October 28, 2011
Think you’re cool and collected under pressure? Do co-workers turn to you for leadership? Let’s see how good you are in a really stressful situation – a zombie apocalypse. Take our survival test to find out how you would fare against a h...
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July 10, 2011
MAYODAN - Generations have grown up reading about the day the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb. But it was only recently that Asheboro Airman John McGlohon received credit for taking a photo from his B-29 airplane that showed the huge mushroom cloud ris...
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July 5, 2011
GREENSBORO — When the countdown reached zero, hundreds of percussionists took up a five-minute drum roll Monday morning in pursuit of a world record.
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June 28, 2011
GREENSBORO — Summit House has suspended its residential treatment program, which provided an alternative to prison for women with children.Residents — about a half-dozen women and their children at the Greensboro and Charlotte sites — ha...
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June 25, 2011
GREENSBORO — Despite continually increasing caseloads, judges in Guilford County’s courts have been able to eat away at a backlog, a new report shows. The annual report, released last week, is compiled by Trial Court Administrator Jon Bellows.
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June 17, 2011
GREENSBORO — Dozens of cats found new homes, and dozens more went to foster care after a recent plea from the Guilford County Animal Shelter for help with crowding.
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GREENSBORO — Expect heavy traffic later today along High Point Road as thousands head to the coliseum for SuperJam, the annual multi-act hip-hop concert. SuperJam is expected to draw from 12,000 to 14,000 people to the Greensboro Coliseum.
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June 1, 2011
GREENSBORO — A judge said today she is leaning toward granting an order that would prevent the city from signing a contract to handle household waste.Judge Patrice Hinnant did not make a ruling after a hearing that lasted more than two hours Wednesd...
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May 29, 2011
Meet Thomas Robinson Sharp. You might not recognize the name. It doesn’t carry the weight of say, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. But Sharp, who after the Civil War settled in what is today Eden, also made an impact during the war.
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May 17, 2011
McLeansville residents fighting annexation to Greensboro won another round in court today.A three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court’s earlier decision to nullify a 2009 annexation.
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May 15, 2011
BELEWS LAKE -- When the call came May 2, nearly the entire Greensboro police underwater recovery team responded. Some of the 11 officers were off duty. Others were at their regular stations, most of them as patrol officers. They converged that afternoon o...
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May 6, 2011
GREENSBORO — Police look at patterns to fight crime. But the recent spate of gun violence perplexes them.Other than the rising use of guns, there is no easily discernible pattern, Greensboro police Chief Ken Miller said.“Since about late Janua...
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May 5, 2011
GREENSBORO — Wendy Enochs, who has been a judge since 1994, was named this week as the new chief judge for Guilford County District Court.Enochs, 44, replaces Joseph E. Turner, who this afternoon will be sworn in as a Superior Court judge for Guilfo...
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May 3, 2011
GREENSBORO — Two dates, nearly 10 years apart, have left an indelible mark on the family of Sandy Bradshaw .On May 1, 2011, U.S. soldiers killed the man who took the life of their mother, wife and daughter on the other day they will never forget: Se...
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April 28, 2011
GREENSBORO — In the past three years, North Carolina has seen a 260 percent increase in the number of human trafficking victims, according to the North Carolina Coalition Against Human Trafficking.
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April 26, 2011
GREENSBORO -- The final federal report on health problems at Oak Ridge Elementary School offers several recommendations to avoid future issues.
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April 23, 2011
Going to court could take longer and cost more under proposals being considered as North Carolina seeks to balance its budget. A House subcommittee wants to eliminate the state’s trial court administrators and cut positions such as investigators and...
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April 19, 2011
GREENSBORO — A Greensboro man will spend more than 10 years in prison for running over and shooting a police officer during a chase and shootout after a bank robbery in 2009.
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April 17, 2011
MADISON — Every year, Rockingham County residents get a free one-week pass to dump waste at the landfill. This year’s free cleanup week ended Saturday. And as they have every year, residents responded, tossing tires and chucking old furniture...
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April 1, 2011
Friday update: High Point police identified the pilot of the plane as 50-year-old Marcia Salmons-Keaton of Fuquay-Varina.Here's the story that appeared in today's News & Record:
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March 31, 2011
GREENSBORO — Building community gardens provided access to fresh food in Guilford County, and promoting parks got more people moving in Alamance County. But did those efforts make the counties healthier? Yes and no, according to a new report release...
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March 30, 2011
HIGH POINT — They could have been students, the way they jumped at the chance to use the latest iPod touch and free programs such as Animoto to create video presentations. But the six visitors from the Republic of Georgia are teachers and administr...
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March 29, 2011
GREENSBORO — A second man has been sent to prison for his part in a 2008 rape where a woman was shot in the eye with a BB gun and set on fire. She survived.
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March 26, 2011
GREENSBORO — As a cardiologist, Dr. Henry “Hank” Smith sees areas every day where the 1950s-era Moses Cone Hospital could improve. Take the emergency room, which, despite multiple upgrades over the years, is too small for patients&rsquo...
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March 22, 2011
GREENSBORO — Jurors sent a Greensboro man to death row Tuesday for killing a mother after raping her in front of her children in 2006.
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