first son, Thomas — 10 weeks premature and weighing slightly more than 2 pounds. With respirator...
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GREENSBORO — Greensboro police are preparing for the possibility that a meeting of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement could be held in the city later this month. The NSM, a group which describes itself as “defending the rights of white p...
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August 15, 2009
GREENSBORO — A High Point man who plotted to kill his wife was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday afternoon even though his wife testified that she has forgiven him. Sabbir Hussain Shah, 56, was given the maximum sentence on a charge of using...
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GREENSBORO — Greensboro police are preparing for the possibility that a meeting of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement could be held in the city later this month. The NSM, a group which describes itself as “defending the rights of white p...
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August 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — The business of protecting and serving is gradually becoming one that looks to be conserving. Area law enforcement agencies, along with their counterparts in fire and emergency medical services, are doing what they can to conserve fuel...
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August 12, 2009
GREENSBORO — Reports of crime across North Carolina fell by 2.2 percent in 2008 while violent crime dropped by 1.3 percent, Attorney General Roy Cooper said Wednesday. In Greensboro, the overall crime index in 2008 increased by 5 percent compared wi...
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August 11, 2009
GREENSBORO — Former Greensboro Deputy Police Chief Randall Brady is asking for a judge to determine whether the N.C. Private Protective Services Board should be bound to investigate his allegations that Risk Management Associates made false statemen...
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August 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — The sister of a Caswell County man who was killed and left floating in Hyco Lake in eastern Caswell County is turning to Triad residents for help in finding out what happened to her brother.Robert Allen Michalec, 47, of Leasburg......
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August 9, 2009
ASHEBORO — Amid the intensity of launching airstrikes from the USS Saratoga on Jan. 17, 1991, David Sagers remembers two FA-18 Hornet fighter jets landing aboard the aircraft carrier docked in the Red Sea. “He went down in a ball of flam...
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August 5, 2009
GREENSBORO — The Boys & Girls Club at Hickory Trails apartment complex has moved temporarily as police investigate the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy. Police have stepped up patrols in the neighborhood. The club notified parents Tuesday tha...
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August 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — Police Chief Tim Bellamy said Monday that he stands behind the actions of his officers in the arrest of City Council candidate and gang leader Jorge Cornell over the weekend. Friends and supporters of Cornell told City Council on Monday...
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