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GREENSBORO -- Vice presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will attend a fundraiser event on Oct. 16 in Greensboro, according to Joe Hauck at the New Breed Company in Greensboro. The event, which most likely won't be open to the public, will be held at the home of Louis DeJoy, president of Greensboro logistics copany New Breed, the News and Record reported. DeJoy is the state finance chair for the McCain/Palin ticket. Palin is also scheduled to make another swing through the Tarheel state leading up to Election Day in November. She will be attending a rally on the campus...

WASHINGTON – The brother-in-law of alleged terrorist co-conspirator Sami al-Arian attended engineering classes at the same college and time as the suspected mastermind behind the Sept. 11 terror plot, records at the North Carolina college show. The overlap raises questions about the extent of al-Arian's ties to terrorist groups. He and his brother-in-law, Mazen al-Najjar, have been accused by federal authorities of supporting Hamas, a Palestinian militia responsible for anti-Israeli suicide bombings, through an elaborate network of terrorist front groups and fund-raising arms. Mazen al-Najjar Al-Najjar, a Palestinian refugee, was arrested in 1997 and deported last year. Al-Arian, who also...

Wyndham is last chance for players to seize FedExCup points  Aug. 13, 2007 By Dave Shedloski PGATOUR.com Senior Correspondent August, and everything after. K.J. Choi already has two victories this year on the PGA TOUR. (WireImage) That's the title of a musical work from the Counting Crows, but it's also a worthy theme for this crucial upcoming stretch of the PGA TOUR season, the first of the new era and the FedExCup playoffs.This week's Wyndham Championship at Forest Oak Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., merges the old and the new into one big event that signals both the end of...

Cindy Sheehan to Visit Lynchburg WSLS NewsChannel 10 Jul 12, 2007 Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan - best known for setting up camp near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas - will be in Lynchburg next Thursday. The Hill City is one of 18 stops on Sheehan's planned Journey for Humanity, which began Tuesday in Crawford and will end with a rally in Central Park on July 27-28. Just last month, the 50-year-old Californian - drawn into opposition to the Iraq war after her soldier son Casey died in it - had declared that she was retiring from public activism. She...

GREENSBORO - Most churches can only dream that their finances would be good enough that the congregation could dole out $1.7 million for needy causes. North Pointe Fellowship of Greensboro is the little church that could. Although attendance at the 100-year-old church Southern Baptist church has dwindled to only eight people, the church recently gave $1 million to Southern Baptists' Lottie Moon international missions offering. Another $700,000 was divided among six other projects or agencies that the tiny church thought needed financial help. Don Smith, 75, treasurer and lay leader of the church remnant, said that donations went to Samaritan's...

Two hospitals are asking visitors, especially children, to stay away until they control an outbreak of a highly contagious stomach virus that has sickened patients and staff members. "We're just asking the community to help out," said Dr. Ward Robinson, an infectious disease specialist at Moses Cone Hospital. "I don't think this is the black plague coming into Greensboro." Doctors confirmed an outbreak at the hospital and believe the virus also has hit Wesley Long Hospital. The number of people affected wasn't immediately available, hospital officials said. Three suspected norovirus cases first appeared on Feb. 1 and were not confirmed...

Saturday February 10, 6:08 AM Honda to build new jet in North Carolina WILMINGTON, North Carolina, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Honda Aircraft Co. Inc. will build its new light jet, the HondaJet, at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina, Gov. Michael Easley's office said on Friday. The Honda Motor Co. Ltd. subsidiary will invest up to $100 million over the next five years to build an aircraft manufacturing plant and expand the Greensboro operation it established in August to oversee production, certification, sales and service of the aircraft, Easley said. He described the HondaJet as a lightweight private...

