November 24, 2009
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A body that washed ashore at a North Carolina wildlife refuge over the weekend was identified Tuesday as the owner of a fishing boat that sank off the New Jersey coast on Nov. 11.
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HIGH POINT — A man who was out on bond on burglary charges engaged in a home burglary crime spree in September and October, police said today.The High Point Police Department's property crimes unit began investigating a rash of home burglaries in th...
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WENTWORTH — Rockingham District Attorney Phil Berger Jr. will not file charges in the February shooting death of a Reidsville man.
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BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss pharmaceuticals maker Novartis AG has opened the first U.S. plant to produce flu vaccines using cell cultures instead of egg-based methods, it said Tuesday.The new site in Holly Springs, North Carolina, is unlikely to...
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SUNDAY Blue Christmas service, 7 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Chapel, 3906 W. Friendly Ave., Greensboro. A service for those who may find it difficult to make it through the holiday season. www.westpreschurch.org/bluechristmasservice.cfm
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HIGH POINT (MCT) — The victim of the city's most recent homicide died from a close-range gunshot wound, according to an autopsy report.
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GREENSBORO — The Guilford County Sheriff's Office said 11 people were charged with driving while impaired during a checkpoint this weekend.The "Booze It and Lose It" checkpoint ran from 11 p.m. Friday at 3 a.m. Saturday on East Market Stre...
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EDEN -- The Rockingham County Department of Public Health will hold a vaccination clinic on Monday to immunize vulnerable populations against the H1N1 flu virus. The clinic will take place from 2-6 p.m. in the education center of Trinity Wesleyan Church......
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FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — The father of a girl who was kidnapped and killed said today he made the best decision he could at the time when he let her live with her mother, who has since been charged with prostituting the child.
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GREENSBORO — The Guilford County Department of Public Health will hold two H1N1 flu shot clinics Wednesday.
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GREENSBORO – A man was fatally shot Monday night at the Freeman Mill Square shopping center in what police believe was a drive-by. Greensboro police have identified the victim as 29-year-old Anthony Tyrone Shuller. No arrests have been made, and pol...
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RALEIGH — Rep. Mel Watt has been getting a lot of online grief lately for his work on a bill related to the Federal Reserve. The Charlotte Democrat, who represents parts of Guilford County, sits on the House Financial Services Committee.
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GREENSBORO — The trip to grandma’s house for Thanksgiving will be more expensive for Triad motorists this year because of a rise in gas prices of more than 60 cents a gallon in the past 12 months. The blow to drivers’ pocketbooks will be...
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WENTWORTH — Rockingham County commissioners moved forward Monday in their pursuit of countywide broadband Internet access by hiring a company to conduct an engineering study.
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On Nov. 14, I had a yard sale at my mother’s house. Two ladies were looking at some clothes that were mine. One pulled me aside to show me what she had found in my shirt pocket. To my surprise, it was $150! I have not been in the closet where that s...
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Do you have a holiday memory you want to share — an experience so special that it makes you smile, laugh, or maybe even cry? If so, we’d like to hear from you. Send it to Teresa Prout, city editor; News & Record; 200 E. Market St.; Greensb...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers are thinking beyond Cyber Monday - a holiday marketing promotion many push for the Monday after Thanksgiving - and trying to spin their discounts into into Cyber Weekends or even Cyber Weeks.
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November 23, 2009
GREENSBORO — On the night of Friday the 13th, thieves stole seven smiles from Room 404 at Gillespie Park Elementary School.
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More North Carolinians are expected to travel this Thanksgiving weekend despite a rise in gas prices compared to a year ago, AAA Carolinas said today.
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Toriano Tucker Sr., 37, is wanted by Greensboro police on charges of domestic assault, harassment, stalking and injury to personal property. Officers say on Oct. 3 they responded to a domestic dispute call at a home on Hyde Drive. A female victim told off...
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WENTWORTH — A Waynesville consulting group will study the potential for broadband Internet access in Rockingham County, after the Board of Commissioners hired the company on Monday.
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BOONE, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina have arrested a man in the accidental shooting death of a college student at an off-campus party. Boone police Capt. Jim Wilson said 20-year-old Galen Elijah Ruble of Boone was arrested Monday in the deat...
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FORT BRAGG (AP) — Sarah Palin brought her book-signing tour to North Carolina's Fort Bragg on Monday and hundreds greeted the former Republican vice presidential candidate in a campaign-like gathering.
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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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