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By Dioni L. Wise

November 25, 2009

Local crime stopper closes 31-year career

GREENSBORO — Sandy Tew busied herself Tuesday with boxing up mementos she has collected during 31 years at the Greensboro Police Department: pictures of colleagues, leadership plaques and a doll of King Julien, the animated character from DreamWorks... Read More

November 24, 2009

Famous sit-in photo stumps Jeopardy! players

A famous photo of the Greensboro sit-ins taken by Greensboro Record photographer Jack Moebes was featured Tuesday on the popular trivia show “Jeopardy!” In the second round of questioning, contestant Ben Davis chose the $2,000 question under t... Read More

November 22, 2009

Ask a Reporter: Someone goofed in case of one block with different speed limits

Question: How can there be different speed limits on the same street, going in opposite directions? At West Vandalia Road and South Holden Road, the speed limit is 35 mph going west on Vandalia. Coming east on the same street (Vandalia... Read More

November 20, 2009

A warm bowl of caring

GREENSBORO — The Rev. Frank Dew opened Greensboro Urban Ministry’s annual Feast of Caring Thursday evening by blessing the food and thanking the attendees who would “help the least, the last and the left out.” Read More

November 16, 2009

Guilford County's 'Most Wanted'

Paul Gilmore, 20, is wanted by Greensboro police on two counts of robbery with a firearm. Read More

November 14, 2009

Time Warner to raise cable, Internet rates

GREENSBORO — Time Warner Cable customers are receiving their monthly bills and something extra — 30-day notices about rate increases. Beginning with their December bills, some cable and high-speed Internet customers will see rate increases of... Read More

November 12, 2009

Steady rain, strong winds pose threats for trees, flood-prone areas

GREENSBORO — The remnants of Ida didn’t cause many problems Wednesday, but steady rain and strong winds will pose threats for soggy trees and flood-prone areas in the Triad today.“It’s still a chance that we could get some flash fl... Read More

November 6, 2009

Update: Fire victim remains in critical condition

GREENSBORO — A woman was critically injured Thursday afternoon after a fire broke out in her one-story apartment.Nina McCallister, 56, was taken from Moses Cone Hospital to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. She remained... Read More

November 5, 2009

Group gives youth chance to have a voice

GREENSBORO — Fourteen-year-old Rose Lawson says some of her classmates dislike the police or are afraid to talk with them. The eighth-grader and peer mediator at Mendenhall Middle School said she was never scared of police officers, but she had her... Read More

November 3, 2009

Guilford County's Most Wanted

Jamaal Perry, 29, is wanted by Greensboro police on charges of assault by strangulation. Officers responded to a domestic assault call on Oct. 18. The female victim said Perry shoved her and knocked her down steps. She said that Perry choked her until sh... Read More

Motorist charged in death of bicyclist

GREENSBORO — Police have charged an Eden woman in connection with the hit-and-run death of a bicyclist in Guilford County on Oct. 24. Grayson Warren Dawson, 48, of 702 Moir Mill Road in Eden, was charged Monday with felony hit and run, misdemeanor d... Read More

November 2, 2009

Driver charged in fatal hit-and-run of bicyclist, released on bond

GREENSBORO – Police have charged an Eden woman in connection with the hit-and-run death of a bicyclist in northern Guilford County last weekend. Grayson Dawson, 48, of 702 Moir Mill Road in Eden was charged Monday with felony hit and run, misdemeano... Read More

October 31, 2009

Court trouble keeps rapper from local show

GREENSBORO — Some N.C. A&T students and alumni didn’t want controversial rapper Gucci Mane to step foot on the university’s homecoming concert stage. Turns out that the rapper can’t even step across the state line. Read More

October 29, 2009

No charges for man, 80, who shot, killed burglar

 GREENSBORO — An 80-year-old man who shot an intruder inside his apartment will not face criminal charges.The Guilford County District Attorney’s Office will not charge Charles Haithcock , who fatally shot Michael Lamont Medley Jr. on... Read More

October 27, 2009

Troopers seize damaged SUV

EDEN — The Highway Patrol has seized a vehicle that investigators believe was involved in a Saturday hit-and-run that killed a bicyclist in northern Guilford County.An anonymous tip to the patrol helped authorities find a 1998 Dodge Durango on Monda... Read More

October 25, 2009

'Good hair' is in the scalp of the beholder

Most people say that your hair is your crown and glory, and they go to great lengths to ensure that their "glory" is not tarnished or rusty. Black women are no different. I, for one, tried to hold fast to my glory with perms or relaxers that che... Read More

October 23, 2009

Grimsley teacher charged with indecent liberties with student

GREENSBORO – A Grimsley High School teacher was charged with two counts of indecent liberties with a student. Stanley Jones III, 29, of 1916 Ray Alexander Drive in Greensboro posted a $5,000 bond Friday afternoon and was released from Guilford Coun... Read More

October 20, 2009

Update: Flurry of burglaries concerns residents

GREENSBORO — Kevin Moran is one of the latest victims of home burglaries in the New Irving Park neighborhood. Thieves took a video camera, TV and laptop from his Primrose Avenue home about 9 a.m. Monday during a 15-minute trip to drop off his son a... Read More

No plans yet for site of closed McLeansville prison

GREENSBORO — The Guilford Correctional Center in McLeansville closed Oct. 1. Its prisoners have been transferred to other sites, and its guards will soon follow. Most of its furnishings are being carted to other prisons. While all that is certain, w... Read More

October 19, 2009

Guilford County's 'Most Wanted'

Matthew Folsom, 39, is wanted by Greensboro police on charges of larceny and obtaining property by false pretense. On May 7, police say two men stole 11 books from Barnes & Noble at 3102 Northline Ave. Witnesses said the men rode off in a Ford F-150 t... Read More

October 13, 2009

'Laramie Project’ relevant at Guilford College

GREENSBORO — Just weeks after a student received anti-gay letters, Guilford College performed “The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, An Epilogue” on Monday to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard. Read More

October 10, 2009

UNCG police try to curb alcohol use

GREENSBORO — UNCG campus police appear to be making a concerted effort to curb illegal alcohol use around the university, according to a new safety report. The number of arrests for liquor-law violations totaled 189 last year, up from 150 in 2007. I... Read More

October 9, 2009

Neighbors want locally run hotel in downtown

GREENSBORO — Leaders with the Ole Asheboro Neighborhood Association asked the city Thursday night to consider donating part of its 10-acre South Elm Street redevelopment area to the group so it could build and manage a proposed downtown hotel projec... Read More

October 6, 2009

Afghan blast kills 2 soldiers based in Greensboro

GREENSBORO — Two men assigned to the Army Reserve’s 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion in Greensboro were killed Friday in Murcheh, Afghanistan, by a suicide bomber. The Department of Defense identified them as Pfc. Alan H. Newton Jr., 26, of Asheb... Read More

October 5, 2009

Guilford County's Most Wanted

Jonathan Pierce, 28, is wanted by Greensboro police on charges of possession with intent to sell or deliver cocaine. On June 14, officers searched 1116 Vance St. and a green Ford Expedition in the driveway. The driver was identified as Pierce. The female... Read More

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