Family keeps slain shopkeeper’s memory alive

Despite the best efforts of medical staff, Childress never emerged from a coma induced two weeks earlier, after emergency surgery to repair extensive damage to his cranium. Somebody armed with something blunt had made a mess out of the broad bones of his face.

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Mayberry-style progressive takes on arch conservative

The take from the door was going to Roy Carter, a former high school teacher and football coach challenging Republican incumbent Virginia Foxx for the 5 th Congressional District seat, but Obama volunteers were handing out stickers at the door and Tilden Hagan, son of the Democratic candidate for Senate, was chatting with visitors nearby.

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Landlords and advocates team up in demise of inspection program

E-mail hints at relaxing rental inspection procedure

As the city of Greensboro nears complete certification of more than 30,000 properties in its rental housing stock, the city’s inspections director has signaled to property management industry a willingness to exempt some properties from mandatory...

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Democrats take another crack at popular Republican congressman

Alamance County may be Ground Zero in North Carolina for the immigration debate, but among the Carolina Bank employees and Women’s Resource Center staff members gathered at a Habitat for Humanity worksite on a busy roadside on the northern outskirts of Burlington on a recent Thursday morning, the conversation took a decidedly empathetic tone.

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Gait Way: Road home for lost boys?

Fish kill raises questions about animal cruelty

Hundreds of dead fish have turned up in a lakebed on Koger Boule vard in southwest Greensboro. The lake has been draining for about a week, said Dan Essary, a field supervi sor with Guilford County Animal Control, who added that someone evidently opened the drain to release the water.

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Developers more assertive on panel to rewrite ordinance

Since November 2005, a dwindling panel of 18 Greensboro citizens has been poring over the city’s development ordinance to bring a code last revised in 1992 into the 21 st century.

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Frivolous business: Lawyers question doctor’s claims

Segal, founder of Medical Justice, patented a blend of contracts, contacts and legal threats that he claims inoculate doctors against frivolous lawsuits. His company currently has 1,700 physician subscribers nationwide and occupies a suite of offices on the third floor of the converted textile factory.

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But where will they put all these people?

City’s interest in Coliseum Inn could mean relocation of p

Like an unwanted sibling the Coliseum Inn has become almost as much a landmark on High Point Road as its namesake the Greensboro Coliseum, the hulking venue that has hosted everything from Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling matches and Grateful Dead concerts of years past to next month’s Central Carolina Fair.

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