November 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — You didn’t need unemployment figures or foreclosure data to see evidence of economic need Tuesday. It was lined up on Lawndale Drive.More than a thousand people descended upon Lawndale Baptist Church for a shot at one of the 1,000...
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GREENSBORO — Two tarps blocking the view of Room 304 at the LandMark Inn on Tuesday morning symbolized the latest in a series of problems linked to 2838 S. Elm-Eugene St.Inside the room, police detectives investigated a crime scene. Hours earlier......
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GREENSBORO — Sandy Tew busied herself Tuesday with boxing up mementos she has collected during 31 years at the Greensboro Police Department: pictures of colleagues, leadership plaques and a doll of King Julien, the animated character from DreamWorks...
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GREENSBORO — Downtown Greensboro Inc. and the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro have come up with a way to brighten the holidays, spruce up some unused storefronts and assist local nonprofits.
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Help with holiday meals is available in the area Thursday:
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CHARLOTTE (AP) — Carolina fullback Brad Hoover and safety Charles Godfrey have returned to practice following injuries, but the Panthers remain depleted at linebacker.Hoover has missed the past three games with a high ankle sprain, while Godfrey has...
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GRAHAM — An Alamance County man has been charged in the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl.The Alamance County Sheriff's Office said Christopher Len Straughan, 22, of 921 Dixie St. in Burlington has been charged with second degree sexual offense a...
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The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office will accept non-perishable food donations on behalf of the Salvation Army through Dec. 21. Donors can drop off the items at the office at 1088 N.C. Hwy 65 in Wentworth or give them to any deputy. Dono...
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Update: The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office said today that a fifth person was arrested Tuesday. Robert Joe Pugh, 56, of 1020 Pacific Drive in Winston-Salem, was charged with felonious larceny. He was later released from the Forsyth County jail on a $1,00...
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LEXINGTON — Four people wanted on robbery charges in Winston-Salem were arrested Tuesday in Davidson County.The Davidson County Sheriff's Office said deputies saw a vehicle they suspected was connected to a robbery at 189 Hickory Tree Road in the Mi...
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CARY (AP) — Police say a man rammed his car into a hot dog stand when the vendor refused to sell him a hot dog and drink for a dollar.
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WINSTON-SALEM (MCT) — Meadowlark Elementary Principal Ann Aust has been suspended without pay and schools Superintendent Don Martin is asking that she be fired.Martin said that his decision was based on an internal investigation and didn't involve s...
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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina public school leaders are reworking their budgets after a court ruling that could force them to pay charter schools millions of dollars.
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CULLOWHEE (AP) — An autopsy has found that a football player who died during his first preseason workout at Western Carolina University suffered complications from an enlarged heart.Ja'Quayvin Smalls died in July, hours after collapsing while runnin...
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BURLINGTON — Two men stole nearly 100 softball bats in 3 minutes from a local sporting goods store.Burlington police said two men broke the front door glass of Burlington Sporting Goods at 2234 Hanford Road at 12:20 a.m. Tuesday. Once they got insid...
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RALEIGH (AP) — Crowded airplanes, lost baggage and delays often greet travelers during the Thanksgiving weekend, but the airport here is wrestling with another problem.Coyotes.
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GREENSBORO — Two people were robbed in the parking lot in front of their apartment Tuesday night.Greensboro police said 29-year-old Juan Monje and 23-year-old Yolanda Villava-Diaz pulled into the parking lot at 209 Woodnell St. at 11:27 p.m. Tuesday...
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I have the best neighbors in the country. Roy and Carol Edwards are all the time doing things for me. Carol and her daughter, Kim, fix things for me. Roy picks up my paper and gets my mail for me and puts it on the porch. He takes my garbage...
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November 24, 2009
GREENSBORO — A set of benches will soon find a new home along the Downtown Greenway — one farther away from residents. The five benches became a point of public and political debate this fall. They were removed from a spot near Bilbro St...
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RALEIGH — The State Board of Elections has asked Sen. Phil Berger to explain at least three dozen problems found with his campaign finance reports since 2004, ranging from a lack of information to apparently illegal contributions.
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GREENSBORO — Deciding to give President Barack Obama one of their farm-raised turkeys to celebrate Thanksgiving was the easy part for 10-year-old Mariama Ibrahim and her 8-year-old brother, Anwar. The hard part was whether they could get the bird to...
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina coach Roy Williams is recovering after undergoing surgery on his left shoulder. Williams had surgery Tuesday to repair a torn labrum, an injury he sustained in early October when he slipped on a wet step at a...
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A famous photo of the Greensboro sit-ins taken by Greensboro Record photographer Jack Moebes was featured Tuesday on the popular trivia show “Jeopardy!” In the second round of questioning, contestant Ben Davis chose the $2,000 question under t...
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GREENSBORO — Come January, the city will have a new Parks and Recreation director. Gregory Jackson, park operations and athletic services division director for Mecklenburg County, will head up Greensboro’s parks department starting in Jan. 16.
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BURLINGTON – A bank robber matching the description of man who has robbed multiple banks in the Triad over the past month struck again Tuesday in Burlington. Just before 1 p.m., Burlington police responded to Capital Bank at 503 Huffman Mill Road on...
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