http://www.yesweekly.com/articles.sec-235-1-dirt.html 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. ]]> On the morning before Thanksgiving, Clyde Fitzgerald entered the shopping area of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina to find the shelves practically bare. ]]> John Young, a retired furniture-store owner guided, his Volkswagen Passat station wagon down James Doak Parkway, an easterly route studded with spacious houses built of fieldstone and brick with multiple gables, ample breezeways and rounded windows. The faux chateaus fanned across the landscape north of Greensboro. ]]> A black Boston terrier named Neo jumped up and down, as if on a springboard, trying to peek through the Plexiglass window above the four-foot-high retaining wall of the dog day care area of Downtown Hounds. Neo was one of 10 dogs placed in the care of co-owner Nicole Bianchi on Nov. ]]> The Warnersville Community Coalition unveiled a proposal on Nov. 20 to transform the historic JC Price School, which is owned by Greensboro College, into a "life enrichment and cultural center" that would include a senior center, youth performing and visual arts facilities, a historical museum and a business incubator. ]]> Employment Security Commission in Winston-Salem was the second stop of the day for Anthony Clinton. A freelance photographer, Clinton was eighth in line when he arrived shortly after noon on Nov. 12, and as he waited a number of other applicants filed in behind him. ]]> %uFFFDHow are all my green people?%uFFFD Yvonne Johnson asked. %uFFFDI%uFFFDm just so excited that we are here, and the committee is here, and that so many people are passionate about our green movement. I know I am. ]]> On Nov. 7, Wake Forest University students and visitors walked along the paved path that connects the university to Reynolda Village. Brightly colored leaves crunched underfoot as a young family took their toddler for a stroll. ]]> Greensboro RUCO Appeals and Advisory Board approved changes to the city%uFFFDs housing inspection ordinance that were hashed out over the past five months by a task force representing both landlord and tenant interests, with only minor revisions, on Nov. 6. ]]> So America is ready for a black president after all. As the returns came in on Tuesday night, first in spits and trickles, Barack Obama pulled ahead of John McCain slowly, capturing the dependably blue states of the East Coast to build an early lead. ]]> A national Democratic tsunami, a demographic sea change in North Carolina and the extraordinary candidacy of Barack Obama shifted the state into the blue column last night in a historic election. ]]> The week before Election Day, North Carolinians, like most Americans, were barraged with a vast array of political ads in every possible medium: print, internet, radio and television. As Nov. 4 neared, those messages increased in frequency and harshness of tone. ]]> Representatives of the Greensboro property management industry and tenant advocates hammered out a oneyear agreement on Oct. 30 to have the city re-inspect a fifth of certified rental housing from the outside, and subject a random 2 percent of that pool to full inspection. ]]> The slate gray skies of Alleghany County opened up with a steady downpour on the morning of Oct. 24 as a reporter traveled the highways and byways of northwest North Carolina, making his way to the first debate between US Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina%uFFFDs 5 th Congressional District, and her Democratic challenger, Roy Carter. ]]>