Greensboro police aren’t enforcing a NC Supreme Court decision against internet sweepstakes venues yet, despite sheriff’s departments throughout the state acting on the ruling to shut them down.

The city of Greensboro is inviting potential bidders to come up with plans to use methane gas emitted from the White Street landfill, and has posted a request for qualifications on its website.

Mayor BerniJOta Sims, at-large Councilman Britt Moore, Ward 1 Councilman Jeffrey Golden, Ward 3 Councilwoman Judy Mendenhall and Ward 5 Councilman Jim Davis voted to move ahead with the purchase. At-large Councilwoman Becky Smothers, Ward 2 Councilman Foster Douglas, Ward 4 Councilman Jay Wagner and Ward 6 Councilman Jason Ewing opposed the deal.

It’s all but certain that the Forsyth County Commission will vote to approve Mark Baker as the replacement for Debra Conrad, who has resigned her seat to serve in the NC House. The commission meets on Thursday in a special session to consider the recommendation of Baker by the Forsyth County Republican Party.

Winston-Salem Police Chief Scott Cunningham has announced that he will retire at the end of June 2013. Cunningham’s retirement will give him exactly five years in the position considering that he was sworn in on June 30, 2008.

Greensboro City Council has taken up a call to stop tree trimming around power lines. Residents in three neighborhoods, especially Westerwood, argued that the cuts were so severe that they constituted blight.

Starting on Jan. 1, 2014, new police officers will no longer be eligible for the program, which has allowed police officers to collect 55.5 percent of their highest salary upon retiring. The change, which requires approval from the full council, will not affect current or retired officers.

The city of Greensboro has come up with a draft ordinance for buskers to perform on public property. The ordinance lays out guidelines, including a permit and an annual $50 licensing fee, to govern the program, in which the city manager would designate acceptable performance areas and the number of collective performers would be limited to five.

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board voted on Nov. 20 to hire the NC School Boards Association to assist with the search for a new superintendent to replace Don Martin next June.

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In many primaries, if the candidate who wins the highest number of votes fails to win more than 40 percent, the second-place finisher can request a runoff. But Collicutt said High Point municipal elections are structured so that there are no runoffs..

The defense team for the North Carolina Latin Kings scored a win last week when a federal judge prevented the US government from presenting evidence to support an allegation that state leader Jorge Cornell bragged about killing a rival gang member during a bench conference in federal court last week.

The federal government has put several North Carolina Latin Kings — both former members and defendants who pleaded out — on the witness stand in the first six days of a trial in federal court in Winston-Salem as part of its criminal racketeering case against the organization.

Assistant US Attorney Robert AJ Lang pledged to members of the jury that the government would prove that each of the defendants entered into a conspiracy by agreeing that they would individually commit criminal acts such as arson, robbery, kidnapping, bank fraud and the sales of narcotics.

Greensboro’s downtown food-truck pilot program on Commerce Street has been drawing between 200 and 300 daily since it began Oct. 1, the city’s small-business coordinator Reggie Delahanty said in a memo last week. Weather has — unsurprisingly — played a significant role in turnout, as did First Friday.

“Later the chapter offered community service programs, including free breakfasts for school children, sickle cell anemia testing, and the Joseph Waddell People’s Free Ambulance Service, which received national acclaim,” the marker reads.

Greensboro police Chief Ken Miller reported last week that there haven’t been any complaints with the city’s new noise ordinance. City council requested that the ordinance’s implementation be monitored closely for 60 days without issuing any fines after strong community opposition to the initially proposed changes.

Currently serving as a Republican county commissioner, Conrad is favored to win the race to replace Rep. Dale Folwell in NC House District 74. Both the House and Senate are controlled by Republicans, who are looking to expand their majority in this year’s election.

Winston-Salem City Council voted 6-1 on Monday to approve an incentives package for Mast General Stores, a retail business founded in Valle Crucis in 1883 that has spread across the western Carolinas and east Tennessee providing an assortment of goods ranging from rocking chairs and jellies to high-end North Face hoodies and hammocks.

The federal agency had previously filed a “load-bearing study” on the 6th floor, one of several occupied by the US Department of Veterans Affairs, finding that the weight of file cabinets exceeded the limit of 125 pounds per square foot.