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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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 $2,0...
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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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WENTWORTH — A new committee tasked with improving hunting practices in Rockingham County will hold its first meeting on Dec. 1.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A body that washed ashore at a North Carolina wildlife refuge over the weekend was identified Tuesday as the owner of a fishing boat that sank off the New Jersey coast on Nov. 11.
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HIGH POINT — A man who was out on bond on burglary charges engaged in a home burglary crime spree in September and October, police said today.The High Point Police Department's property crimes unit began investigating a rash of home burglaries in th...
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WENTWORTH — Rockingham District Attorney Phil Berger Jr. will not file charges in the February shooting death of a Reidsville man.
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BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss pharmaceuticals maker Novartis AG has opened the first U.S. plant to produce flu vaccines using cell cultures instead of egg-based methods, it said Tuesday.The new site in Holly Springs, North Carolina, is unlikely to...
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SUNDAY Blue Christmas service, 7 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Chapel, 3906 W. Friendly Ave., Greensboro. A service for those who may find it difficult to make it through the holiday season. www.westpreschurch.org/bluechristmasservice.cfm
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HIGH POINT (MCT) — The victim of the city's most recent homicide died from a close-range gunshot wound, according to an autopsy report.
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GREENSBORO — The Guilford County Sheriff's Office said 11 people were charged with driving while impaired during a checkpoint this weekend.The "Booze It and Lose It" checkpoint ran from 11 p.m. Friday at 3 a.m. Saturday on East Market Stre...
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EDEN -- The Rockingham County Department of Public Health will hold a vaccination clinic on Monday to immunize vulnerable populations against the H1N1 flu virus. The clinic will take place from 2-6 p.m. in the education center of Trinity Wesleyan Church......
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FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — The father of a girl who was kidnapped and killed said today he made the best decision he could at the time when he let her live with her mother, who has since been charged with prostituting the child.
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GREENSBORO — The Guilford County Department of Public Health will hold two H1N1 flu shot clinics Wednesday.
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GREENSBORO – A man was fatally shot Monday night at the Freeman Mill Square shopping center in what police believe was a drive-by. Greensboro police have identified the victim as 29-year-old Anthony Tyrone Shuller. No arrests have been made, and pol...
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