Greensboro

Preservation efforts for the South Benbow Road Historic District in Greensboro began a decade ago to recognize the 1950s-era African-American architects who lived and worked there. The district includes 450 contributing structures.

The grant, totaling more than $735,000, is being provided by the federal Safe Streets For All program. It aims to improve road safety and reduce traffic-related fatalities. 

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) confirmed it’s using the Greensboro Influx Care Facility — the former American Hebrew Academy — as a training and processing site.

Former president Donald Trump is putting considerable time into North Carolina, which last backed a Democrat for president in 2008. His hope for victory is significantly more complicated if he were to the fast-growing state that gave Trump his smallest margin of victory over Democrat Joe Biden four years ago.

A juvenile in Greensboro has been charged with communicating a threat of mass violence on educational property.

A Greensboro city official recently launched a new podcast entirely in Spanish to reach the area's Hispanic population.

Former President Donald Trump was targeted in what the FBI is calling an assassination attempt on Sunday. The suspect is 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, a longtime Triad resident. Routh has faced various criminal charges, including a 2002 charge of possessing a “weapon of mass destruction.”

The man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a Florida golf course Sunday wrote a book last year urging Iran to kill him. Ryan Wesley Routh was identified as the suspect by three people familiar with the case who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.