The nation's economic crisis deepened in 2008, with a growing number of home foreclosures that culminated in the failure of a handful of banks and a federal government bailout passed by Congress weeks before the November election. It played out in the Triad and across North Carolina.

It is undeniable that Nov. 4, 2008 will be remembered as a turning point in our nation's history. On that night, Barack Hussein Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, took the stage before nearly a quartermillion people jammed into Grant Park in Chicago after being elected the 44th president of the United States.

More than a year ago the Greensboro Police Department unveiled a strategy to combat gangs that could be likened to chopping the head off a snake.

RN, a 13-year-old Burmese refugee, greeted the Muslim women from the Islamic Center of the Triad as they arrived in a convoy of minivans to the parking lot of Brookfield Woods apartments on Lawndale Drive in north Greensboro.

A private security guard accused of punching a Greensboro Transit Authority patron has been banned from working on city property, a city official confirmed Monday.

Blacks, Latinos and aspiring homeowners of other minority groups in Greensboro and High Point face significantly lower mortgage approval rates.

An investigator with the Greensboro Human Relations Department has concluded that a private security officer contracted by the city struck a young, Latino man and knocked him to ground at the Depot, which serves as a hub for the city’s public transit system. The report suggested the security officer’s handling of the incident was motivated by discrimination based on the man’s national origin, which would be a violation of the city’s public accommodation ordinance.

After the Greensboro City Council returned from an evaluation of City Manager Mitchell Johnson in closed session tonight, Mayor Yvonne Johnson announced, The decision of the majority was that the manager remain with no increase in compensation in other words, no raise.

David Parker, a Statesville lawyer, acknowledged hes been pegged on occasion as a Democratic Party insider. Sure, hes a member of the Democratic National Committee, he served as an elector in the primary, and he represents corporate clients in his practice.

A Guilford County district court judge acquitted Jorge Cornell of assaulting a police officer on Monday. The Almighty Latin King Queen Nation leader pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, and Judge Pete Hunter found him guilty of resisting and obstructing arrest.