B2 NEWS RECORD, Thursday, May 5, 2005 FROM B1 GREENSBORO Teenager indicted in bomb threats faces other charge HIGH POINT The 16-year-old indicted by a grand jury Monday on charges of making more than 50 false bomb threats in Greensboro, Guilford County and Winston-Salem was in a High Point courtroom Wednesday. Tony Wayne Moore, of 1003 Cranbrook is charged with making a death threat against High Point Mayor Becky Smothers. Police say a threatening message was left on Smothers' answering machine in March. Moore's case was continued after the teenager said he wanted to be represented by a public defender. His next court date in High Point is scheduled for June 1.
Authorities seeking leads in January armed robbery GREENSBORO Police are asking for help in solving a January robbery that remains under investigation. Two men entered Colfax Furniture on McCuiston Court shortly before 9 p.m. Jan. 17. The men, armed with handguns, approached clerks and demanded money from the register.
Police describe the first robber as a black male, about 20 years old, about 6 feet tall and with a dark complexion and slim build. He was wearing a gray sweat shirt and a camouflage ski mask. The second robber was described as a black male with a light complexion, also about 20, 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighing about 200 pounds. Both men wore gloves. Anyone with information is asked to call Greensboro police at 373-2255 or Crime Stoppers at 373-1000.
Man, 53, arrested after death of live-in girlfriend LENOIR A man who had been charged twice before with abusing his live-in girlfriend is now accused of beating her to death. Keith Harold Murphy, 53, was arrested Tuesday, two days after his girlfriend Suzanne Clark died of head injuries at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. Caldwell County emergency personnel were called to the couple's home early Sunday. Clark was unresponsive, said Capt. Jeff Stafford of the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office.
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Dalton said the Senate spent $47.5 million $25 million Sewage Continued from Page B1 $40 million in improvements, costs that would be passed directly to water and sewer customers. The move also could limit growth because, within 20 years, Greensboro could reach a point at which it couldn't hook up more customers and still meet the proposed restrictions. "We don't generate this waste," said Martie Groome, Greensboro's laboratory and industrial waste section supervisor. "People generate this waste so it's a population issue rather than an industry issue." Under state law, wastewater managers would have three years to bring new equipment online that would reduce the output of nitrogen and phosphorous. At high concentrations, the nutrients pollute Jordan Reservoir and cause harmful algal blooms.
A two-year extension would be available, but even so, Greensboro would be hardpressed to get the work done on time, said Don Howard, the city's manager of water reclamation. "You're not talking about a $20 fix," he said. "You're talking about multi-million dollar business deals to get stuff done." And the state's proposal isn't without flaws, Howard and other facility managers say. For starters, much of the data on the lake's water quality was collected in 2001 during a severe drought, far from a normal condition. At a meeting Monday in Graham, dozens of interested parties also argued that research on the Jordan Reservoir is in- FINAL FALL clearance Off Maribeth's SOUTH OF TH A 1805 Pembroke Greensboro, NC 271.4767 more than Easley to help erforming schools comply with the court decision on Leandro school funding.
As for the Medicaid reductions, he said: "I think they are defensible. "I don't think they unfairly impact services." The budget also would alter a lottery bill that passed the House last month even before it becomes law, while banning video poker. The House has declined to go along with a ban in the past. The second of two required votes on the two-year spending plan was expected today. The measure then goes to the House, which would substitute its own spending plan.
The two chambers would then have to mold a final plan to Easley's liking by July 1. Although the budget also reduces the corporate tax rate by a half percentage point and phases out the 8.25 percent individual income tax bracket over two years items Republicans have clamored to change GOP senators complained the budget is too big. It's grown by about $1 billion the past two years. "Fiscal responsibility and spending restraint are nonexistent in this budget," Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger, GUILFORD ALAMANCE Greensboro Burlington CAPE FEAR ORANGE Durham RIVER BASIN Chapel DURHAM HAI CHATHAM Jordan Lat TIM Record complete, that the state has not adequately demonstrated that wastewater facilities are responsible for the problem and that the cost to fix the problem may outweigh the potential benefit. "We want to do the right thing," said Groome, who has tracked the Jordan Reservoir issue for years.
"We just don't want to spend all these millions and have the state come back and say, 'Oops, that's not the But state. officials say that unhealthy levels of algae are consistently present during summer months, and in 2001 the lake experienced an "extreme" blue-green algae bloom, which is highly toxic. Throughout the Cape Fear River Basin, including the Haw River, water quality has slipped during the past five years, which only exacerbates the problems in the reservoir, said Cam Mcnu*tt, a N.C. Division of Water Quality computing consultant who monitors the basin. Some improvements have CELEBRATE MOM Simply with a gift from Cottage Furniture for Casual and Living Accessories Simply Cottage 2417-B Lawndale Dr.
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According to state data, stormwater runoff and agricultural activities contribute 68 percent of the nitrogen and 83 percent of the phosphorous in the area of the Cape Fear that includes Greensboro, Reidsville and Alamance County. Those sources have gone unregulated mostly because they are difficult to track and permit. Though details are vague, the state's proposal would now place them under regulation. That N.C. Division of Water Quality is taking comments on the plan until May 31.
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Higher fees on everything from driver's licenses to seatbelt violations and newborn screenings will hit lower-income residents harder, said Elaine Mejia with the North Carolina Justice Center. The budget debate avoided the cigarette tax, which would rise to 40 cents a pack July 1 if the budget becomes law. Senate Democrats fought over the size of the proposed increase within their caucus. The 278-page budget doesn't explicitly create a state-run Festival Continued from Page B1 Fund-raising proceeds come from booth rentals, raffle-ticket sales and direct donations. WHO GETS THAT MONEY? Nonprofit agencies that serve Jamestown's children can apply until July 5 for grants from Jamestown Day proceeds.
A grant application is available online at the association's Web site at www.jamestownba.org The association raised about $10,000 last year, distributing the money to 13 nonprofits. Some money, for example, paid for scholarships to the Ragsdale YMCA and GTCC. Other proceeds brought members of the Greensboro Symphony Or- numbers game in North Carolina, the only state on the East Coast without a lottery. Language inside the proposal would earmark lottery proceeds to benefit Easley's education initiatives and school construction, but only if a stand-alone lottery passed the House. Sen.
Fred Smith, introduced an amendment that would have removed the lottery language, but a motion to vote on the bill failed 23-27. "We believe the lottery is bad public policy for the state," Smith said during the debate. "It takes those that have the lowest amount of income and gives them false hope." 2 Guilford College Main St. Jamestown GTCC High Rd. 2 Rd.
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