November 22, 2009
WHITSETT - Chaplain Steve Johnson takes a small boom box out of his office, places it on a chair and pops in a CD of hymns. It's what passes for a choir at this church, a converted tractor-trailer in the parking lot of the Travel Centers of America...
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November 18, 2009
LEXINGTON — Having practiced it with gusto, several thousand onlookers were excited when the time came Tuesday to welcome Tricia Creasey and her family to their new home.
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November 12, 2009
LEXINGTON — Teacher Tricia Creasey answered her door Wednesday to find Ty Pennington and the crew of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” Creasey, her husband William and their three girls are going to Walt Disney World while designers from...
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November 6, 2009
The radios in Ron Lawrence’s collection are relics of the Jazz Age. But they still sound like music to his ears — even if they pick up little more than talk radio these days.
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October 29, 2009
Singer Vaughan Penn made a career writing secular music for television shows like "The Hills," "Laguna Beach" and "Grey's Anatomy." But during the past few years she has put her faith front and center, conveying a message of...
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October 23, 2009
We were lost. My wife, Lana, and I were in the corner of some dusty cornfield in High Point. She ripped an ear off a stalk and flung it in my direction. Making sure there were no kids around, I uttered a few choice words.
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October 16, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM -- Wearing a pair of white gloves, Robert Sterling runs his fingers along a print of "JFK," feeling for tears in the sprockets and keeping an eye out for dirt or scratches.
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October 8, 2009
Charles Patton was sure that 007 actor Roger Moore did, in fact, write the memoir, “My Word is My Bond.” But he didn’t want to risk guessing wrong, especially after two lifelines failed to come through.
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October 3, 2009
GRAHAM — For his seventh birthday, Charles Patton received an encyclopedia set from his parents.
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September 20, 2009
Brothers Matt and Drew Hambright are a long way from Wall Street. But they have seen the results of the foreclosure crisis firsthand -- lawns waist-high in places, walls with holes punched in them and lots and lots of junk left behind by families who eith...
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September 17, 2009
Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" reached No. 9 on the Billboard charts in 1981, not as high as what band members had hoped, but still respectable enough to later make it a staple on classic rock radio. During the past five years, however, the so...
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Night Ranger guitarist Brad Gillis can still rock in America. But his neck aches just a little bit more the next morning. "I still give 110 percent on stage, and so does the rest of the band," he said in a telephone interview. "But we're a...
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September 11, 2009
Jill Wagner was 15 and sitting in Cinnabon at Hanes Mall with a friend when a stranger approached and asked if he could shoot her picture. "He told me that he was doing this shoot in Jamaica where they were having a contest to find some models,"......
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August 30, 2009
JAMESTOWN — With the possible exception of some T-shirts, nothing at Susan Stringer's shop is made in China. In fact, very little of what she sells is made outside of a 30-mile radius of her store in Jamestown.
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August 28, 2009
BURLINGTON -- Sarah Costello picks a severed head up off a shelf. “This guy, he’s really nice, isn’t he,” she says. “Real glass eyes. I think he was leftover from a horror movie.” In one corner of her shop, she also has...
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August 21, 2009
Slip into your bathrobe, grab a White Russian and abide. But leave the illicit substances at home. The Mixed Tape Film Series will screen “The Big Lebowski” on Wednesday at the Carolina Theatre and, in keeping with the movie’s bowling t...
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August 13, 2009
ReStore manager Ronstadt Manuel surveys his inventory: wood-paneled TVs, rows of old couches, buckets of paint, stacks of doors and other items that might have met an ignominious end at the curb on trash day. But one man’s junk is another man&rsquo......
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July 26, 2009
Ty Pennington will again park his bus in the Tar Heel state. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” is returning to North Carolina, and is now soliciting nominations for a family to feature on an upcoming episode. The ABC reality series follows team...
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July 24, 2009
Ty Pennington will again park his bus in the Tarheel State. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” is returning to North Carolina, and is now soliciting nominations for a family to feature on an upcoming episode. The ABC reality series follows teams...
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July 19, 2009
With a canvas violin case slung over his shoulder, Assil Mahamid walks over to Founder's Hall on the Guilford College campus for breakfast. He doesn't say much, offering up short answers, and many one or two word responses, to inquiries about his personal...
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July 17, 2009
We asked EMF students and faculty: What do you have on your mp3 player? Since I'm Indian, I have a lot of Bollywood-type music on there. But, I also love classical, and I've been listening to some Shostakovich. I also have some rap on there......
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July 16, 2009
KERNERSVILLE — Körner’s Folly has some otherworldly tenants. The self-billed Strangest House in the World was officially declared haunted by the Southern Paranormal and Anomaly Research Society at a news conference Wednesday. The organiza...
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July 3, 2009
Nikki Craven grabs a metal pole, and to the tune of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" lifts herself up on it, flips her legs over her head, does a twirl and slides down, hands first, onto the light-up tile floor. Her students, on a Saturday afternoon at...
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June 21, 2009
ApesThe “dad bond,” at least among mammals, is probably strongest in primates, said Terry Webb, mammal curator at the N.C. Zoo. And among primates, gorillas probably bear the closest resemblance to their human counterparts.“A silverback...
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June 19, 2009
Before “The Hangover” hit theaters, Ken Jeong issued a warning to his father:“Don’t take mom.”A doctor by training, the 39-year-old Greensboro native has seen his share of patients in their birthday suits. But in “The H...
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