During the Greensboro election campaign every one of the at-large candidates and those seeking district seats representing the city's east side have pledged to not reopen the White Street Landfill to municipal solid waste, an initiative pushed by retiring Councilman Mike Barber.

Author Jerry Bledsoe (left), lawyer Seth Cohen (center) and Rhinoceros Times Editor John Hammer left a Guilford County courtroom on Tuesday after a Wilkes County judge said he would take three weeks to consider arguments in a defamation lawsuit filed by two black officers.

Kill Knight, a retired certified public accountant, defeated one-term incumbent Yvonne Johnson in Greensboros mayoral race, a stunning upset, on Tuesday.

The Democratic city council candidates running for Winston-Salem City Council all won their races in Tuesday's general election. In the closely contested races, Democrats Dan Besse, Wanda Merschel, and Molly Leight all pulled out victories.

Mayor Yvonne Johnson has been known to show up for a neighborhood celebration, plop down in a chair with a child on her lap and observe the proceedings. Her Greensboro constituents are typically grateful to her for lending her presence. She'll return a reporter's phone call after 9 p.

Bill Knight, a 71-year-old retired certified public accountant who is challenging Yvonne Johnson for mayor, recalled that he would meet his best friend and former running buddy, David Williams, at Port City Java before his friend died.

In the summer of 2007, Joni and Michael Sweeney contracted Chuck Woolard's company, C&W Home Improvement Co., to build an addition to their home. When their basement began leaking water later that year, Joni Sweeney said she contacted Woolard, the Republican nominee running for the Southeast Ward seat on the Winston-Salem City Council, to repair the leak.

Lila Jordan, a 43-year-old resident of south Greensboro, passed a bullhorn among a dozen or so demonstrators on Green Valley Road outside of Sen.

Boyett cornered Guilford County Commissioner John Parks at a recent reception held for political candidates by the Triad Real Estate Building Industries Coalition, and asked him what it would take to beat Wade.

Trudy Wade, the incumbent candidate for Greensboro City Council in District 5, has missed three candidate forums. The two most recent fell on a week she was out of town for professional training. That doesn't appear to have bothered constituents in the city's southwest rim, who have turned to her for help with everything from crime and parks to traffic.