Weather Impact: Triad schools, emergency management crews share latest on winter weather preparations
GREENSBORO, N.C. — School districts and city leaders across the Triad are gearing up for Friday’s snow and ice, with several briefings scheduled today. Guilford County Schools will give an update at 9:30 a.m., followed by weather briefings from the City of Winston-Salem at 10 a.m. and the City of Greensboro at 1 p.m....
Greensboro families want answers in double homicide case: ‘I’ll never forget him’
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Nov. 30 marked eight years since two families have been left without answers after Derek Brown and Sharease Haley were killed on Woodbriar Avenue in Greensboro. Police responded to a shooting around 11:15 p.m. on Nov. 30, 2017, finding the two fatally shot. Now, those families are asking...
Video: Vehicle crashes into school bus in Greensboro
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Video obtained by FOX8 shows the moments when a vehicle crashed into a stopped school bus in Greensboro. The video taken on Montrose Drive shows an SUV approaching and crashing into the back of a stopped school bus. Further footage shows rear-end damage to both the school bus and the...
K&W in Burlington closes abruptly
K&W Cafeteria announced Monday that it was closing all of its locations – including the one at I-85 Plaza along Ramada Road in Burlington – effective immediately, ending the company’s 88-year run in business. K&W announced on Facebook that, effective immediately, it had closed its 10 remaining...
Greensboro trucking company closing, putting 74 out of work
An Iowa-based trucking company with operations in Greensboro will permanently close after losing the U.S. Postal Service as its primary customer. About 70% of 10 Roads Express’ revenue came from the postal service, the company told Transport Topics on Monday. The company has approximately 2,600 drivers nationwide,...
Snow, wintry mix expected soon in the Triangle. Here’s the latest forecast
Snow and other wintry precipitation is headed for central North Carolina. Areas that will see the biggest impacts from the weather are in the northern Piedmont and northern Coastal Plain . The precipitation will begin overnight Thursday, Dec. 4 and last through Friday, Dec. 5. A winter weather advisory is in place...
‘I do not feel safe in this city anymore’ | Greensboro business owner worried...
GREENSBORO, N.C. — On Battleground Avenue, where dinner crowds mix with nightlife, fear arrived without warning. Police said 33-year-old Robert King Jr. was found shot in a car Tuesday night and died at the scene. Just feet away inside Speakeasy Tavern, owner Lauren Thacker said her staff witnessed too...
Mailing gifts and cards? The USPS deadlines & tricks for the holidays
GREENSBORO, N.C. — To get your presents into the hands of friends and family, they first have to be sorted and ride miles of conveyor belts through the U.S. Postal Service facilities. The USPS can process 88 million packages a day. That's crazy!. But all you really care about...
Alamance County moves to buy iconic downtown Graham building
Alamance County is taking steps to purchase an iconic building in downtown Graham. County commissioners voted Monday to advance plans to buy the Bank of America Building and convert it into offices for the Alamance County Visitors Bureau, which is currently based in Burlington. Assistant County Manager Brian Baker...
Man shot, killed in Greensboro in parking lot of Battleground Avenue, police say
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Greensboro police are investigating a fatal shooting on Tuesday in a parking lot along Battleground Avenue. Greensboro officers, firefighters and Guilford County EMS responded at 9:53 p.m. to the 1700 block of Battleground Avenue and found Robert Lamont King Jr., 33, in a vehicle. He had...
