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Outling said that when he viewed the body worn camera videos of the event, “I saw what most people saw. The police were certainly trying to help someone that was in a very bad position apparently because he took drugs. I can’t identify what they could have done any better from where I sit.”

The Supreme Court once again will take up unresolved constitutional questions about partisan gerrymandering, agreeing Friday to consider rulings from two lower courts that found congressional maps in North Carolina and Maryland so extreme that they violated the rights of voters.

On Thursday, Jan. 10, the Guilford County Board of Education and the Guilford County Board of Commissioners will get together and talk about the results of a $1-million study on school needs – and that conversation will also be the unofficial kick off of a discussion on how much the schools should ask for in a bond referendum request for 2020.

According to audited stats for fiscal 2017-2018, the average daily inmate population in the county’s two jails was 906, exactly one inmate higher than it was in fiscal 2008-2009. At that time, pro new jail forces led by former Guilford County Sheriff BJ Barnes pushed for a giant new jail, while others – in a very heated debate at the time – argued that the county didn’t need a new jail at all or could suffice with a much smaller jail than the proposed 1,000-plus jail. Guilford County Commissioners Skip Alston and Carolyn Coleman both argued that a jail of that magnitude was not needed and it turns out they were exactly right.

After a record-breaking year of homicides in 2017, Greensboro police saw a 20 percent reduction in killings during 2018 (Editor’s note: It is actually a 23 percent decline to-date).

Lorenzo “Logie” Meachum, who shared his love of music and storytelling with the community for decades, died early Saturday after a battle with cancer.