June 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — As the sun set over western Greensboro Friday evening, more than 50 people lined the sidewalks in front of Guilford College to be a silent voice for Iranians. They waved the Iranian flag, held up slogan-laden posterboards in support of...
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June 22, 2009
GREENSBORO — A full-scale search for a missing 5-year-old girl ended uneventfully Monday evening when the girl turned up with her mother, who was out running errands. Officials with Greensboro police, fire and the Guilford County Sheriff’s Off...
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June 19, 2009
TROY — Nine boys with a church group from Raleigh were rescued from the Uwharrie River in Montgomery County on Thursday after multiple boats became separated during a paddling trip. The boys, ages 10 to 12, were rescued after a three-hour operation...
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June 18, 2009
GREENSBORO — A Greensboro man denied in court this afternoon that he killed a grocery store owner during a November 2008 robbery.“I’m not guilty,” Charles Antoine McKenzie, 36, said at a 2 p.m. arraignment when a judge asked if he...
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June 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — It’s a situation police see all too often when responding to domestic violence calls: a crying child, a little boy or girl scared of the police and what might happen to one of their parents. “They are raised to believe polic...
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June 11, 2009
HIGH POINT — James McConico Jr. had his chances.Drugs, weapons, robberies, assaults, kidnappings, sex offenses, resisting arrest and more — he had been arrested 33 times by High Point police in recent years in connection with various crimes in...
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June 9, 2009
GREENSBORO – The Greensboro Police Department has been awarded a $950,000 grant from the U.S. Justice Department. The money, which comes from the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant, will be put toward equipping 30 new police officers the department hope...
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GREENSBORO — Authorities are speculating that an Oak Ridge man reported missing last week may have fled the area to avoid questioning in a criminal investigation.Jason “Jake” Paul Aton, 32, of 2874 Oak Ridge Road, was found alive late Mo...
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June 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — Friends of an Oak Ridge man missing since Monday are desperately searching for him.Jason “Jake” Paul Aton, 32, has been missing since at least Monday when friends said he failed to show up for work at the Food Lion at 3516 D...
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GREENSBORO — The mother of a woman who drowned in a rain-swollen McLeansville creek during Wednesday night’s storms believes her daughter might have been trying to retrieve her moped. Roseanne Marie Minton Tippett, 50, of 7695 N.C. 61 North in...
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GREENSBORO — A woman attempting to avoid a state trooper drowned Wednesday night after apparently jumping into a rain-swollen creek near Northeast Middle School, officials said.As a thunderstorm pounded the area, a trooper was stopping traffic in th...
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June 3, 2009
GREENSBORO — The brother of police Officer A.J. Blake and the leader of the local chapter of the NAACP said Tuesday that Councilman Mike Barber made Blake an implied offer to get assault charges against him dismissed in exchange for removing his nam...
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June 1, 2009
GREENSBORO — A black police officer suing the city for discrimination is expected to claim that a City Council member promised to get criminal charges against him dismissed if he dropped his lawsuit. Officer A.J. Blake has scheduled a news conferenc...
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May 28, 2009
GREENSBORO – Police on Wednesday released the identity of a woman whose body was found Monday morning outside a Greensboro apartment complex. The woman was identified as Angela Marie “Crystal” Woodard, 34, according to police.
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May 27, 2009
GREENSBORO — A veteran police officer who gave 31 years of service to residents of Greensboro will be buried today. Former Police Chief Conrad D. “Connie” Wade, 77, died early Monday after a series of long-term health issues. Wade joined...
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GREENSBORO – The death of a woman whose body was found outside a Greensboro apartment complex Monday morning has been ruled a homicide, police said Tuesday evening.
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May 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — The surviving suspect in a Feb. 9 bank robbery and subsequent shootout with police could be transferred back to Guilford County in the coming weeks, a police official said Wednesday. Christopher O’Neal Patterson, 23, has been in t...
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GREENSBORO — Two carjacking suspects are in jail after a high-speed police chase Tuesday afternoon that ended with a crash on Gillespie Street. Police Lt. Dennis Willoughby said the crime began at 2:56 p.m. at the Relax Inn, 1747 McKnight Mill...
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May 15, 2009
GREENSBORO — Eight police officers involved in a Feb. 9 car chase and ensuing gun battle with two bank robbery suspects along Patterson Street were among those receiving top honors the Greensboro Police and Citizens Award banquet Thursday night. Tha...
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May 14, 2009
HIGH POINT — Felipe and Maria Maldonado came to the United States 12 years ago to live their dream. They fled their native Mexico and lived their first weeks stateside in a van in Arizona before being lured to North Carolina, where they found jobs a...
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May 13, 2009
HIGH POINT — Felipe and Maria Maldonado came to America 12 years ago to live their dream. They fled their native Mexico and lived their first weeks stateside in a van in Arizona before being lured to North Carolina, where they found jobs and started...
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May 11, 2009
GREENSBORO – Four people at two area businesses have been arrested following an investigation regarding the sale and possession of alleged stolen property. Following a 14-month investigation, officers arrested two employees of N.C. Tobacco at 1000 S...
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GREENSBORO – A Guilford County School bus and a pickup collided head on Monday afternoon along White Street sending multiple people to the hospital.The crash happened just after 3 p.m. near the intersection of Partnership Court.Police said the drive...
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May 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — Test results for a UNCG student who had been placed under quarantine at Moses Cone Hospital came back negative for the H1N1 virus late Thursday. Following a campus-wide alert put out by Chancellor Linda Brady just after 5 p.m. Thursday...
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May 6, 2009
Police will launch a focused 11-point strategic plan to reduce crime in the Randleman Road area and evaluate its results before moving forward with any plans to shut down a strip club there, officials announced Tuesday.
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