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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May 2, 2009
Are city employees, including police officers and firefighters, subject to random drug testing? If so, why don’t we hear about employees losing their jobs in the news? In some cases, many of these individuals are still able to work with and or coach...
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April 30, 2009
GREENSBORO — Police are reminding residents to remain on high alert and use sound judgement following a recent increase in reports of mail and Internet scams in the Triad. One of the major scams that is increasingly targeting elderly residents are l...
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GREENSBORO – A Greensboro homeowner opened fire on a man who broke into his residence Thursday morning. At 10:30 a.m., police officers received a call of a break-in in progress at 3984 Pelham Drive, said police Lt. Hope Newkirk.
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April 29, 2009
GREENSBORO — Police are looking for two people including a teenager who unleashed a hail of gunfire into a Greensboro man’s home Monday evening, leaving his residence and multiple vehicles riddled with bullet holes.The shooting happened just a...
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April 28, 2009
GREENSBORO — A weekend police check of area nightclubs led to 17 security guards being charged with operating without proper licenses. Police targeted six clubs as part of a routine inspection to ensure bouncers have the proper requirements to work...
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April 27, 2009
GREENSBORO — A weekend police check of area nightclubs led to 17 security guards being charged with operating without proper licenses. Police targeted six clubs as part of a routine inspection to ensure bouncers have the proper requirements to work...
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April 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — Nearly 19 years ago, the quiet woods behind Jones Elementary School became the scene of one of the city’s most horrific unsolved murders. It was there, among the beer bottles, trash, weeds and fallen trees that 7-year-old Shalonda...
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April 24, 2009
GREENSBORO — The debate on the future of a strip club targeted by police for closure under nuisance abatement laws is likely to come before the City Council in May. Sugar Bare Lost Dimensions at 510 Farragut St. reappeared on the city’s radar...
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PLEASANT GARDEN — A two-alarm fire destroyed a home near Pleasant Garden Friday evening. The fire at 5010 Mallard Lake Drive broke out shortly after 9 p.m. When firefighters arrived a few minutes later, flames were already shooting out of the...
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April 23, 2009
GREENSBORO — The debate on the future of a local strip club targeted by police for closure under nuisance abatement laws likely will come before the City Council sometime in May. Sugar Bare Lost Dimensions at 510 Farragut St. reappeared on the city......
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GREENSBORO — Two schools locked their doors as a precautionary measure Wednesday afternoon as police looked nearby for a man with a weapon.The incident began about 2:30 p.m. when Officer A.B. Edwards Jr., the school resource officer at Page High Sch...
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April 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — Police said today that they are investigating three sexual assault cases that occurred in one part of the city during the past seven months.
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April 17, 2009
GREENSBORO — The man accused in a series of sexual assaults and burglaries near the UNCG campus pleaded guilty in Guilford County Superior Court on Thursday and will serve a minimum of 35 years in state prison. Anthony Jermaine Powell, 38, pleaded...
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April 16, 2009
GREENSBORO — More charges were filed Thursday against two people accused of murder in the March death of a 4-year-old girl in their care. Tonya Dobson Williams and her fiancée, Anthony Ravon Duncan, both of 1405 Caldwell St., are each facing...
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April 14, 2009
GREENSBORO – More charges were filed Tuesday against a Greensboro man accused of several break-ins of homes in the Irving Park neighborhood that police say resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in property. Stephen Neal Trotter Jr...
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GREENSBORO — A strip club that has remained on the city’s radar for possible seizure under the state’s nuisance abatement law is being looked at again after a weekend homicide. Police said they are in the early stages of examining crimin...
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April 11, 2009
GREENSBORO - Taxpayers with plans to mail their tax returns at the post office after 5 p.m. Wednesday need to bring along their patience and a credit or debit card, postal officials say. Last-minute tax filers won’t be met by area postal service wor...
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KERNERSVILLE — At the entrance of the Kernersville Police Department is a statue of a smiling boy holding the hand of a police officer. Inscribed on that statue is a phrase Chief Grady “Neal” Stockton coined 15 years ago: “To wear...
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April 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — Four people have been arrested and charged in what police described as an elaborate fraud and embezzlement scheme that stole an estimated $400,000 from the estate of a Greensboro woman who died in October. The investigation centered on...
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GREENSBORO – A Greensboro man was arrested last week and charged with stealing hundreds-of-thousands of dollars of property from several Greensboro homes. Police arrested Stephen Neal Trotter Jr., 35, of 3802 Kirby Drive on April 3 in connection wit...
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JULIAN — A Trinity woman was killed Wednesday afternoon in a head-on collision near Julian. Jean Cunningham Ross, 63, of 3879 Rock Dam Court, died in the collision that happened just after 5 p.m. in the 6200-block of N.C. 62, according to Trooper T.
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April 7, 2009
GREENSBORO – A man convicted of second-degree murder in the death of an elderly Greensboro woman in 1977 has been granted parole, according to the state. Tony Len Cox, 47, was approved for parole April 1 after 31 years in prison for the death of 86......
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April 3, 2009
GREENSBORO – A teenager was arrested and charged Friday mere hours after police said he robbed and stabbed a man in a southwest Greensboro home. Police responded to 1812 Willomore St. at 7:40 p.m. to find 32-year-old Dexter Mills with stab wounds to...
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