February 11, 2012
WENTWORTH — The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office seized firearms, computers and cellphones from the house of Douglas and LaDonna French, who were killed in an apparent home invasion last week.
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Available today in the News & Record's electronic edition: News: Guilford County has logged no job growth over the past 12 years. There were fewer people working in December 2011 than in December 1999. During that time, the local unemployment rat...
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February 10, 2012
ASHEBORO — A Climax woman has been charged with fatally shooting her husband and placing his body in an outbuilding Thursday. On Friday, Randolph County sheriff's deputies responded to 3623 Old Red Cross Road in Climax in reference to a gunshot inj...
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GREENSBORO -- Aldi company officials now say an earlier report that it would open a new store in northwest Greensboro was premature.
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CHAPEL HILL — Amid chants of protest from about 100 students, the UNC Board of Governors this morning approved President Tom Ross' proposal for tuition and fee hikes over the next two years.Ross' plan would raise tuition by an average of 8.8 percent...
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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Wake Forest has added two assistants to its football staff. Coach Jim Grobe said Friday that Jonathan Himebauch will coach the offensive line and Derrick Jackson will be in charge of the defensive line. Himebauch had coached in...
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LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre has decided to seek re-election to Congress this year instead of running for North Carolina governor.
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GREENSBORO — Greensboro police seized marijuana, a rifle and ammunition from the home of the man charged with shooting at a officer and starting a 15-hour standoff with police last month. He is still under medical evaluation.
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Greensboro native John Isner has notched the biggest single victory of his career so far, defeating Roger Federer in four sets at a Davis Cup tennis match today in Fribourg, Switzerland.The big-serving Isner beat Federer 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-2 to give the...
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Here's a look at pictures of the week selected by Rob Brown, the News & Record's director of photography.Click here to view the photo gallery.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who snatched a baby from a New York City hospital in 1987 then raised the child as her own daughter has pleaded guilty to kidnapping.Ann Pettway of Raleigh entered the guilty plea Friday at a federal courthouse in Manhattan.
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REIDSVILLE — A 46-year-old Reidsville police officer died Wednesday, city officials said in a news release .Lesley “Lee” Francis Edmonds II, 46, died of apparent natural causes, Maj. Abner Bullins of the Rockingham County Sheriff’s...
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GREENSBORO — The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded UNCG's new School of Education building LEED Gold certification. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) specifications are set by the Council. Gold is the second-highes...
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DALLAS (AP) — Michelle Obama is spicing up school lunches with cooks from Bravo's "Top Chef" and the Dallas Cowboys football team. The first lady and "Top Chef" judge Tom Colicchio acted as judges Friday. Dallas school kids and C...
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BURLINGTON — A 23-year-old man is the third person to be charged in last weekend's slaying of a Burlington woman.Burlington police said today that Keith Antonio Graves of 609 Everett St. was arrested Thursday afternoon. He was charged with first-deg...
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DETROIT (AP) — Federal safety regulators are investigating reports of fires in the driver's side doors of 2007 Toyota Camry sedans and RAV4 crossover SUVs.The probe could affect as many as 830,000 vehicles, the National Highway Traffic Safety Admini...
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BURLINGTON (AP) — Clinical lab services company Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings reported today that its fourth quarter earnings edged up 3 percent as revenue and expenses both rose.The adjusted earnings topped Wall Street estimates, but t...
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PISGAH FOREST (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has postponed a 1,200-acre prescribed burn in the Bearpen Mountain area in of the Pisgah Ranger District in the Pisgah National Forest.Fire managers canceled the burn today because of increased humidity l...
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CONOVER (AP) — An 18-year-old has been charged in an ongoing probe of counterfeit cash in Catawba County.The Hickory Daily Record reported today that Devin Andrew Yancey of Conover has been charged in his hometown and in nearby Newton.
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REIDSVILLE — A Schewels employee has been charged in connection with the theft of about $237,000 worth of electronics.Reidsville police said Toby Sean Dishmon, 36, of 87 Whitestone Drive in Ruffin was charged with larceny of employee. His bond was s...
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Former players Kenny Dennard of Duke, Kenny Smith of North Carolina, Todd Fuller of N.C. State and Randolph Childress of Wake Forest will be among those honored in the 2012 class of ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Legends in Atlanta next month.
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NEW YORK (AP) — On a normal day, 4 billion shares of stock change hands on the New York Stock Exchange. One in 10 belongs to a single company. It's not McDonald's or IBM, both of which have been on a tear.
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APEX — Keith Adams says he simply wanted to reclaim more than 30 of his paintings that were inside Bistro 155, a restaurant that had recently closed.
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CHAPEL HILL -- UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp has recommended against a proposal to implement a gender--neutral pilot housing program at the university.
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