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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Two North Carolina churches recently suffered thousands of dollars in damage as their buildings and property were trashed and spray-painted with pro-homosexual messages. Officials at Bales Memorial Wesleyan Church in Jamestown arrived last Saturday to find the church sign broken and pelted with eggs and silly string. Some of the church windows had been smashed, flowers were uprooted and parking signs were ripped out the ground. The hood of the church bus was scratched as if it had been keyed, and a sign was shoved through the front grill. A number of messages were also spray painted...

The Guilford County Department of Social Services (DSS) scandal has left a mountain of questions in its wake as to how it came about, and now county officials investigating the matter are finally starting to get some answers. **SNIP** One Guilford County DSS employee told the Rhino Times this week that the problems in the department go very deep and this latest crisis is just one manifestation of those issues. “No management manages,” the employee wrote in an email. “No policy is completely followed. People are authorized benefits that are not thoroughly evaluated. Workers have to keep authorizing clients that...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Some Greensboro City Council members are having their trust of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum tested again after learning no one representing the museum ever signed loan papers. The loan from the city was for $1.5 million and wouldn’t have had to be paid back if certain conditions were met. The city paid the museum the first half of it — $750,000 — in October, but today the council learned the loan papers were never signed. Some council members are wondering if the city should ask for the money back.

A Civil Rights pioneer has died. Franklin McCain was one of four teenagers who sat down at an all-white lunch counter in Greensboro on February 1, 1960... The freshmen from North Carolina A&T ignited a sit-in movement in the Jim Crow south that led to other key chapters in the Civil Rights era... Initially McCain and the other men were known as the A&T Four, because what they did was viewed as so controversial. In time, the city adopted them as their own, and today they're more commonly known as the Greensboro Four...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A mom says her 5-year-old son was left in a locked daycare van for three hours. April Murphy’s son goes to The Academy of Spoiled Kids in Greensboro for after school care. On Wednesday Murphy was running late so she had a friend pick up her son from daycare. “The friend got to the daycare and the daycare told him that my child was absent or had already been picked up for the day,” explains April Murphy, who says her son was left in a daycare van.

777 plant in Greensboro?

GREENSBORO — Six teens were arrested or cited Thursday night after a gun was fired near downtown Greensboro among a large group of teens. There were also fights breaking out amongst the group. Those charged or cited Thursday included: •Kenyon C. Jordan, 20, charged with carrying a concealed gun and discharging a firearm inside the city limits; •George McCoy, 16, charged with affray; •Steven Lloyd, 16, cited for disorderly conduct; •Shyquan Chavis, 16, cited for assault on a law enforcement officer and resist, delay and obstruct a law enforcement officer. •Two juveniles were charged on juvenile referrals for disorderly conduct....

<p>A massive fight in downtown Greensboro Saturday night has some city leaders taking a hard look at bringing back the teen curfew.</p> <p>Nearly 400 people were involved in the several fights that happened along Elm Street.</p> <p>Greensboro police arrested 11 people ranging in age from 16 to 20-years-old. Officers had to use pepper spray and a stun gun to try to get the crowd under control. Greensboro Police Department had to call UNCG Police and Guilford County for extra help. Some officers minor injuries following the fights. As soon as one fight stopped another started.</p>

GREENSBORO, N.C.– A massive fight in downtown Greensboro Saturday night has some city leaders taking a hard look at bringing back the teen curfew. Nearly 400 people were involved in the several fights that happened along Elm Street. Greensboro Police arrested 11 people ranging in age from 16 to 20-years-old. Officers had to use pepper spray and a stun gun to try to get the crowd under control. Greensboro Police Department had to call UNCG Police and Guilford County for extra help.

Gingrich to speak at rally in Greensboro Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich will speak at a tax day rally in Greensboro next week. The event, hosted by Conservatives for Guilford County and called the ProsperiTEA Rally, will be held from noon to 3 p.m. April 14 at the Governmental Plaza, 301 W. Market St., in downtown Greensboro. Jeff Hyde, an organizer with Conservatives for Guilford County, said Gingrich is expected to speak at about 1:30 p.m.,

RALEIGH -- In an odd political bedfellows moment, three North Carolina congressmen - two progressive Democrats and one religious-right Republican - joined forces Monday to urge the Obama administration to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. At an anti-war town hall meeting in the Legislative Building, Republican U.S. Rep. Walter Jones and Democratic U.S. Reps.David Price and Brad Miller sought to keep the pressure on the administration to end the American combat operations by the middle of 2013. "Our concern is that too many times, administrations will say that the date for coming home is a year from now, 18 months...

