Bennett College will have to appeal to keep its accreditation, while St. Augustine’s was taken off probation. Although the historically black institutions’ fates may be different, both struggled under the same pressures.
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A team of former federal special agents with a rich background investigating public corruption and fraud will dig through documents and interview members of Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration to determine whether his $57.8 million Atlantic Coast Pipeline discretionary fund was a political pay-to-play scheme.
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The first snow of the season led the city of Greensboro and Guilford County to declare states of emergency Sunday. Local schools will be closed Monday. Most roads are drivable only by the brave or the reckless. It’s a mess out there, folks. And winter hasn’t yet begun.
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These questions are fundamental. Without honest and accurate answers, any efforts by leaders to proceed with policy or personnel decisions would be half-baked.
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Residents of neighborhoods downstream from Piedmont Triad International Airport came armed with questions to a meeting Tuesday evening about testing their wells for signs of contamination by two synthetic compounds.
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The community meeting was a chance for family members, their attorney, and clergy to ask the Greensboro City Council for action in Smith’s death, which was ruled a homicide last week by the N.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
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At approximately 12:40 pm an individual identified as Steve Brantley Spence, BM/29, of Norfolk, Virginia entered Smith High School located at 2407 S. Holden Rd. The subject entered the cafeteria and was immediately questioned by school employees. The school employees called for a school lockdown and the subject left the cafeteria and was confronted by the School Resource officer who observed multiple weapons. The individual turned and ran from the officer but was apprehended after a brief foot pursuit by the School Resource Officer and assisting officers.
Read MoreWith court approval, The City of Greensboro has released police body camera video of events leading to the death of Marcus Smith who was hog-tied by police. The state medical examiner release a report today that classified the manner of Smith’s death as a homicide and cited the causes as “Sudden cardiopulmonary arrest due to prone restraint; n-ethylpentalone, cocaine, and alcohol use; and hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.”
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