November 21, 2009
RALEIGH — The deal Joshua Lang had been offered on a home in Snow Camp looked like an opportunity to start fresh in a new house with his soon-to-be second wife and a second child on the way. Except the home he ended up buying from Southern Showcase...
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GREENSBORO — The $110 tuition increase N.C. A&T’s Board of Trustees approved Friday for undergraduates — and the General Assembly’s legislated increase earlier this year — carry a similar financial impact for students, Ch...
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BURLINGTON -- Police are looking for six suspects who officials say forced their way into a home and robbed the family living there.
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GREENSBORO -- Two of the best-known performers in the nation will be in town Sunday night and that likely will mean heavy traffic around the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. Tweenmania will take over High Point Road at 7 p.m. when Miley Cyrus takes the stage...
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GREENSBORO -- Police are searching for two men in connection with a late-night convenience store robbery. A clerk at Emzel Food Mart on Gregory Street told police that two men pulled up to the store about 3 a.m. Saturday. One man came into the store, pull...
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It’s one of the quintessential sounds of Christmas: the jingle of coins as they hit the bottom of the Salvation Army kettle. But the traditional sound will have a modern companion this year: the plastic clicks of a credit card in action.
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November 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — Former special intelligence officer Scott Sanders will return to regular duty next month in one of the final acts in the racially charged drama that led to the departure of former police chief David Wray.
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GREENSBORO — A Greensboro man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for fatally shooting a convenience store clerk in a 2006 robbery. It took a jury around two hours to convict 20-year-old Raytheon Williams on charges of first-degree murder......
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GREENSBORO — The word in Fisher Park was downtown Greensboro got a new produce market, and residents Jane Gallimore and Helen Ullrich had to check it out for themselves. On Thursday, they stopped by the Downtown Farm Market on North Greene Street as...
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GREENSBORO — UNCG undergraduates might not be thrilled about the prospect of paying an additional $254 in tuition and fees — but it could have been much worse, school officials suggested Thursday. Administrators noted that, facing a dire budge...
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GREENSBORO — Three officers were sworn into the ranks of the Greensboro Police Department on Friday as graduates of the agency’s first training course designed for recruits with recent basic law enforcement training certification.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — State Treasurer Janet Cowell unveiled new rules Friday banning employees from taking gifts from companies that do substantial business with the agency and setting a limit on charitable solicitations.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. Army said Friday it would open Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media, a reversal from earlier in the week when the military wanted the event closed out of fears it would prompt political grandstanding against...
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GREENSBORO – Young visitors and staff had to evacuate the Greensboro Children’s Museum Friday evening because of a gas leak. The museum is expected to open at its normal time Saturday.
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The election of a Sedalia planning board member will take the town in a direction it hasn’t been. Shinita Wrenwick vows to serve on both the planning board and the town council unless it becomes “too much.” “If I get overwhelmed, I...
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GREENSBORO — One man featured in “Guilford County’s Most Wanted” has been arrested today. Greensboro police Warrant Squad officers responded to 403 Franklin Blvd. on a Crime Stoppers tip regarding Keith O’Brian Lane. The off...
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RALEIGH (AP) — A poll says North Carolina residents like electing their judges, but some are open to letting an independent commission appoint them.
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CHARLOTTE – The FBI’s Charlotte Division issued an alert Friday seeking information on a man accused of shooting a woman in the stomach and leaving her for dead. Authorities are looking for Phillip Thomas Williams, aka “Scoob,”&nbs...
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ATLANTA (AP) — Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu.It's the first cluster of that many cases seen in the U.S.Health officials said Friday the four cases...
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GREENSBORO — Greensboro Urban Ministry’s 18th annual Feast of Caring at First Baptist Church raised more than $75,000 Thursday evening, the nonprofit reports.
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A 28-year-old inmate died of apparent natural causes Thursday night at Central Prison, according to the N.C. Department of Correction.A nurse found Kayin Whitfield unresponsive and not breathing during a regular check at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, the Department...
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DENTON — Four people were charged with an assault after an incident Tuesday at a local home.The Davidson County Sheriff's Office said James Donald Graves Jr. was attacked by family members when he tried to retrieve his son from his father's house at...
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DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) — The driver of a Miley Cyrus tour bus was killed Friday when the bus overturned, but the 16-year-old "Hannah Montana" star wasn't on board, Virginia State Police said.The bus was heading to Greensboro, where the pop si...
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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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