February 14, 2012
Mary Ann Holder died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, according to an autopsy released Tuesday. Authorities took a Smith & Wesson .32-caliber long revolver and a small, plastic bag with white powder that tested positive for cocaine from Hold...
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RALEIGH (AP) — The state should close an Elizabeth City museum, a Kinston historic site and reduce operating hours at seven other locations to reduce operating expenses at attractions with high costs and low visitor traffic, the legislature's fiscal...
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RALEIGH (AP) — More U.S. House members from North Carolina are officially facing challengers in the May primary. The State Board of Elections web site says newspaper owner Ken Fortenberry of Lincoln County filed his candidacy paperwork Tuesday, sett...
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NEW BERN (AP) — A Fayetteville man has pleaded guilty to scamming nearly $900,000 in military benefits by falsely claiming to have been injured while serving the country. U.S. Attorney Thomas Walker says that 41-year-old Navy veteran Ronnie Glen...
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GREENSBORO — People who want to file to run for the Guilford County Board of Commissioners can do so this week.On Monday, U.S. Middle District Judge William L. Osteen Jr. did not decide about a temporary restraining order to keep commissioner candid...
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GRAHAM — A Greensboro man pleaded guilty Monday to having sex with an underage girl numerous times in 2009.
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RALEIGH (AP) — People over the age of 65 are struggling to live in North Carolina, according to a new analysis that concludes median incomes and Social Security do not cover seniors' cost of living in the state.
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GREENSBORO — Geensboro College's undergraduate tuition for 2012-2013 will increase 2.5 percent to $26,300 per year.Standard housing costs will increase 2.1 percent, to $4,800 per year, after action taken Thursday by the college's Board of Trustees.
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Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden, will visit Greensboro on Feb. 24 as part of a bus tour meant to highlight community college partnerships with industry.Biden will be traveling with U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis on a "Community...
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GREENSBORO — Greensboro City Council members and city staff members will hold a series of public meetings in March and April to talk about the budget for the upcoming fiscal year.Here's the meeting schedule:
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GREENSBORO — Emmy-winning Animal Planet TV host Jeff Corwin is coming to town April 13."An Evening with Jeff Corwin" will begin at 7:30 p.m. at War Memorial Auditorium.
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GREENSBORO — Ballinger Road between New Garden and Chimney Rock roads has closed for a bridge repair project.This section of road will be closed to through traffic until work is completed in 2013. Local traffic will be allowed.To get to Leonard Recr...
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NEW YORK (AP) — More than 101 Dalmatians have tried to become America's most prized pooch. More than a thousand, probably. And they've all ended up in the Westminster Kennel Club dog house. That could change tonight when a sprightly package of polka...
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BURLINGTON — Two local men struck and killed by an Amtrak train last month had no alcohol in their systems at the time of their deaths, and officials in the state medical examiner’s office won’t be testing for other drugs.
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GREENSBORO — A $3.5 million town home project planned for northwest Greensboro will be delayed at least another year.Beverly Simpson, president of B Simpson Construction Co., had planned to start construction in 2010 on a 16-unit town house project...
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GREENSBORO — The Coalition to Protect N.C. Families is sponsoring “All Love Is Beautiful,” a rally against Amendment One, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. today at The Green Bean Coffeehouse, 341 S. Elm St.
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GREENSBORO — Local ministers and community leaders who have supported Latin Kings leader Jorge Cornell will discuss today what they call the “ongoing denial of fair treatment” to Cornell.
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EDEN — Lilly Oncology On Canvas, an art exhibition honoring the journeys cancer patients face, is on display through Friday at the John Smith-Dalton McMichael Cancer Center at Morehead Memorial Hospital.To enter artwork, applicants must register by...
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GREENSBORO — Two men kicked in the front door of a home and fired shots from a handgun before fleeing Monday night.Greensboro police said Devongi Morrison and Latarshia Crawford told officers the men kicked in the door at 820 Broad Ave. shortly afte...
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WINSTON-SALEM — The Winston-Salem Police Department, in response to complaints from the American Civil Liberties Union about driver's license checkpoints around the city, has revised its checkpoint policy, Police Chief Scott Cunningham told a Winsto...
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WINSTON-SALEM — The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners voted 4-2 on Monday for an ordinance that allows people with permits to carry concealed handguns in county parks.The vote split along party lines, with Republican commissioners Debra Conrad......
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KERNERSVILLE — East Forsyth softball coach Mike Muse will be suspended for five days without pay for his tirade last month against a student who recorded the incident on his cellphone, the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board decided Monday.
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WINSTON-SALEM — Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has been credited as being the main economic engine of Forsyth County for several years, according to local civic and elected officials.
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LOUISBURG (AP) — A Louisburg woman is facing possible jail time over a local ordinance that she feels is unfair and unconstitutional.WRAL-TV reports that Pat Walker is scheduled to face a judge Tuesday to determine whether she will go to jail for 20...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the alter-ego of super-sizing.Researchers infiltrated a fast-food Chinese restaurant and found up to a third of diners jumped at the offer of a half-size of the usual heaping pile of rice or noodles — even when the sm...
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