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Fund established for children of slain couple

REIDSVILLE — A fund has been set up for the children of Douglas Troy and LaDonna French, the couple killed during a home invasion last weekend.read more

State offers solution in Guilford County redistricting lawsuit

GREENSBORO - The N.C. General Assembly has offered a solution in the legal battle over its controversial redrawing of Guilford County voting districts. The plan would put all...

Rameses the 18th dies; Bam Bam in line to replace him

Rameses, North Carolina's 18th ram mascot, died Thursday night of natural causes. He was 8 years old.read more

Unemployment benefits at risk again for state's jobless

RALEIGH -- Thousands of jobless people in North Carolina again face the prospect that their unemployment benefits will expire at the end of this month as Democrats and Republicans...

Greensboro man arrested in early morning shooting

GREENSBORO — Greensboro police arrested a man early Saturday morning in connection with a shooting that occurred shortly after midnight. Police were called to 912 Park Ave....

Neighbor arrested in Greensboro breaking and entering

GREENSBORO – Police arrested a Greensboro man today after a woman said he broke into her home early this morning. Officers responded at 1 a.m. to 2311 Acorn Drive to a home...

Highway Patrol keeping a closer eye on you from afar

RALEIGH -- For more than 35 years, the state Highway Patrol's emergency communications center was housed in a white cinderblock building with only two screens to monitor live...

Backstabbers a sad shock to Charlotte bachelorette

CHARLOTTE -- Blakeley Shea says tense times with the other women during filming of "The Bachelor" were bad enough, but reliving the experience by watching the show is...

Study: Wait times for psychiatric beds still 'excessive'

The number of Forsyth County behavioral-health patients experiencing a long wait for a state psychiatric hospital bed remains stubbornly high, according to a study by a Raleigh...

Huge Reynolds art sale attracts hundreds of potential buyers

WINSTON-SALEM -- Having recently moved to a smaller place, John and Bettie Lee were looking to get rid of some of the things they'd collected through the years -- not add to...

High Point council members question police chief's appointment

HIGH POINT -- High Point City Council members Foster Douglas and Mike Pugh are criticizing the selection process for naming High Point's new police chief, but were...

Deadline looms for High Point Regional Hospital on Medicare issue

HIGH POINT -- High Point Regional Hospital has just hours to be cleared by the federal government to continue receiving Medicare funding. The hospital's Medicare funding was...

Symposium aims for answers on mysterious N.C. lights

MORGANTON (AP) — A Burke County symposium is aiming to provide some answers on mysterious lights that have puzzled generations of observers around Brown Mountain.read more

N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences hosts Darwin Day

RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is offering patrons a chance to find out why oysterscatchers have long, sharp bills, or why a kind of African...

Woman charged in husband's fatal shooting

ASHEBORO — A Climax woman has been charged with fatally shooting her husband and placing his body in an outbuilding Thursday. On Friday, Randolph County sheriff's deputies...

Deputies seize guns, phones in homicides

WENTWORTH — The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office seized firearms, computers and cellphones from the house of Douglas and LaDonna French, who were killed in an...

Inside today's e-edition

Available today in the News & Record's electronic edition: News: Guilford County has logged no job growth over the past 12 years. There were fewer people working in...

Wake Forest hires 2 football assistants

WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Wake Forest has added two assistants to its football staff. Coach Jim Grobe said Friday that Jonathan Himebauch will coach the offensive line and...

McIntyre to run for Congress, not N.C. governor

LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre has decided to seek re-election to Congress this year instead of running for North Carolina governor.read more

Police seize drugs, rifle from Lindley Park home in standoff

GREENSBORO — Greensboro police seized marijuana, a rifle and ammunition from the home of the man charged with shooting at a officer and starting a 15-hour standoff with...

Greensboro's Isner beats Federer in Davis Cup match

Greensboro native John Isner has notched the biggest single victory of his career so far, defeating Roger Federer in four sets at a Davis Cup tennis match today in Fribourg,...

Pictures of the week

Here's a look at pictures of the week selected by Rob Brown, the News & Record's director of photography.Click here to view the photo gallery.read more

How $300M in Triad contracts will draw a crowd

Want to draw a crowd in this economy? Mention that you’ve identified $300 million worth of business to award in 2012 from local governments, colleges, universities and...

Top of the List: The Triad's busiest caterers

This week we're taking a look at something you can really sink your teeth into -- the busiest caterers in the Triad. Caterers were ranked by the total number of catering...

How a smartphone app can help businesses with site selection

Smartphone apps aren’t all just Angry Birds. While games dominate the app marketplace, there’s also a strong business applicability to many apps that local experts...

