Greensboro Area News

Greensboro to host intercontinental futsal tournament
The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area
The Greensboro Coliseum Complex will play host to the 13th annual Intercontinental Futsal Cup from June 27-30. Futsal is a surprisingly popular international game resembling soccer, but with a few key differences. Played indoors by five players on each ...

Retail, office park planned for northwest Greensboro
The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area (blog)
Greensboro developer Marty Kotis is planning an 80,000-square-foot shopping center with five retail outparcels and a 100,000-square-foot corporate park in northwest Greensboro, a development that could be a $25 million investment when fully built out.

Greensboro Patriots: Greensboro's First Baseball Team
WFMY News 2
Kernersville, NC -- Today's Kids Want To Know comes from the Kernersville Little League team,The Dodgers. "We want to know what was the first baseball team in Greensboro?" We know the Greensboro team now as the Grasshoppers. Before that they were ...

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Greensboro Bear Roams The City Again
WFMY News 2
Greensboro, N.C. -- You could call it another bear watch in Greensboro as police spotted the animal once again in the city. The bear was roaming around in the area of Corregidor Street early Friday morning. A police officer on patrol spotted the bear ...
Bear spotted in Greensboro (Video)myfox8.com
Bear spotted in Greensboro neighborhoodGreensboro News & Record

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Greensboro Bear Spotted At Harley-Davidson Store
WFMY News 2
Maybe he was looking for a wild ride as the Greensboro bear is back at it and was spotted at the Harley-Davidson store in Greensboro. Earlier on Friday the bear was also spotted by a Greensboro Police Officer who took video of the bear as it crossed a ...

Bear spotted in Greensboro (Video)
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Police say a bear was spotted Friday morning on Corregidor Street in Greensboro. The animal did not appear to threaten anyone, police said. It wandered into the nearby woods around 8 a.m. shortly after officers responded to the ...
Greensboro Bear Roams The City AgainWFMY News 2
Fourth bear spotted in GreensboroWinston-Salem Journal
Bear spotted in Greensboro neighborhoodGreensboro News & Record

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Greensboro Police Want Your Unwanted Guns
WFMY News 2
Greensboro, N.C. -- Police in Greensboro are offering gun owners another chance to remove unwanted firearms from their homes. Department workers are accepting handguns, rifles, shotguns, and ammunition at three Greensboro churches beginning Friday ...

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Levon Helm documentary playing in Greensboro
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — A documentary about Levon Helm, who many recognize from The Band, will be playing for the next several days at a Greensboro movie theater. Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm is playing through Thursday at the ...

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Flooding temporarily disrupts traffic on I-40 West in Greensboro
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Police say flooding temporarily affected traffic Friday morning on I-40 West near Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Police say the flooding was at its worst around 3:45 a.m. near exit 222. The interstate was not shut down, but drivers ...

NAACP tour comes to Greensboro
myfox8.com
The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP made several stops in the Triad Thursday as part of a 25 county tour. The group is protesting several pieces of legislation moving through the state General Assembly. While at a stop in Greensboro, one speaker ...
NAACP protest tour stops in Winston-SalemWinston-Salem Journal

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Greensboro woman fights off armed robber
myfox8.com
Greensboro woman fights off armed robber. Posted on: 6:18 pm, June 6, 2013, by Carter Coyle. GREENSBORO, N.C. — Police are investigating four armed robberies in Greensboro that may involve the same man, Spokesperson Susan Danielsen told FOX8.

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Police: Greensboro Woman Robbed At Her Front Door
WFMY News 2
Greensboro, NC -- Police are looking for a man who robbed a Greensboro woman right in front of the door to her home Wednesday night. Officers responded to the home on W. Terrell St. around 6:40 p.m. and met the victim who said the suspect appeared ...

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The world comes to Greensboro at the Mosaic Festival
Greensboro News & Record
Sarah Ivory, CWS's Greensboro director, says it celebrates the city's diversity. Her organization assists with refugee resettlement, but the event also showcases the cultures of those who aren't refugees. Participants range from newly arrived refugees ...

Thousands expected at Greensboro's Mosaic Festival
Greensboro News & Record
Mosaic Festival promo. A dance group performs at last year's Mosaic Festival. This year's festival is expected to draw thousands to downtown Greensboro to celebrate international music, food and art. Mosaic Festival promo (main). Courtesy of Ryan ...

Greensboro Fire Department ready in case of building collapse
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GREENSBORO, NC — The Greensboro Fire Department is one of three fire departments in North Carolina with the highest training and technology to be able to take over in case of a building collapse. Firefighter Tony Guerrini hadn't seen much of the ...

Foundations commit $3M toward Greensboro performance venue
The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area (blog)
The Greensboro City Council has agreed to commit $20 million in public funds toward the proposed $60 million downtown center, but that's contingent upon the Community Foundation raising $20 million in private donations. Greensboro attorney Kathy ...

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Greensboro Is Introducing 'Summer Night Lights', Offering Teenagers More To ...
WFMY News 2
Greensboro, NC -- Last summer, teenagers hanging out on city streets caused persistent problems for business owners and police. On July 4th last year, police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of 1,000 teenagers who were hanging out in Center City Park.

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Gas line explosions in Greensboro
The Augusta Chronicle
Several residents were being evacuated from their homes after multiple explosions involving a gas line in the northeast Georgia town of Greensboro. Authorities say the explosions happened shortly before 10 a.m. Tuesday in the town about an hour west of ...

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More details in Greensboro's sale of Bessemer center
Greensboro News & Record
The council voted 7-2 to start eminent domain proceedings to take the boarded-up Cascade Saloon from property owners Ross and Ann Strange. The three-story building on South Elm Street opened in 1896 and is a state historical landmark. But the building ...
Greensboro to sell Bessemer Shopping CenterThe Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area (blog)
Greensboro City Council considers proposals for Bessemer Shopping Centermyfox8.com
Disputing Development In East GreensboroWUNC
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Cascade Saloon fight in Greensboro
myfox8.com
“The people who own the building haven't made any investments in several years. Now it's at the point where it's deteriorating,” explained Benjamin Briggs with Preservation Greensboro. That's why, after many months of discussion, the city council voted ...
City of Greensboro Gains Control of Historic BuildingWFMY News 2

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