Occupy protesters tidy up, leave siteBy Morgan Josey Glover - Staff Writer Monday, November 7, 2011 GREENSBORO — Gone are the tents, blankets and lawn chairs. The donated food, dishes and propane burners. The white boards, extension cords and protest signs. **SNIP** Permission to use the land ended Sunday. Members will resume meeting at least twice a week at Glenwood Coffee and Books, an independent bookstore, to discuss long-term strategies. Demonstrators also plan to stage a mock foreclosure of Bank of America on Friday at the company’s Green Valley Road branch. “A lot of people are worried about the Occupy...

This past weekend, a former mayor had his business vandalized and another community leader got beat up in Center City Park. "One of the teenagers came up from behind and just punched me in the back and kicked me and knocked me to the floor. Then, he just continued to kick me, punch me, step on me. People were screaming," Mitchel Sommers, executive director of the Community Theatre of Greensboro said. The swarm came from nowhere and the beating lasted seconds. "Within a minute, I'd say, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds...I'm not being dramatic...hundreds of young people...just came descending upon...

GREENSBORO -- A Pakistani man federal officials have said is linked to hijackers in the Sept. 11 attacks pleaded guilty today to voter fraud. Imtiaz Ahmed Siddiqui entered the plea in a brief federal court hearing in which no mention was made of the allegation that he may be acquainted with terrorists. Siddiqui, 31, answering questions in halting English, admitted he claimed to be a U.S. citizen when he filled out a voter registration form in Durham in August, though he is actually a Pakistani citizen. "Yes, I am," he said when U.S. District Judge James Beaty Jr., asked if ...

Former President Clinton in Greensboro for lectureThe Associated Press Tuesday, November 30, 2010 GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is visiting Greensboro for a lecture hosted by Guilford College. The event Tuesday evening at the Greensboro Coliseum is titled, "Embracing Our Common Humanity." It's part of an annual lecture series offered by the college. Clinton is the first U.S. president to take part in the Bryan Series. Other former heads of state who have participated in the talks include Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in 2004 and Mary Robinson of Ireland in 2006. Tickets to the event...

I don’t get angry very often. But I’m angry right now. On May 10th, I’m moving to Manitou Springs, Colorado, to teach all summer at Summit Ministries. I’m living in a cabin at the base of Pikes Peak, teaching a whopping two hours per week, and starting work on my third book. But, obviously, that’s not why I’m angry. I’m angry because I will be missing a very important event on May 22nd at UNC – Gomorrah, which was previously known as UNC- Greensboro, and is also sometimes referred to as UNC Gonorrhea. The UNCG Speech and Hearing Clinics –...

Note: The following text is a quote: North Carolina MS-13 Gang Member Convicted of Racketeering Charges Related to Murder; First MS-13 Member Sentenced to Death Defendant Shot and Killed Two Brothers in December 2007 in Guilford County, N.C. WASHINGTON—A 12-person federal jury in Charlotte, N.C., today voted unanimously to impose the death penalty against Alejandro Enrique Ramirez Umana, aka “Wizard,” 25. Umana was convicted by the same jury on April 19, 2010, for the murders of Ruben Garcia Salinas and his brother, Manuel Garcia Salinas, on Dec. 8, 2007, in Guilford County, N.C. The jury also found that Umana was...

A plane on its way to Dulles International in Washington, D.C. was diverted to Piedmont Triad International Airport Wednesday morning after a bomb threat. According to reports from multiple media outlets, Federal Aviation Administration officials said a Continental Airlines flight 3006 from Houston, Texas to Washington, D.C. landed in Greensboro at 10:45 a.m. after a bomb threat was called in at 10:20 a.m. According to sources, a the bomb threat was written on the mirror in the plane's bathroom. All 45 passengers were safely removed from the plane in Greensboro.

OK, so this is a total vanity, but I didn't see anything on FR about the Greensboro Tea Party today. Zot away, if I'm out of line, here. So, I was there. I'd guesstimate 2500-3000 people - the entire plaza in front of the courthouse was full, along with all of the staircases and balconies on the buildings surrounding the area. It was a really good turnout in my opinion. Parking was hard, Traffic was terrible - the worst I've ever seen in the city. I was hoping to hear from / talk to some of the local conservative candidates....

GREENSBORO, N.C. - An estimated 3,000 people from Greensboro and beyond braved frigid temperatures Monday morning to attend the International Civil Rights Center and Museum's grand opening exactly 50 years after the sit-in at the Elm St. Woolworth's, which now houses the museum. Museum cofounders Skip Alston and Rep. Earl Jones were joined by Rev. Jesse Jackson, Gov. Bev Perdue and other North Carolina legislators for a brief ceremony followed by an official ribbon cutting along the street just outside the building on South Elm St. Franklin McCain, Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell Blair Jr.) and Joseph McNeil -- the three...