November 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — Roll over or get tough? That’s the question Time Warner Cable began asking its subscribers, including more than 400,000 in the Triad, on Wednesday. The company has launched a campaign to target what it calls unfair price demands b...
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GREENSBORO — Area loss-prevention officers are ready to tackle the holidays — one shoplifter at a time. They drew up a game plan earlier this month. They talked strategy, and they shared crime-prevention tips.
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This year, your humble correspondent is giving thanks that our second president, John Adams, didn’t set the tone by which our nation celebrates Thanksgiving. In 1798, Adams declared “a day of solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer” and...
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GREENSBORO — With Wednesday’s departure of President and CEO Jeanie Duncan, the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro has tapped another staffer to fill the post on an interim basis.
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Rockingham County officials hoped to lock in a no-interest loan by the end of the year to help pay for the construction of a $14.5 million replacement for Douglass Elementary School in Eden.
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I have to say that I am truly blessed and thankful for having a wonderful husband and kids, a great job and good health. If you don’t have any plans for the holiday, St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Reidsville is offeri...
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I want to thank the man who paid for my groceries on the night before Thanksgiving last year. This took place at the Harris Teeter on New Garden Road. Last year, I went out after dinner to pick up a few last-minute items for Thanksgiving dinner.
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November 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — You didn’t need unemployment figures or foreclosure data to see evidence of economic need Tuesday. It was lined up on Lawndale Drive.More than a thousand people descended upon Lawndale Baptist Church for a shot at one of the 1,000...
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GREENSBORO — Two tarps blocking the view of Room 304 at the LandMark Inn on Tuesday morning symbolized the latest in a series of problems linked to 2838 S. Elm-Eugene St.Inside the room, police detectives investigated a crime scene. Hours earlier......
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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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GREENSBORO — Downtown Greensboro Inc. and the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro have come up with a way to brighten the holidays, spruce up some unused storefronts and assist local nonprofits.
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EDEN — Parents whose children attend the Morehead Academy Child Development Center must scramble to find another child care service after learning this week the center will close until further notice.
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GREENSBORO -- A longtime Greensboro deputy fire chief will retire Monday, officials said today.
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DURHAM (AP) — A single-engine plane has crashed in a field in central North Carolina and the two people on board managed to escape before a fire started. WRAL-TV reports the Cessna crashed Wednesday near the Chatham-Durham county line. The names of...
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GREENSBORO – With Wednesday’s departure of president and CEO Jeanie Duncan, the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro has tapped another staffer to fill the post on an interim basis. Altina Layman, council marketing and community affairs d...
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Help with holiday meals is available in the area Thursday:
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CHARLOTTE (AP) — Carolina fullback Brad Hoover and safety Charles Godfrey have returned to practice following injuries, but the Panthers remain depleted at linebacker.Hoover has missed the past three games with a high ankle sprain, while Godfrey has...
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GRAHAM — An Alamance County man has been charged in the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl.The Alamance County Sheriff's Office said Christopher Len Straughan, 22, of 921 Dixie St. in Burlington has been charged with second degree sexual offense a...
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The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office will accept non-perishable food donations on behalf of the Salvation Army through Dec. 21. Donors can drop off the items at the office at 1088 N.C. Hwy 65 in Wentworth or give them to any deputy. Dono...
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Update: The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office said today that a fifth person was arrested Tuesday. Robert Joe Pugh, 56, of 1020 Pacific Drive in Winston-Salem, was charged with felonious larceny. He was later released from the Forsyth County jail on a $1,00...
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LEXINGTON — Four people wanted on robbery charges in Winston-Salem were arrested Tuesday in Davidson County.The Davidson County Sheriff's Office said deputies saw a vehicle they suspected was connected to a robbery at 189 Hickory Tree Road in the Mi...
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CARY (AP) — Police say a man rammed his car into a hot dog stand when the vendor refused to sell him a hot dog and drink for a dollar.
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WINSTON-SALEM (MCT) — Meadowlark Elementary Principal Ann Aust has been suspended without pay and schools Superintendent Don Martin is asking that she be fired.Martin said that his decision was based on an internal investigation and didn't involve s...
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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina public school leaders are reworking their budgets after a court ruling that could force them to pay charter schools millions of dollars.
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CULLOWHEE (AP) — An autopsy has found that a football player who died during his first preseason workout at Western Carolina University suffered complications from an enlarged heart.Ja'Quayvin Smalls died in July, hours after collapsing while runnin...
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