November 16, 2009
GREENSBORO (AP) — Chip maker RF Micro Devices Inc. said Monday it has finished restructuring its debt, buying back $197 million in notes coming due next year. It also boosted its cash flow forecast.
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SANFORD (AP) — A missing 5-year-old whose mother was accused of offering her for sex was found dead off a heavily wooded road in a rural area Monday, ending a weeklong search, police said.
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GREENSBORO — Monster Jam will visit the Greensboro Coliseum on Jan. 15 and 16 and feature monster truck freestyle and racing competitions, organizers announced Sunday.The tentative list of trucks includes Grave Digger, Monster Mutt-Dalmation, Scream...
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MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Lowe's Cos.., the No. 2 home-improvement retailer, said Monday its third-quarter profit fell 30 percent as customers continued to delay large purchases amid a weak economy. But Lowe's said some of the hardest hit home market...
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BURLINGTON — A man reached into a store's cash register and raced out the door with an undisclosed amount of money Sunday night.Burlington police said the man showed no weapons when he robbed the Vemd La Sierra at 539 N. Church St. at 9:24 p.m. Sund...
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WINSTON-SALEM — A man withdrawing money from an ATM was robbed at knifepoint Sunday night, police said.Neil Joseph Friedrick, 25, was at the Wachovia ATM at 2925 Reynolda Road about 9:10 p.m. when a man armed with a knife approached him, according t...
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Paul Gilmore, 20, is wanted by Greensboro police on two counts of robbery with a firearm.
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GREENSBORO — Both sides stand to lose money in the battle over a dam that divides them. In northwest Greensboro a small pond near Guilford College has abutted eight homes near New Garden Road for at least 50 years . In the past decade, Portrait Home...
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HIGH POINT — Unseasonably warm weather and clear skies provided near perfect conditions for the bicycle ride in memory of hit-and-run victim David Sherman.“We couldn’t have asked for a better day,” event co-organizer Rodney Simpson...
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GREENSBORO — It takes a lot of volunteers — too many to count — to help out at the winter emergency shelters for the homeless at area churches. Volunteers help cook meals, check participants in and monitor the shelter overnight. “T...
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Several stories on news-record.com received attention last week among commenters, and among them was a piece on prayer before public meetings. The Forsyth County commissioners have had sectarian prayer before meetings, according to a District Court magist...
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A portion of northbound U.S. 52 in King will close nightly starting Tuesday and ending Friday so state crews can repair shoulders. The right line will be closed near Main Street from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. nightly. Weather conditions may impact the timing of th...
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FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Authorities acted on a tip Sunday and searched a wide area in south-central North Carolina trying to find a 5-year-old girl reported missing by her mother, who has been charged with human trafficking and child abuse involving pro...
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November 15, 2009
RAMSEUR -- A reasonable person could be forgiven for doubting the Ramseur Hydroelectric Plant will ever be back in working order. The canal that once sped water to its turbines sits high and dry, sprouting trees from a patch of fill dirt dumped there year...
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GREENSBORO — The information revolution has officially run amok. After 89 people were caught viewing pornography on public computers at the Central Library in the first six months of 2009, the Greensboro Public Library has taken action to make it mo...
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RALEIGH — There’s no need to wonder where the collard greens or tomatoes came from that are on sale at Whitaker Farms’ stall at the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market.
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EDEN — Kindergartner Abbey Corbin’s poster featured pictures of her grandfather, who served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1973. Don’t think that anyone had to remind her why people consider Barry Cochran a hero.
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GREENSBORO — We don’t know his last name. Just his first. Enrique. He was no more than 16, a kid from Honduras, when he started clinging to the tops and sides of trains so he could cross the border of Mexico and find his mother in North Caroli...
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REIDSVILLE — Since she was an infant, Misty Smith Felde has watched her mother, Pat, arrange flowers for weddings, funerals and other occasions. She recalls that on one occasion she broke her finger while her mother was waiting on a customer.
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GREENSBORO — If you needed additional evidence of North Carolina’s changing economy, it’s on display at the Greensboro Children’s Museum. There, in a new temporary exhibit, children can learn about some of the essentials of manufac...
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GREENSBORO — Demographics, not environmental factors, might explain an “elevated” number of pancreatic cancer cases near the White Street Landfill, according to the Guilford County Health Department.
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Have you ever lost a dog or cat and gone to the animal shelter to look for it? The hopeful “pick me” looks of the animals will break your heart. Two years ago when our daughter’s beloved beagle disappeared, we checked the Reidsville ani...
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Question: I drive from Greensboro to Winston-Salem several times a week to check on my elderly mother. During the past year, I have noticed that the lights in the concrete median along Interstate 40 between Gallimore Dairy Road and Sandy Ridge Road are ne...
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Kathy Joyce received the Rockingham County Schools 2009 Exceptional Children’s Teacher of Excellence Award. Joyce, who teaches at Lawsonville Avenue Elementary School in Reidsville, received the honor from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction&r...
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For several years, my wife and I, along with some friends, traveled to Boone the day after Thanksgiving to choose and cut a live Christmas tree. This particular year, we were unable to go because I was confined to a wheelchair after having two surgeries o...
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