November 20, 2009
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson, on the verge of a NASCAR record fourth consecutive championship, signed a contract extension today to drive for Hendrick Motorsports through the 2015 season.
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FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — A 5-year-old girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released today.
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LEXINGTON — A Davidson County man has been charged in connection with sexual offenses that allegedly happened as far back as 1981.The Davidson County Sheriff's Office said Niles Lee Tysinger, 61, of 124 Riverwood Road has been charged with eight cou...
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GRAHAM — A Chapel Hill man was jailed in Alamance County after allegedly breaking into a home and out of a police car, then assaulting a deputy.
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North Carolina’s unemployment rate increased to 11 percent in October, according to statistics released today by the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina. The rate increased for the first time since May, when it was 11.1 percent. The rat...
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LEXINGTON — A Colfax man has been charged with 55 counts of embezzling radio equipment from his former employer.
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HIGH POINT — A fourth teenager has been arrested in connection with a shooting of a convenience store clerk earlier this week.High Point police said they arrested Bradley Antwaine Stephens, 18, of 407 Crestline Drive. He was charged with attempted m...
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Police in Spartanburg, S.C., believe a man who robbed a bank there on Wednesday is the same man who has robbed several banks in the Triad, the Spartanburg Herald-Journal reported Friday.
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WINSTON-SALEM (MCT) — Two state agencies have accused three companies with ties to the Triad of "an elaborate scheme" to deceive consumers into buying overpriced manufactured homes.
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RALEIGH (AP) — Four female inmates say state prisons subjected them and other prisoners to sexual violence and harassment amounting to cruel and unusual punishment.
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GREENSBORO — A man was robbed while working on his car in his driveway Thursday night.Greensboro police said 20-year-old Lamar McKinley Tillery was not hurt during the incident, which happened at 9:06 p.m. at 3842 Green Point Drive.
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GREENSBORO — A deliverer for Golden Gate Pizza was robbed and assaulted by two suspects armed with handguns Thursday night, police said.About 11:32 p.m., Suresh Nambiar, 46, was delivering food at 212 Berryman St. when he was approached by the suspe...
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FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — A man charged with raping and killing a 5-year-old girl is expected in court today, a day after authorities revealed what they believed happened to her in her final days.
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GREENSBORO — A man told police his PlayStation 3, video games and an undisclosed amount of money were taken during a home invasion early Thursday morning.About 3:50 a.m., one to four suspects kicked in the front door of Ronald Kimber's apartment a 5...
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HIGH POINT — The issue of Taser-armed police in local schools sparked impassioned debate from advocates of both sides of the issue during a discussion Thursday. High Point Police Chief Jim Fealy and Guilford County Sheriff BJ Barnes heard support fo...
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GREENSBORO — Guilford County approved an incentive plan worth $248,791 in exchange for 373 jobs that Laboratory Corp. of America might move to a building in Greensboro.
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GREENSBORO — The Rev. Frank Dew opened Greensboro Urban Ministry’s annual Feast of Caring Thursday evening by blessing the food and thanking the attendees who would “help the least, the last and the left out.”
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Health officials are reaching out to faith communities to spread the word about upcoming flu shot clinics. “We know that lots of churches are taking steps to reduce the transmission of illness — like making changes in communion, even how perso...
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STONEVILLE — When Town Administrator Kevin Baughn said last week that he wanted to hire a new police chief as quickly as possible, he meant it. Less than a week after former Chief Mike James left the job, the Town Council hired Lt. Franklin Moore to...
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I went to my annual appointment with my ophthalmologist one morning on the other side of town only to be told that I was a day early. I was given the choice to come back the next day or to stay and hope that sooner or later I could be squeezed in.
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GREENSBORO — Arthur Burton III testified Thursday that he got everything he wanted from the Aman Mini Mart on Nov. 25, 2006. After he and two other masked men stormed into the store at gunpoint, he told jurors he shoved a shotgun in the clerk&rsquo......
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November 19, 2009
GREENSBORO — Nickelback today announced the North American leg of its Dark Horse World Tour, which includes a date in Greensboro.
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HIGH POINT — Three teens have been charged in the shooting of a clerk and robbery of a convenience store Wednesday.
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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina's appeals court is considering a lawsuit filed after a living man was declared dead, zipped into a body bag and taken to a morgue.
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GREENSBORO — The Florida Marlins will play an exhibition game here in April.The Marlins will face their Single A affiliate Greensboro Grasshoppers at 3 p.m. April 3. Gates will open at 1 p.m.
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