August 24, 2011
We’re storytellers, Southerners are. No surprise, then, that we’re already mythologizing Earth’s strange and sudden shift on Tuesday afternoon. Well, what’d you expect? This ain’t California, where a 5.8 quake is nothing but...
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May 12, 2011
GREENSBORO — The N.C. Medical Board disciplined several area health care professionals in 2010, according to a report released this week by the board.The board licenses and regulates doctors, physician assistants and certain other medical profession...
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January 7, 2011
GREENSBORO — A well-known basketball coach defrauded hedge fund investors of $16.5 million and used the money for homes, vacations and jerseys for his team, according to a complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Stan Kowalewski, w...
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June 27, 2010
GREENSBORO — How to describe a shark bite? In a word: Gross. “I was freaking out and screaming. You could see the tendon moving around,” said Carley Schlentz, who survived the unidentified shark’s chomp at Topsail Island on Friday...
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April 1, 2010
GREENSBORO — You know the winter ailment called Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD? The one that makes you mopey, sleepy and Oreo-centric? Here comes the opposite: HAPPY. Hurray! Azaleas. Potted Plants. Yes. Today will be the warmest, most beautifu...
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March 30, 2010
Assistant City Editor Margaret Moffett Banks, inspired by the women's running network Janes on the Run, decided in late October to take on the half-marathon portion of the N.C. Marathon in High Point on March 20. She charted her feelings of inadequacy as...
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January 19, 2010
Assistant Sports Editor Margaret Banks, inspired by the women’s running network Janes on the Run, decided in late October to take on the half-marathon portion of the N.C. Marathon in High Point on March 20.
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April 25, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Meet Parker Duncan Ginobili Till -- age 2 and oblivious to the San Antonio Spurs' playoff run, which continues tonight against the Phoenix Suns. Mommy and Daddy, however, are far from oblivious. They love the Spurs. How much? Let's go back t...
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April 9, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Think fantasy fishing is just a waste of time? You're wrong. It's an incredibly lucrative waste of time. Reginald Pickett of Greensboro won $100,000 in FLW Outdoor's Fantasy Fishing tournament. Fantasy fishing officials will hand over the ch...
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GREENSBORO -- Think fantasy fishing is just a waste of time? You're wrong. It's an incredibly lucrative waste of time. Reginald Pickett of Greensboro won $100,000 in FLW Outdoor's Fantasy Fishing tournament. Fantasy fishing officials will hand over the ch...
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March 7, 2008
GREENSBORO — City Hall and Officer Julius Fulmore are giving dramatically different versions of whether Fulmore told city attorneys that police officers destroyed 50 boxes of material related to the 1979 Klan-Nazi shootings. Amiel Rossabi, Fulmore......
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GREENSBORO — Here are some things we know — and things we don't know — about the documents related to the 1979 Klan-Nazi shootings that were allegedly destroyed by Greensboro police officers: Question: Do we know for sure that 50 boxes o...
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March 6, 2008
GREENSBORO - Councilman Mike Barber said Thursday he's "very skeptical" of claims Officer Julius Fulmore reported the alleged destruction of documents related to the 1979 Klan/Nazi shooting to an assistant city attorney. Barber's reasoning: "Our legal dep...
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March 5, 2008
GREENSBORO The City Council welcomes a federal investigation into allegations that documents about the Klan/Nazi shootings were destroyed, according to a vote it took Tuesday. OK, let's lighten things up a little. Should the intergalactic legal network i...
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February 27, 2008
GREENSBORO — The city will renew discussions to buy the old Canada Dry plant beside the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. Is that property key toward revitalizing that part of town?
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February 26, 2008
GREENSBORO - The city is reopening negotiations to buy the old Canada Dry plant next to the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. The board voted 6-1 to let City Manager Mitchell Johnson move ahead with trying to buy the property again. Councilwoman Sandra Anderso...
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Here's the latest from this morning's press conference at New Light Baptist Church: * Three Greensboro pastors say Sgt. Craig McMinn of the Greensboro Police Department's Special Intelligence Unit ordered police officers to destroy 50 boxes of files rela...
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The City Council has adopted new voting districts to accommodate about 10,000 new Greensboro residents acquired through annexation. The plan must be approved by the U.S. Department of Justice, which will determine whether the map creates fair voting distr...
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February 22, 2008
GREENSBORO — Scores of public school boosters helped convince county commissioners to put three education-related bond packages on the ballot this May. If Thursday night's county commissioners' meeting was any indication, voters should expect to hea...
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February 20, 2008
GREENSBORO — City employees will learn later this spring which jobs will be cut under a plan to trim the staff at City Hall. On Tuesday, City Manager Mitchell Johnson told the City Council that he's working on a plan to eliminate 49 jobs by July.
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February 16, 2008
GREENSBORO — Someone has filed a federal discrimination complaint against the city's Parks and Recreation Department. City officials say personnel laws bar them from stating the nature of the complaint or who it involves. News of problems within th...
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February 15, 2008
GREENSBORO - The city manager avoided losing his job Thursday, when council members instead decided to order him to address problems at City Hall, including lawsuits involving the Parks & Recreation Department and tension in the Fire Department. Mitch...
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February 13, 2008
GREENSBORO — City Council members will have their pick of options Thursday afternoon when they deliberate City Manager Mitchell Johnson's future: Councilwoman Mary Rakestraw plans to make a motion to fire him. Councilman Robbie Perkins plans to make...
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February 9, 2008
GREENSBORO — Councilwoman Mary Rakestraw wants to hold an emergency meeting next week to ask for the resignation of City Manager Mitchell Johnson. Few of her colleagues echoed her call.Rakestraw said Friday she's lost confidence in Johnson after a se...
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February 8, 2008
City Manager Mitchell Johnson today released a statement regarding a story in the News & Record on a missing police department memo. Read the statement From today's News & Record: GREENSBORO — A new crisis at City Hall on Thursday heighte...
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