January 31, 2012
GREENSBORO — When Dorothy Brown returned to Greensboro in 1978 to help take care of her ailing mother, she got a shock on the way from the airport. A drug dealer approached her car as she traveled down McConnell Road and through the area known as &l...
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January 22, 2012
GREENSBORO — A walkthrough of the expanded Cone Health Cancer Center evokes a Letterman-esque top 10 list of sorts. The Top 10 Really Cool Strikes Against Cancer — as imagined by doctors and social workers in a community hospital setting?
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December 23, 2011
GREENSBORO — When Landis Cox Best moved three doors down from Corinne Stickley in Irving Park in fifth grade, she met one of her best friends for life.“She was a lot of fun — full of life, full of energy,” said Best, now a New York...
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December 14, 2011
GREENSBORO — The Greensboro Police Department said late Tuesday that it handled extradition orders appropriately in arrest warrants for a man who left jail twice in New York City, despite being wanted in a Greensboro shooting. That man, 27-year-old...
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November 3, 2011
GREENSBORO — Not only does Cone Health provide much of the community’s healthcare, but it also is the area’s largest private employer, according to an economic report released this morning.
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November 1, 2011
GREENSBORO — When the winter emergency — WE — shelters open this year, two of the eight sites will focus on veterans and the chronically homeless suffering from substance abuse or mental illness. Services for women will be consolidated a...
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October 31, 2011
GREENSBORO — When the president slept overnight at the Proximity Hotel, drawing Occupy Greensboro protesters and stopping traffic outside the country’s greenest hotel, Dennis Quaintance went into overtime thinking of the others. That would be...
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October 17, 2011
GREENSBORO — A new phone scam going around tries to leverage your personal information by telling people there's an arrest warrant out for them for missing jury duty.
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September 23, 2011
GREENSBORO -- Emergency officials were responding to several downed tree calls around the city this morning, and nearly two dozen minor car accidents related to the heavy downpour of rain, according to Greensboro Police.
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GREENSBORO — The winter emergency — or WE — network of seasonal shelters for the homeless will expand this year to include the downtown YWCA building as a consolidated women-only site. The spaces in the existing locations will be assigne...
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September 14, 2011
GREENSBORO — First Citizens Bank plans to move its local corporate offices from downtown to a building under construction off Battleground Avenue by next August.
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August 23, 2011
GREENSBORO — Add another voice — and vote — to the brouhaha over reopening the White Street Landfill.City Councilwoman Nancy Vaughan, who previously abstained from voting because of a conflict of interest, plans to be a part of the ensui...
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GREENSBORO — Hurricane Irene is already trending topic No. 1 among the state’s meteorologists.“There is some uncertainty in the track, but it’s coming,” said Shawna Cokley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in...
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August 13, 2011
N.C. A&T Chancellor Harold Martin reminded faculty and staff Friday of their response two years ago as the newly arrived campus leader asked whether they wanted to maintain the status quo in terms of competing with peers at other schools.
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August 12, 2011
Want to know more about the Baha’i faith? New to Greensboro and looking for a Lutheran church? Hundreds of local religious institutions add to the diversity of the Piedmont Triad.
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August 5, 2011
GREENSBORO — Just a few weeks before those big yellow school buses start rolling out en masse, several giveaways have been announced to help parents with back-to-school supplies. The supplies are usually being given out on a first-come, first-serve...
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July 22, 2011
GREENSBORO — Hli Nie told a judge earlier this month that ex-boyfriend Hoanh Rcom shot a wall and a pet — and threatened to kill her and himself. “He has threatened to kill me and my minor children all the time,” Nie wrote in a Jul...
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June 22, 2011
GREENSBORO — The Girl Scouts will sell off, among other things, a 114-acre Guilford County camping site with a lake, challenge course and hiking trails as part of an effort to streamline a property-heavy operation.
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June 3, 2011
A day on a South Carolina beach ended with a Greensboro firefighter using his training to save the life of a child who had already turned blue by the time anyone knew she was choking.
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May 10, 2011
GREENSBORO — Anna Nutter shook her head and sighed as the tour guide at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum explained that the double-sided drink machine in front of them had two sides for a reason.The nickel side was once for whites......
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May 1, 2011
GREENSBORO -- The ugliest house in Fisher Park sits at 910 Magnolia St. Largely abandoned since Mrs. Thelma O’Brien Keaton grew ill many years ago, the house that stands out like a dingy gray ghost among a neat row of homes was nearly demolished by...
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April 4, 2011
GREENSBORO — While 63,000 people visited the popular “Bodies Revealed” exhibit at the Natural Science Center during its record-breaking run, an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 people never got in mostly because they had no place to park.
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January 26, 2011
GREENSBORO — The chief fundraiser at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum has been laid off, bringing to six the number of full-time employees who have lost their jobs in the museum’s first year of operation.
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January 19, 2011
GREENSBORO — As soon as American Express announced it was moving most of its call center jobs out of the Triad, local nonprofits began measuring the loss in money and volunteer hours. “It will take dozens of small business and giving efforts t...
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December 2, 2010
GREENSBORO — Gov. Bev. Perdue is pushing for enforcement of the ban on sweepstakes machines that mimic gambling, but she isn’t ruling out a version of the money-making operations under the control of state lottery officials.
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