Greensboro News & Record

GREENSBORO — A Guilford County Superior Court judge granted the city’s request Tuesday to demolish a historic building on South Elm Street. The decision to tear down the former Cascade Saloon — it occupies a prominent spot beside the railroad tracks downtown — left parties on all sides shaking their heads. read more Full Story »

GREENSBORO — Guilford County’s resettlement agencies are taking in too many refugees without enough resources to support them, faith leaders said this week. Recent concern has focused on the plight of newly settled Iraqis at the Hunters Glen Apartments, along with the story of a homeless Burmese refugee who arrived at Greensboro Urban Ministry’s shelter in November. read more Full Story »

GREENSBORO — A new school district survey shows conflicting ideas about performance-based incentive pay among employees. The district sent out a survey to all Guilford County Schools employees in October and released the findings this week. read more Full Story »

WENTWORTH — By April, chefs in Greensboro and Winston-Salem with a penchant for fresh, local produce might be able to go online and buy from a list of items grown by Rockingham County farmers. The new Local Food Coalition hopes to open its virtual farmers market for business by March 21 and sell to businesses and the public in the Piedmont Triad. read more Full Story »

Federal officials are investigating complaints that female softball athletes in Rockingham County high schools do not receive the same treatment as male baseball athletes. Jim Bradshaw, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Education, wrote in an e-mail to the News & Record that its Office for Civil Rights received complaints in June and that it has not determined their merit. read more Full Story »

On Thanksgiving, my family’s plans were to go to my mother’s to spend Thanksgiving with my parents, grandmother, brothers and sister, nieces and nephews as I have done for years. On that morning, however, my wife came down with one of her terrible migraines. My sons and I decided we would not leave her on this day, so we called to say we could not join them. read more Full Story »

GREENSBORO — Voters might get a second chance to consider a proposed aquatics center. Some City Council members are considering putting a bond referendum on the ballot in 2010, asking voters to pay an additional $6.8 million to build a swim center at the Greensboro Coliseum. read more Full Story »

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina regulators have signed off on a plan in which Duke Energy Corp.'s 1.8 million electric customers in the state will see their bills go up next month and rise 7 percent on average over the next two years — nearly half the increase originally sought by the utility. read more Full Story »

RALEIGH (AP) — After North Carolina was forced to release a series of wrongly convicted people from prisons early in the decade, leaders established a pioneering agency to swiftly assess claims of innocence. read more Full Story »

NEW YORK (AP) — The Minnesota-Carolina matchup Dec. 20 will remain the NFL's Sunday night game even though NBC had the option to choose another one. The league said Tuesday that the Green Bay-Pittsburgh game that day will start at 4:15 p.m. EST instead of 1 p.m. read more Full Story »

GREENSBORO - Recent rain has slowed the curbside collection of leaves in the city, causing a change in the pick-up schedule. Greensboro is extending the collection date for the first round of pickup by one week. New dates are: read more Full Story »

RALEIGH (AP) — Medical consumers can now check whether their doctor has been convicted of a crime, lost a malpractice lawsuit or negotiated a settlement to close a malpractice case. read more Full Story »

HIGH POINT (MCT) — It was a new day Monday for Sears Holding Corp. read more Full Story »

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Part of a route to North Carolina's ski country is closed because of rock slide fears. Multiple media outlets reported Tuesday that U.S. 321 is closed between Lenoir and Blowing Rock because engineers are concerned about large boulders that are loose on the side of the road. read more Full Story »

GREENSBORO — A historic house that sits at the entrance to Fisher Park — and at the center of a dispute between a neighborhood association and First Presbyterian Church — has run out of time. read more Full Story »

GREENSBORO — The newest City Council members dove into the details of the proposed coliseum aquatic complex Monday. At an afternoon briefing, the members questioned city staff and tourism officials on just about every aspect of the project — from its inception to the design to how it might be funded. read more Full Story »

GREENSBORO — When Deanna Sutphin looked at the small Christmas tree on a West Washington Street lawn, she was assured that drunken-driving victims like her son will be remembered. read more Full Story »

GREENSBORO — Along West Market Street, where the stores look like any commercial strip in America, he sits behind a small table between bottles of Jagermeister and Crown Royal. Some people don’t notice. Others crowd around his small table in the middle aisle. They ask for autographs and trade stories about a South that seems fabled. read more Full Story »

GREENSBORO — The United Way of Greater Greensboro has turned its focus to new corporate and individual donors to meet its $12.5 million goal. The agency is looking to people such as Gail McGroarty, the founder and co-owner of Shamrock Environmental in Browns Summit, who decided this year her company would match employee donations for the first time. read more Full Story »

It was unusually cold that particular Christmas Eve in Greensboro. Weather reports on the radio warned of freezing rain and hazardous driving conditions. But we were warm and secure, feeling particularly comfortable after a delicious holiday dinner as only Mother could prepare it. read more Full Story »

A group of Rockingham County leaders worked quietly over the past year to sow the financial seeds for a new organization that would help build a more knowledgeable and competitive work force. read more Full Story »

When his brother was dying of cancer, Bishop William L. Washington noticed that friends and family weren’t the only constant companions at Isiah Washington’s bedside. read more Full Story »

After approving some revisions, the High Point City Council approved the High Point University Area Plan Monday night. Some concerns have been raised about the university owning contiguous pieces of property in a block before applying for rezoning and the use of temporary edge areas, where the university plans to extend in the future once property has been obtained. read more Full Story »

GREENSBORO -- A local student and his partner are winners of a national science award. Northwest Guilford High senior Neil Shah and his partner, Yekaterina Shpanskaya, a Raleigh sophomore, are the first runners-up in the team division of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. The winners were announced today in New York City. read more Full Story »

FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Agents with North Carolina's criminal investigative agency are launching a probe into whether child welfare workers turned over complete records of their contacts with the family of a slain 5-year-old. read more Full Story »