Nine arrested in protest of Iraq decision By Joe Killian Staff Writer The nine people arrested Thursday. (Nelson Kepley/News & Record) Nelson Kepley/News & Record The nine people arrested Thursday. (buy photo) GREENSBORO — Nine protesters were arrested Thursday during a demonstration downtown against President Bush's decision to increase troop levels in Iraq. One was taken to the ground with a Taser. The rally began at around 4:30 p.m. with chanting, signs and music from a local drum corps. Drivers in cars honked their support as they passed through Elm and Market streets. The crowd swelled from a few dozen...

President Bush spent the day in North Carolina Traveling with the president were Press Secretary Tony Snow and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings After arriving in Greensboro, NC, the president enjoyed a barbeque lunch at Stamey’s Restaurant, then visited nearby Waldo C. Falkener Elementary School where he spoke about the No Child Left Behind initiative. Later, President Bush traveled a few miles further south to visit The Victory Junction Gang Camp in Randleman, NC, then on to speak at a private GOP fundraiser. Enjoy your Wednesday visit to Sanity Island

A private burial for Walter Burke Davis Jr., a writer and historian best known for his books on the Civil War, was held Aug. 21 in Greensboro, N.C. Mr. Davis, whose 47 books included novels and biographies, died Aug. 18 in a Greensboro hospital. The former resident of Meadows of Dan in Patrick County, who also wrote fiction and nonfiction for young readers, was 93.

Greensboro Leaders To Take Polygraph ExamLeaked Report Is Subject Of Investigation UPDATED: 5:15 pm EDT May 2, 2006 GREENSBORO, N.C. -- City leaders are looking for the truth through the use of a polygraph exam. Some members of the City Council are taking the exam to prove they didn't release to the media a confidential report about the police department. Council members voted 8-1 to submit to the exam. Dianne Bellamy Small gave the dissenting vote and has said in the past that she's not responsible for the leak. Another member of the council, Yvonne Johnson, said she didn't like...

DURHAM - The national chairman of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense says his group intends to march at Duke University on Monday to "deal directly" with lacrosse players about charges of rape of an escort service dancer at a team party. Duke's campus police are coordinating with the Durham Police Department to prepare for the black-separatist group, which has a reputation for coming to its protests armed. Malik Zulu Shabazz, a Washington lawyer who is the leader of the New Panthers, said he will be in Durham to rally with local black leaders and monitor progress of the...

WESTWOOD ONE LAUNCHES THE MONICA CROWLEY SHOW --New Program to Air Saturdays, Noon - 3 p.m. ET-- Beginning Saturday, April 1, 2006 New York, NY Monday, Mar 20, 2006 - Westwood One (NYSE: WON) is proud to announce the national launch of The Monica Crowley Show, the three-hour talk program hosted by author and news personality Monica Crowley. The show begins Saturday, April 1, 2006, and will air from noon to 3 p.m. ET. The Monica Crowley Show will debut on major market stations across the country including: WABC-AM New York, WTKK-FM Boston and WTNT-AM Washington DC. The show will...

GREENSBORO — Five protestors attending an anti-Bush rally in Greensboro on Tuesday night assaulted a plain-clothes officer trying to take their picture, according to police. Greensboro police described the following version of events, according to a press release: As officers monitored a group of 130 protestors on Elm Street, a small portion of that crowd moved away, proceeding east on Lewis Street. Several in the smaller group then assaulted a plain-clothes officer as he tried to photograph them, police said. Uniformed officers then responded to that area. Kenneth Wayne Harris, 24, of 621 Fairmont St., was charged with assault on...

Embattled Greensboro Police Chief Resigns 10 minutes ago Greensboro Chief of Police David Wray has announced his resignation. In a letter dated Monday morning, Wray said events of the past several months created controversy and hurt his ability to lead the force. Assistant Chief Tim Bellamy was named acting chief effective immediately, according to City Manager Mitchell Johnson. Wray has dealt with allegations of a unit in his department targeting officers with investigations based on race. Johnson is reviewing a report concerning the accusations. Scheduling of officers has also caused unrest in the department. Johnson last month told Wray he...

