Officers with the Winston-Salem Police Department responded to an armed robbery at the Harris Teeter on Peace Haven Road on Monday. The suspect entered the store and pointed a handgun at the clerk. He demanded money and was given an undetermined amount of cash.

Greensboro police responded to two different robberies suspected to have been committed by the same individual on May 29. The robberies occurred at about 12:30 a.m. on North Church Street and about 4:30 a.m. on Woodside Drive.

Winston-Salem Police responded to a report of a black man lying in the street at the intersection of Green and Cotton streets on May 24. When they arrived, Norris Mitchell had sustained a gunshot wound to the leg.

The Winston-Salem Police Department is searching for a man suspected of fraudulently impersonating an officer and obtaining property under false pretenses. On May 15, a man identifying himself as Detective Joe Kennedy visited an 81-year-old woman at her home.

James Chadwick Shearin surrendered peacefully and uninjured about 5:33 p.m. on May 7 at approximately 5:33 p.m. after barricading himself in his residence at 15 Moss Cove Court in Greensboro near Cornwallis Drive. He had been in his house for almost two hours.

While traveling on Northwest Boulevard shortly after 9 a.m. on May 1, Winston-Salem Police Officer C. Dorville observed Ronald Moore, 60, and Daniel Pratt, 27, arguing and preparing to fight. When Officer Dorville stopped to investigate, Pratt fled the scene on a moped.

On April 16, a man in a black hoodie, a mask and wearing an orange traffic vest robbed the State Employee’s Credit Union on Peace Haven Road in Clemmons. He jumped the counter, took an undisclosed amount of money and dumped it in a trashcan before running out of the bank.

Officers with the Winston-Salem Police Department assisted the city’s fire department in response to a house fire on Rockbridge Court on April 16. Police helped locate homeowner Angela Cockman at work to notify her of the fire.

Larry Clifton Burnett Jr., 22, has been charged with felony hit and run for his alleged involvement in a collision between a white Volvo and a 500cc motor scooter that occurred near 800 W. Market St. on Tuesday in Greensboro on April 9.

Winston-Salem police have charged Henry Clifford Byrd Sr. on charges of first degree rape of a child and indecent liberties with a child. The charges followed an investigation that began on March 23, when police responded to the New Bethel Baptist Church on Trade Street, where Byrd had allegedly raped a minor.

On March 29, an armed white man, around 6 feet tall, in a bomber jacket walked into the Rite Aid on Randleman Road in Greensboro demanding Oxycodone. While the pharmacist was filling the order, the man left the store. Nothing was reported stolen. I hear you, bro.

Winston-Salem police arrested a former Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools employee and two-time NC House candidate on two counts of communicating a threat on March 22. Christina Vazquez, 54, allegedly threatened to shoot school system administrative personnel during a phone call with the administrative office.

Two African-American males approached a waitress at Sonic at 915 Summit Avenue in Greensboro and robbed her at knifepoint as she took an order, police reported on March 15. Suspects have since been apprehended, but no word in the report about whether or not they forced the woman to empty her ’50s-style change dispenser.

Greensboro police responded to gunshots fired at a BP gas station on Randleman Road shortly after 3 a.m. on March 7. When they arrived on the scene, they observed two men in a Honda sedan shooting at the victim’s Lincoln. Although no one was injured, bullets struck the victim’s car and the BP station.

We can all rest easy as the Winston-Salem Window Shooters have been arrested. If you’ve been following, a series of streets and parking lots have had problems with BB guns blowing out windows.

An eastbound freight train struck and killed 26-year-old Jermaine Kwado Gyamfi of Greensboro on the afternoon of Feb. 20. Gyamfi was standing along the tracks above South Benbow Road when the collision occurred. EMS pronounced him dead on the scene. The investigation is ongoing.

Preserving the legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers, a group of African-American cavalrymen, Greensboro Police rode with area motorcyclists on Saturday.

A High Point police officer attempted to make a traffic stop on Lynn Christopher Baskins, 27, shortly before 4 a.m. on Monday. When approached, Baskins sped away and, following a short pursuit, crashed his car into the Emergency Room entrance at High Point Regional Hospital.

The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office arrested former Eastern Guilford High School teacher Roger Brice Redding Williams Jr. and charged him with statutory rape of a child, indecent liberties with a child and sex offense with a student on Jan. 31.

Winston-Salem police charged Rose Hinson with embezzling $4,000 from St. Benedicts the Moor Catholic Church on Monday. Hinson is accused of taking the money out of the church’s special activity fund checking account over a nine-month period while she was acting as a volunteer treasurer.