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Police are still conducting interviews with witnesses and people of interest in connection with a homicide that happened early this morning in Winston-Salem, Assistant Police Chief Connie Southern said.

Bail was set at $2 million for a Greensboro man accused of sexually assaulting a child.

The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI are investigating a report of a bank robbery that happened in Summerfield Tuesday.

Davidson County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Thomasville man in connection with sexual assaults on a child.

An Asheboro woman pleaded guilty to charges that she ran a shell advertising company and cheated people out of money by selling them fake advertisements on restaurant menus.

Shirlye Cornelia Grandy, a former accounting director of the N.C. A&T University Foundation, was indicted last week on charges of embezzling more than $400,000.

The Guilford County Board of Education plans to make a third attempt to pick a new District 1 representative next week.

The SBI is investigating the death of Charmaine Boyden, who lived in the Reidsville area. Boyden was booked into the jail last week on a probation violation, Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Kevin Suthard said.

According to a news release from Greensboro police, a man said he was dropping off someone at an apartment complex at 3800 Overland Heights shortly before 4 p.m. when two men brandishing handguns walked in front of his car. 

The UNC Board of Governors appointed new members last week to the boards of trustees at the city’s two public universities. New trustees will serve four-year terms starting July 1.