Judicial society announces Greensboro location Michelle Cater Rash The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area - 3:09 PM EST Monday The American Judicature Society formally announced Monday that its new Institute of Forensic Science and Public Policy will be coming to downtown Greensboro. Close to 100 city leaders, attorneys and judges gathered in the former City Club on the top floor of the Jefferson Pilot building for the announcement. The institute will be a think tank to look at forensic science standards for use by law enforcement agencies, attorneys and courts. The institute will be advised by the society's...

GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Ku Klux Klan leader who was at a workers' rally more than 25 years ago where five people died and 10 others were injured gave defiant testimony to a commission Saturday, saying "maybe God guided the bullets." Virgil L. Griffin of Mount Holly, imperial wizard of the Cleveland Knights of the KKK, said someone in the crowd of Communist Workers Party marchers fired first and hit a van driven by a Klansman. "We had every right to drive down that street with nobody touching the cars," he said. "I didn't come to shoot or kill anybody."...

GREENSBORO — The ACLU of North Carolina on Monday accused state court officials of not responding quickly enough to a controversy involving the use of the Quran for courtroom oaths. The group’s legal foundation is calling on the state Administrative Office of the Courts to adopt a policy allowing the Quran and other religious texts for oath-taking in North Carolina courtrooms. A Greensboro Muslim group has been waiting for an AOC decision for three weeks after Guilford County’s two top judges decided that Muslims could not legally take an oath on the Quran. “We think they are dragging their feet,”...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Legislators may be asked to decide if the Quran and other religious texts can be used for courtroom oaths, said a spokesman for the agency that manages state courts, as the ACLU pressed for a response on the texts' use. The legal foundation of the ACLU of North Carolina has called on the state Administrative Office of the Courts to adopt a policy allowing the Quran and other religious texts for oath-taking in North Carolina courtrooms. The request came after Guilford County's two top judges decided that Muslims could not legally take an oath on the Quran....

Arrest Made In Greensboro Bomb Threats 33 minutes ago WXII ThePiedmontChannel.com Police in Greensboro said Wednesday that a 16-year-old has been arrested in connection with a series of recent bomb threats. Tony Wayne Moore was arrested late Tuesday night at a residence on Cranbrook Street, police said. He is charged with 20 felony counts of making false reports concerning a destructive device, according to authorities. More than 50 bomb threats have been called in to various businesses and government buildings since March 24. Police said the bomb threats are not terrorist related. "We did look at this and found no...

I recently read about a very disturbing incident that happened just last week — literally in my own back yard. Federal agents arrested 27 illegal immigrants at the Piedmont/Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina, not very far from where I live. What were these guys doing when they were arrested? They were working on commercial jet airliners! You know, like the ones that al Qaeda terrorists flew into the Twin Towers on 9-11. This strikes me as a pretty lax approach to national security. These 27 men originally came from a variety of countries, including Sudan, Chile, Peru, Zimbabwe,...

(GREENSBORO) - Greensboro's Muslim community wants an apology from a police officer who they say broke the shoulder of a 68-year-old Egyptian-American woman. Afaf Saudi, who's accused of resisting police officers and assaulting an employee of a Wal-Mart store on Saturday, also suffered a broken rib, a mild heart attack and cuts and bruises on her wrists. She remains in Moses Cone Hospital awaiting shoulder surgery. Wajeh Muhammad, treasurer of the Islamic Center of the Triad, wants the city to pay for the woman's medical bills and for the officer responsible to issue an apology in a language she can...

GREENSBORO — Twelve witnesses say a police officer didn’t use excessive force when he arrested an elderly Egyptian woman at Wal-Mart on Saturday, according to police Chief David Wray. But an Islamic leader says he’s sticking by 68-year-old Afaf Saudi’s claim that an officer broke her shoulder and her rib when he dragged her to his patrol car. The Muslim community wants an apology — issued in Arabic or French. Saudi was charged with refusing to leave the Battleground Avenue store, resisting arrest and assaulting an employee by kicking him in the chest. Wray said Monday an investigation is under...

