November 25, 2009
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...
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November 24, 2009
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...
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November 22, 2009
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...
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November 20, 2009
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.”
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November 16, 2009
Paul Gilmore, 20, is wanted by Greensboro police on two counts of robbery with a firearm.
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November 14, 2009
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...
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November 12, 2009
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...
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November 6, 2009
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...
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November 5, 2009
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...
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November 3, 2009
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...
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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...
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November 2, 2009
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...
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October 31, 2009
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.
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October 29, 2009
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...
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October 27, 2009
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...
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October 25, 2009
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...
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October 23, 2009
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...
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October 20, 2009
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...
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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...
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October 19, 2009
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...
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October 13, 2009
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.
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October 10, 2009
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...
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October 9, 2009
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...
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October 6, 2009
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...
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October 5, 2009
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...
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