November 23, 2009
MCLEANSVILLE — When Helen Paisley Sockwell began gathering stories and information from McLeansville residents almost seven years ago, she thought she was just compiling a church history. But what began as a project for Mt. Pleasant United Methodis...
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WHITSETT — The students had just begun shuffling along the leaf-covered trail when 9-year-old Austin Driver spoke up. “I found something! I found a track,” he said, the excitement in his voice encouraging the eight other children to hudd...
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GREENSBORO — A second person is being sought on charges involving the sexual abuse of a child, police said today. Greensboro police detectives are looking for Sergio Rene Salazar, 20, according to a news release. Salazar was charged with six counts...
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GRAHAM — A Highway Patrol trooper was hurt this morning when his patrol car was struck by another vehicle on Interstate 40/85 in Alamance County.First Sgt. C.J. Slemenda said Humberto Reyna, who is based in Graham, is being treated at UNC Hospitals...
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GREENSBORO — A Comfort Inn is scheduled to open in Greensboro on Dec. 1.The hotel at 1103 Lanada Drive was formerly a Best Western.The Comfort Inn, owned and operated by CN Hotels of Greensboro, will feature 110 guest rooms and three meeting rooms t...
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RALEIGH (AP) — A fourth victim has died from injuries suffered in a natural gas explosion that tore through a North Carolina Slim Jim plant five months ago, a hospital spokesman said Monday.
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GRAHAM — Alamance County authorities seized more than 400 grams of cocaine and about $15,000 in cash this weekend.The Alamance County Sheriff's Office said two Burlington men were arrested: 24-year-old Jose Guadalupe Vargas-Ramirez of 4457 Tangle Ri...
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LEXINGTON — An 18-year-old boy has been accused of raping a 13-year-old girl.The Davidson County Sheriff's Office said Jason Cecil McKay Snyder of 317 Harris Drive in Thomasville turned himself in to deputies on Friday. He was charged with second-de...
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ATLANTIC BEACH (AP) — The Coast Guard has saved five sailors as their boat sank in the dark Atlantic Ocean.The Virginian-Pilot reported Monday that the Coast Guard was called after the sailboat Lazy Jack started taking on water about 30 miles south...
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BOONE (AP) — Police in North Carolina say the shooting death of a college student at an off-campus party appears to have been an accident.Multiple media outlets reported that 20-year-old Appalachian State University student Jay Derby of Matthews was...
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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — A headquarters of North Carolina's tobacco history is up for sale.The Winston-Salem Journal reported today that Reynolds American Inc. has put its historic former headquarters on the market.
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CHARLOTTE (AP) — A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina grandmother to death.
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Small acts of kindness aren’t necessarily considered small by the recipients. Our 9-year-old grandson recently completed his first season of peewee football for Lewis Recreation Center. We want to publicly thank Coach Everett Meadows — he&rsqu...
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GREENSBORO — Words of wisdom from various faiths and songs and dance from diverse cultures entertained people at Guilford College on Sunday afternoon during an annual event meant to bring people together for Thanksgiving.
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The increasing-by-the-minute crowd is spilling over into a second waiting room at the free monthly walk-in medical clinic off West Market Street — even though doctors aren’t scheduled to see patients for another half-hour.
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When Rep. Laura Wiley announced she wouldn’t seek a fourth term at the General Assembly, the High Point Republican sparked a flurry of interest from would-be replacements. So far, Scoop has heard from three Republicans who say they will run for the...
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November 22, 2009
At first glance, the thousands of glimmering panels erected on a former farm in southwest Davidson County seem like a brigade of energy soldiers, poised to vanquish America’s environmental bugaboos.
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GREENSBORO — A year ago, a small claims case such as this routinely ended in an eviction order and a padlocking by a deputy sheriff. But with rental vacancies rising, these days it’s not so cut-and-dried. The elderly man and his adult daughter...
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GIBSONVILLE — Imagine a front porch with lighted garlands and red ribbons, wreaths on the front door and two lighted trees near the front steps. It could be a Christmas scene at any home.
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GREENSBORO — Local retailers hope to find less coal and more money in their Christmas stockings this season. Shoppers, of course, want more deep discounts, like the ones they found last year after the bottom fell out of the economy. Both groups coul...
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EDEN — All it took was one trip to A.B. Combs Elementary School in Raleigh, and Nicole Lancaster was hooked. It was nearly a year ago when Lancaster, an assistant principal at Holmes Middle School in Eden, visited A.B. Combs to see first-hand the tr...
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GREENSBORO — A Greensboro man is charged in connection with a Nov. 17 shooting on Phillips Ave. Damerel Demonte Fox, 31, of 1705-B 10th St., is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, discharge of a weapon in an occupied prop...
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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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Rockingham County Schools students participated in the N.C. Music Educators Association’s State Honors Chorus on Nov. 8 at the Stevens Center in Winston-Salem. The elementary, middle and high school choruses were made up of about 175 students each.
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I would like to tell you about a small group of people with big hearts: the congregation at Glenwood Presbyterian Church. Recently, one of our members suffered several huge setbacks. Although we haven’t seen her in recent years, her teenage daughter...
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