In Greensboro, Gorbachev critiques U.S. war with Iraq Justin Catanoso The Business Journal 3:42 PM EDT Thursday Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev, in his first-ever visit to North Carolina, decried the lack of world leadership in general and specifically criticized the United States' war with and occupation of Iraq. "Implanting models from the West has never worked; you must take into account the uniqueness of other cultures," said Gorbachev, who while president moved to extricate his country from a losing cause in Afghanistan in the mid-1980s. Gorbachev, 73, met with local journalists Wednesday evening at the Greensboro Coliseum complex...

Join Protest Warrior at the "Welcome Home" rally for "Senator" John Edwards at North Carolina A & T University (Greensboro, NC). The event will be held on the parade grounds across from the Dudley Memorial Building on Wednesday night, October 6 at 7:00 pm.

North Carolina A&T University will host a welcome home rally with John and Elizabeth Edwards on Wednesday.

Before I give the details of today's Kerry rally FReep, I must commend fellow FReeper Mike Fieschko for driving from Raleigh to Greensboro early this messy morning to help me with this pro-Bush demonstration. If I missed any other members of FR who were in attendance, I apologize. A rainy morning awaited Mike Fieschko and myself two hours prior to the 11:00 am Kerry rally in Greensboro, NC. We FReepers were the first two demonstators to show up (for either side) as we were directed by police across the street from the rally's venue. Those 500 "lucky souls" with tickets...

Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry is coming to Greensboro Tuesday (all 500 tickets sold out).

Presidential candidate John Kerry will be visiting Greensboro on Tuesday during a townhall style meeting at the Downtown Depot.

http://www.wxii12.com/index.html

Democratic Vice Presidential hopeful John Edwards is planning a trip to the Piedmont. Edwards will visit North Carolina A & T State University on Monday afternoon.

Democratic Vice Presidential hopeful John Edwards is planning a trip to the Piedmont. Edwards will visit North Carolina State University on Monday afternoon.

Justice Department dispatching 'Impact Teams' WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department is dispatching teams of federal agents to 15 cities struggling with violent crime problems despite a dropping U.S. crime rate, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday. Ashcroft told reporters that the effort would be targeted at "the hottest zones of criminal activity" in cities where high murder and violence rates persist despite a violent crime rate that is at a 30-year low nationwide, based on federal victimization statistics. Tulsa, Oklahoma, which had a record 69 homicides committed in 2003, is one of the 15 cities receiving assistance. The initiative...

Project Homestead backers rail against media GREENSBORO — A group of prominent black leaders and politicians warned Monday that Project Homestead will collapse unless the News & Record ends its “negative publicity” of the nonprofit, low-income housing builder. “It is virtually impossible for Project Homestead to continue to operate in this climate,” said state Rep. Alma Adams, a Greensboro Democrat who led the press conference held by the “Friends of Project Homestead” at Homestead’s former headquarters on Martin Luther King Drive. “The newspaper is intent on destroying this organization,” declared state Rep. Earl Jones, also a Greensboro Democrat. News &...

NC Freepers, As most of you know, I started a petition to speak out against the Hollywood so called ant-war movement. We all know that the movement is anti-Bush. A reader wrote to Greensboro's News and Record charging me with wanting to silence celebrities and to refuse their freedom of speech. This has never been the case and celebrity (the left) supporters know this, it's the only argument they can make against my petition. My husband Scott responded to the reader, and wouldn't you know it, the News and Record called my husband and said that his letter could not...

Terror Suspect Arrested in North Carolina

Aycock bars essay contest after parents complain 8-28-02 By JIM SCHLOSSER, Staff Writer News & Record GREENSBORO -- Aycock Middle School has told the Guilford United Daughters of the Confederacy that the chapter's annual essay contest is no longer welcomed at the school. Aycock history teacher Jean Botzis, in a letter to chapter President Margaret Carver, said that after an Aycock student won local and state UDC essay contests last spring, "I have come to understand more fully the philosophy and goals of the UDC and found them to be against the basic goals of Aycock Middle School." Botzis, who...