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Greensboro Prepares for North Carolina A&T State University’s 100th Homecoming Celebration. Greensboro is gearing up for an influx of over 200,000 visitors as North Carolina A&T State University marks its centennial Homecoming event this week. To accommodate the massive turnout, collaboration between Guilford County, Greensboro officials, and the university is underway to ensure seamless parking, heightened security, and organized road closures.

More than 110 people will be laid off by the end of the year when a major mattress manufacturer permanently closes its plant in Randolph County. Sealy Mattress Manufacturing Company is closing its 28-year-old plant in Trinity, about 68 miles north of Charlotte near High Point. The company plans to shut the site by Dec. 31. The closure will result in 114 layoffs, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) report filed on Oct. 23. Federal law requires such notices for

DANBURY — North Stokes led by two points with five minutes to play. Then South Davidson’s Myles Scercy took a punt 67 yards for a touchdown, and the Vikings ran out of time on the Wildcats’ 18-yard line in a 28-22 loss in a Greater Triad 1A/2A Conference game Oct. 23. North Stokes (0-9 overall, 0-5 conference) outgained South Davidson (6-3, 3-2) 338 yards to 278 and held the ball for 25 minutes, 14 seconds. It still couldn’t hold on. “We were in control, up 22-20, with the ball at our own 47 and

PIEDMONT TRIAD, N.C. (WGHP) – Members of the North Carolina State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution were joined by Lt. Gov. Rachel Hunt as the group unveiled several historical markers in the Piedmont Triad on Saturday and Sunday. Daughters of the American Revolution President General Ginnie...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Guilford County EMS has “several trucks” at the scene of a crash involving a school bus on US 220 on Monday morning. The crash took place in the area of US 220 North and Owls Roost Road. The crash involved a school bus. Footage from the scene shows the school bus […]

North Carolina’s first Buc-ee’s is still more than a year from opening, but the highway project built to handle its crowds is already reshaping one of the state’s busiest interstate corridors. A roughly $50 million overhaul at Exit 152 in Mebane is widening Trollingwood-Hawfields Road and rebuilding...

Children at the Elon Community Church United Church of Christ help shovel dirt at the Oct. 25 groundbreaking for a new playground. A new playground is coming to the United Church of Christ Elon Community Church, and a groundbreaking Oct. 25 was a step toward its expected opening this winter. The project will replace the old playground and add umbrellas for shade.

Officials say Piedmont Memorial Park is not in compliance with state cemetery law; visits remain permitted.

A man was injured in a shooting Saturday night at Alamance Crossing in Burlington, police said. Officers were called to the 900 block of Boston Drive around 7:28 p.m. after reports of a shooting, according to the Burlington Police Department. When they arrived, they found an injured adult man. He was taken to a local hospital in stable condition.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — North Carolina Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate Roy Cooper made a stop at Barber Park in Greensboro during his Make Stuff Cost Less campaign tour on Saturday morning.   About 50 people were in attendance, including many students from UNC Greensboro and North Carolina A&T State University. Guilford County Sheriff […]