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Wednesday, November 18,2009

Jury hung on whether security officer assaulted Latin King

By Jordan Green
A Guilford County jury found a private security officer not guilty of injury to personal property last week, but was deadlocked over whether the defendant assaulted a member of the Latin Kings street organization at Greensboro's primary transportation hub in July 2008.
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Wednesday, November 18,2009

Labor activist gets his day in court

By Keith Barber
The 10-foot by 20-foot mobile billboard parked in front of the Forsyth County Hall of Justice on Nov. 13 spelled out the crux of Ray Rogers' legal defense in response to charges levied by Reynolds American that the 65-year-old president of Corporate...
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Wednesday, November 18,2009

bidness

By Jordan Green
Regional Road, 4905 Koger Blvd. and 1701 Pinecroft Road. The third location is situated near the heavily traveled High Point Road corridor, and is considered part of Greensboro's urban progress zone. The urban progress zone is made up of census tracts where more than 20 percent of residents fall below the federal poverty threshold.
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Wednesday, November 18,2009

Effort to provide disclosure on solid waste vendors scuttled

By Jordan Green
The Greensboro City Council was scheduled to discuss a proposal Tuesday night requiring anyone with a request before council to disclose all communications with elected officials, including private companies seeking to contract with the city to handle its solid waste.
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Wednesday, November 11,2009

Prison ministry offers different perspective on crime and punishment debate

By Keith Barber
At age 19, Calvin LaFrance got involved in a fight "that went terribly wrong" and he wound up being convicted of second-degree murder. Ten years later, LaFrance is serving out his sentence at Forsyth Correctional Center in Winston- Salem. LaFrance said he's experienced a change of heart during his years of incarceration.
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Wednesday, November 11,2009

Survivors of 1979 shootings sense unfinished business on anniversary

By Jordan Green
Paul Bermanzohn, Sally Bermanzohn and Willena Cannon (l-r), all survivors of the 1979 Klan-Nazi shootings in Greensboro's Morningside Homes, sing "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the beginning of a ceremony to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the incident.
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Wednesday, November 11,2009

Cancer rate higher than expected near landfill

By Jordan Green
"Remember our former city councilwoman, Claudette Burroughs-White, who mentioned that she was 'a walking time bomb' with all the exposure she had to the landfill from birth to death," area resident Mary Lou Clapp said in remarks to city council in early June.
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Wednesday, November 11,2009

Turning the dirt: A low ebb in black

By Jordan Green
The day after her electoral defeat, Johnson appeared at a ceremony to commemorate the 1979 Klan-Nazi killings in a stoic but sad state. Leaving New Light Missionary Baptist Church, she said, "A lot of people have come to me and said, 'We failed you and we didn't do what we could have done.
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Wednesday, November 4,2009

Politicians, community leaders consider proposals for White Street Landfill

By Jordan Green
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.
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Wednesday, November 4,2009

Judge to rule on whether black cops can have Sanders tapes

By Jordan Green
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.
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