November 10, 2009
GREENSBORO - Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has canceled two talks in Greensboro on Wednesday to be at her ailing husband's side, according to officials at the Elon University School of Law.
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November 5, 2009
GREENSBORO — Tuesday’s City Council election injected new blood into city government, giving Greensboro four newcomers who will change the council’s math in more ways than one. Three new council members will join Mayor-elect Bill Knight......
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November 3, 2009
GREENSBORO — The city’s at-large council race changed the council’s composition Tuesday night with the exit of the two-term mayor pro tem, the victory of a newcomer and the return of a popular former council member.Sandra Anderson Groat...
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GREENSBORO — Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Klan-Nazi shootings that killed five and injured 10 in 1979. Local students, clergy and community leaders are commemorating the tragedy with a “Truth, Justice and Healing Conference” f...
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October 30, 2009
HIGH POINT — Residents at High Point’s Wesleyan Homes are looking for new homes as the federally assisted apartments for the elderly prepare to shut down next year. The building’s 80 residents were initially given between four and six...
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October 28, 2009
GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T may have pulled out of its annual concert at the Greensboro Coliseum , but homecoming will be alive and well on campus this weekend. The school is banking on guests like poet Maya Angelou and R&B group The Temptations...
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October 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — Comic fans of all ages gathered at Acme Comics on Saturday to celebrate Greensboro’s first appearance on the cover of a major comic book.
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October 23, 2009
HIGH POINT — When High Point University’s new $70 million student center opens today , it will be a perfect marker on the school’s road from small private school to fast-growing blue-chip university. The High Point University Center will...
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October 22, 2009
GREENSBORO — High-speed Internet in the Triad is about to go wireless as Sprint and Time Warner Cable roll out 4G wireless networks before the end of the year.
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October 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — For college students, coffee is more than a buzz. It's sustenance for the weary, light at the end of the tunnel, the catalyst for late-night conversations. It is, in short, a way of life.But Greensboro College has never had a coffee sho...
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October 19, 2009
GREENSBORO — When Charles T. Hagan Jr. died last week, no one could say he hadn’t made the most of every minute. At 96, Charlie — as he was known to everyone — was the patriarch of a large and loving family, a towering figure in No...
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GREENSBORO — Friends, family and comrades gathered in the Stallings Ballroom on the campus of N.C. A&T on Sunday for a memorial honoring two Army reservists killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. Capt. Benjamin Sklaver, 32 , a native of Ham...
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October 16, 2009
GREENSBORO — The Greater Glenwood Neighborhood Association hosted a meeting Thursday night between neighbors and a developer looking to build student housing in the area.
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October 15, 2009
HIGH POINT — High Point University and the federal government came to the rescue of senior citizens Thursday, telling them they wouldn’t be rushed from their home.
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HIGH POINT — When Nina Cashman learned Wesleyan Homes was closing, she felt like her world was crumbling. At 92, she’s lived at the government-subsidized apartment building for 24 years. It had become her home, and she had no plans to leave.
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GREENSBORO — The Elon University School of Law opened its Clinical Law Center on Wednesday, giving students a base from which to do volunteer legal work in the community.
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October 13, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM — A critically wounded Winston-Salem police officer died Monday night, according to department officials.Sgt. Mickey Hutchens, a 27-year veteran of the force, suffered a gunshot wound to the head in a shootout behind a Bojangles restau...
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GREENSBORO — Representatives for one of the country’s largest student housing developers will meet with the Greater Glenwood Neighborhood Association on Thursday as neighbors weigh a student housing project in the area.
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GREENSBORO — The city’s zoning commission voted 4-3 Monday to allow condos on North Elm Street and Cornwallis Drive — a plan that involves demolishing the historic Commencement House built by UNCG students.
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October 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — Mark Lindsey has been busy lately. The commercial broker for High Point’s Skeen Group has been hustling to put together a deal for a student housing development in the Glenwood neighborhood — and do it on a tight deadline.
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October 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T has removed its name and financial support from the university’s annual homecoming concert after complaints about hiring a gang-affiliated rapper. With recent controversy about rapper Gucci Mane performing as the conc...
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October 6, 2009
GREENSBORO — When shots rang out on UNCG’s campus at just after midnight Saturday, police arrived to find a party at the Phillips-Hawkins residence hall. A fight had broken out, they were told, and ended when someone began shooting.
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October 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — Teresa Eagle and her family have lived on Portland Street in the Glenwood neighborhood for 25 years . The area has changed a lot in that time — mostly going downhill from its beginnings as an ambitious turn-of-the-century experi...
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GREENSBORO — As N.C. A&T’s administration decides whether to replace a gang-affiliated rapper at this year’s homecoming concert, a heated debate continues among students on campus.
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As a young boy, Charles Ardai was one of millions who felt his pulse pound and his palms sweat in a dark theater as Indiana Jones took on Nazis, the unknown and even the wrath of God in 1979's "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
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