August 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — A 16-year-old boy was gunned down midday Tuesday in a shooting that police believe may be connected to rivalry among teenagers. Breyon Shon Deese was found shot to death about noon on a pedestrian bridge that connects two sections of th...
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August 3, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM — The surviving suspect in a Feb. 9 bank robbery and subsequent shootout with Greensboro police pleaded not guilty to multiple charges in federal court Monday. Christopher O’Neal Patterson, 23, pleaded not guilty to two charges...
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August 1, 2009
GREENSBORO — On a cool crisp evening on Oct. 27, 1980 , Talmadge Varner was walking in the 300 block of North Greene Street as darkness fell upon downtown. As he had for more than 30 years, Varner was selling copies of The Greensboro Record to busin...
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July 31, 2009
GREENSBORO — On a cool crisp evening on Oct. 27, 1980, Talmadge Varner was walking in the 300 block of North Greene Street as darkness fell on downtown.As he had for more than 30 years, Varner was working to make his living selling copies of The Gre...
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July 30, 2009
GREENSBORO — After a two-day trial and a saga that left him suspended for more than six months, police officer A.J. Blake has been cleared of charges he assaulted two women. A six-man, six-woman jury in Guilford County Superior Court on Wednesday fo...
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July 29, 2009
YANCEYVILLE — Somewhere beyond the rows of tobacco and miles of country road that cross Caswell County, federal officials believe at least three terror suspects were preparing to launch attacks overseas.Federal officials arrested and indicted seven...
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July 27, 2009
GREENSBORO — A downtown nightclub that was the site of a homicide last week has had its application for a permanent liquor license denied by the N.C. ABC Commission. Club Rain at 219 W. Lewis St. was denied its application to serve alcohol in a noti...
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July 24, 2009
GREENSBORO — A judge issued a bond Friday afternoon for a man accused in a fatal shooting Thursday after his attorney contested the killing was in self-defense. Chief District Court Judge Joseph E. Turner set a $200,000 bond for Edward Sherron Carte...
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July 23, 2009
GREENSBORO — A man was arrested early Thursday in a shooting death on Caldwell Street, and a woman is charged with hiding him and punching an officer, police said.Edward Sherron Carter Jr., 21, of 911 Caldwell St. was charged with first-degree murde...
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July 22, 2009
GREENSBORO — Once in a while, Yolanda Morrison would get a phone call from her big brother after he moved to Greensboro 10 years ago. A quick hello. A short “I love you,” and then Rufus Morrison III would ask about his four children back...
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July 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — Cathy left her home in the middle of the afternoon on a warm March day to make the quick trip to pick up her daughter from preschool. She checked all the doors and windows before she headed out to make sure they were secure. With the cl...
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GREENSBORO — Police continued to work late Monday to confirm the identity of a man shot to death earlier in the day outside a downtown club.Emergency officials found the man lying in the parking lot at Club Rain, 219 W. Lewis St., police Capt. Janic...
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July 17, 2009
Editor's note: The headline in today's print edition and in an earlier online version of this story were incorrect. The money raised will assist the officer's family until he can return to duty. We regret any confusion this may have created. GREENSBORO......
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July 16, 2009
GREENSBORO — A 71-year-old man was arrested and charged Wednesday in connection with a fatal 2002 car crash on Interstate 40.Plak Kpa was arrested by police in connection with the Oct. 12, 2002 death of 57-year-old Landis Grey Faulkner after reporte...
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July 15, 2009
GREENSBORO — A paving contractor accused last year of deceiving local residents into expensive driveway projects has re-emerged using similar techniques in Myrtle Beach, officials there say. Tommy Edward Clack, 37, who operated the driveway paving b...
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GREENSBORO — Police are seeking multiple suspects in a elaborate counterfeit check ring that, so far, has led to six arrests and the loss of $50,000 to local businesses.The alleged ring leader — Tony LaMont Harris, 40 — was arrested July...
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July 14, 2009
GREENSBORO — Retirement never really suited Tommy Martin. The veteran police officer retired in 2002 from the Illinois State Police and for two years, the coffee with his buddies just wasn’t cutting it. He still had the itch to don the badge a...
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July 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — An Oak Ridge man who disappeared for more than a week in early June now faces charges in the theft of more than $9,000 in lottery tickets from the grocery he managed. Jason “Jake” Paul Aton, 32, of 2874 Oak Ridge Road, was c...
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GREENSBORO — The surviving suspect from a Feb. 9 bank robbery and subsequent shoot-out with Greensboro police has been transferred to Guilford County while he awaits trial. Christopher O’Neal Patterson, 23, was booked into the High Point jail...
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July 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — The fleet of unmarked sport utility vehicles pulled up to a house on Timberlane Drive in Asheboro on the morning of June 23. Several Greensboro police officers, an Alamance County deputy and two deputy U.S. marshals headed for the front...
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July 2, 2009
GREENSBORO – The Greensboro-Guilford County Crime Stoppers program has been nominated for the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award. The award honors individuals and organizations for their efforts in combating crime, terrorism, drugs and...
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GREENSBORO — For the second time in as many days, someone reported a black bear sighting in southeast Guilford County. About 8:40 p.m. Wednesday, Cle Johnson of 1111 Wiley Lewis Road was out watering her flowers when she got the shock of her life.
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June 30, 2009
GREENSBORO — Two and a half weeks into a cross-country road trip, British blogger Geoff Marshall says he’s seen some of the best things that America has to offer. But it took only one night in Greensboro to open his eyes to the ugly side. Some...
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June 29, 2009
GREENSBORO – One man is undergoing surgery this evening at Moses Cone Hospital after being shot along Erwin Street.
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James Inman, 20, is wanted by Greensboro police on charges of possession of marijuana and resisting arrest. Officers say on Nov. 29, 2007, they were doing surveillance on three men outside the Carolina Super Mart at 2004 Randleman Road. The suspects appro...
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