Aldi: News of store in northwest Greensboro 'premature'

GREENSBORO -- Aldi company officials now say an earlier report that it would open a new store in northwest Greensboro was premature.read more

Greensboro plastics manufacturer Intertech adding capacity

Intertech Corp. is adding to its production capacity at its 120,000-square-foot facility on North O'Henry Boulevard in Greensboro in response to customer demand for custom...

LabCorp earnings up

Laboratory Corp. of America posted net income of $135.4 million in the fourth quarter on revenues of $1.37 billion, according to an earnings announcement. That's an increase...

UNCG building earns LEED Gold certification

GREENSBORO — The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded UNCG's new School of Education building LEED Gold certification. LEED (Leadership in Energy and...

PART gets clearance from auditors

The Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation has corrected accounting problems that were a concern to the U.S. Federal Transit Administration, several local media outlets...

North Carolina freshman P.J. Hairston sidelined by foot injury

First lady teams up with chefs for tasty school lunches

DALLAS (AP) — Michelle Obama is spicing up school lunches with cooks from Bravo's "Top Chef" and the Dallas Cowboys football team. The first lady and "Top...

Third person charged in Burlington homicide

BURLINGTON — A 23-year-old man is the third person to be charged in last weekend's slaying of a Burlington woman.Burlington police said today that Keith Antonio Graves of...

Feds investigating door fires in 2007 Camrys, RAV4s

DETROIT (AP) — Federal safety regulators are investigating reports of fires in the driver's side doors of 2007 Toyota Camry sedans and RAV4 crossover SUVs.The probe could...

Smith Reynolds Airport awarded $1.85M for taxiway project

The state Division of Aviation has awarded Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem $1.85 million in federal block grant funds for a taxiway improvement project. The taxiway...

What the Greensboro Partnership wants for the city

The Greensboro Partnership has reaffirmed its commitment to five industry clusters along with supporting collaborative education efforts between the public and private sectors and...

Amid protests, UNC system approves tuition, fees hikes

CHAPEL HILL — Amid chants of protest from about 100 students, the UNC Board of Governors this morning approved President Tom Ross' proposal for tuition and fee hikes over...

Update: Planned Pisgah Forest burn postponed

PISGAH FOREST (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has postponed a 1,200-acre prescribed burn in the Bearpen Mountain area in of the Pisgah Ranger District in the Pisgah National...

N.C. police charge teen with counterfeiting cash

CONOVER (AP) — Police in two western North Carolina towns have charged an 18-year-old in an ongoing probe of counterfeit cash in Catawba County.read more

Store worker charged with stealing $237K worth of electronics

REIDSVILLE — A Schewels employee has been charged in connection with the theft of about $237,000 worth of electronics.Reidsville police said Toby Sean Dishmon, 36, of 87...

Big Four players head ACC legends class

Former players Kenny Dennard of Duke, Kenny Smith of North Carolina, Todd Fuller of N.C. State and Randolph Childress of Wake Forest will be among those honored in the 2012 class...

Why Bank of America is the new Citigroup

NEW YORK (AP) — On a normal day, 4 billion shares of stock change hands on the New York Stock Exchange. One in 10 belongs to a single company. It's not McDonald's or IBM,...

Davidson teacher from 'Extreme Makeover' succumbs to cancer

Tricia Creasey, a Davidson County teacher whose struggle with cancer was featured on the TV show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," has died.Creasey died about 2:30 p.m....

Former police officer charged in theft of his own art

APEX — Keith Adams says he simply wanted to reclaim more than 30 of his paintings that were inside Bistro 155, a restaurant that had recently closed.read more

Former Raleigh resident plans to plead guilty to kidnapping girl in '87

A former Raleigh resident accused of kidnapping a 3-week-old girl from Harlem Hospital in 1987, then raising the child as her own, is expected to plead guilty to charges in New...

Durham firefighter climbs Empire State Building

DURHAM -- Touche Howard stepped up big time Wednesday night.The Durham city firefighter climbed to the 86th floor of the Empire State Building in New York City as part of a...

UNC says no to gender-neutral housing

CHAPEL HILL -- UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp has recommended against a proposal to implement a gender--neutral pilot housing program at the university.read more

N.C. House panel meets to review death penalty, race

RALEIGH (AP) — A House committee examining whether North Carolina laws should change based on evidence of racial bias in death penalty cases is holding its first...

Civil War group gives money to save officer's coat

RALEIGH (AP) — A group of Civil war re-enactors are donating $10,000 so that a coat worn by a North Carolina officer wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg can be...

Greensboro Partnership outlines to-do list

GREENSBORO — The Greensboro Partnership, the city’s chief economic and community development organization, has a new to-do list. And it’s a long one, running to...