Tuesday Feb 06, 2007
NEWLAND In the Avery County jail, a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments reminds inmates of any sins committed.
ASHEVILLE District Attorney Ron Moore has cleared city police of criminal wrongdoing in a fatal shooting into a car.
Catawba revises land code: County OKs broad changes to development rules involving mobile homes, subdivisions
'Keep on Going' Guy Spear's full life leaves him too busy to lament what he lost in accident
Carolina wakes up to a Minnesota morning: Arctic sting no record, but close enough.
Lobbying intense on death penalty: Perdue calls for a moratorium as the Council of State gets an earful on doctors' role in executions.
Fight leaves one man dead in Bryson City: Suspect first charged with assault with intent to kill; charges could change in light of victim's death
UNC officials find financial irregularities, lack of proper controls at A&T: "Smelling some smoke," the interim chancellor asks the UNC system for help.
Monday Feb 05, 2007
John Edwards: raise taxes for healthcare
ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES: We're reorganizing to meet the demands of a changing news environment
Officials try to manage growing health-care needs, plan for baby boomers
QUIT OR BE TOSSED OUT: 2 Baptist churches leaving N.C. group
St. John's, Park Road vote to exit convention
Charlotte's Woodstock generation is ready to rock and roll again -- just after the BMW is valet parked.
Sunday Feb 04, 2007
Chimney Rock sale raises questions on states plan for site
Charlotte: Practice fires raise air concerns. Fire Department says asbestos taken out before buildings burned
The pain of capital gain on the taxpayer
4 cranes destined for port hit dredge
Camp Lejeune: Base drive still a bummer
A survey of abandoned vessels along the coast could rouse debate about whether the state needs to address the issue. The Eastern Carolina Council of Governments hopes to do just that by taking its findings to government agencies and other groups active...
A $2.5 Billion Shakedown
Houses riddled with crime, blight: A police sergeant owns 10 housing units in Southeast Raleigh near downtown that routinely draw officers on drug, prostitution and assault calls.
Saturday Feb 3, 2007
Hearts With Hands offers emergency aid in tornado-torn Central Florida
Asheville loses water lawsuit
A plan to redraw Pender County's commissioner voting districts has the support of one state lawmaker, but another says she's worried there wasn't enough public input.
Franklin: Bond has been raised to $300,000 for a man charged with drugging and raping a 14-year-old girl on Jan. 6."Based on new information, the district attorney and I felt it was appropriate to require a larger bond," Sheriff Robert Holland said Thursday.
Asheville Global Report: Libby trial reveals Cheney manipulations on Iraq
Swain County: No specific timetable yet for state investigation of election charges
Old Fort officer dies in wreck
WINTON - Two employees for an animal rights group were cleared Friday of charges that they cruelly killed cats and dogs. What they got were littering convictions -- for throwing out the dead animals.
Sanford church speaks out with silent display
Graham County: Support for troops under way
Friday Feb 2, 2007
Franklin: Wal-Mart Supercenter project on hold for now
New Macon County Library, Southwestern Community College nearly complete
Winter storm fizzles, spares much of WNC: 5 inches of snow in some places, none in others
CULLOWHEE ������¯������¿������½ State troopers now say a Western Carolina basketball player, not his girlfriend, was behind the wheel of a car that crashed into the Tuckasegee River last week
Waynesville library offers bilingual story time for kids
Asheville UNC Asheville will host a talk on The Current Science of Climate Change at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6, at UNC Ashevilles Karpen Hall, room 038. Noted environmental expert Leonard Bernstein will present key findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which he served as convening lead author.
Members of the Cherokee County Parks and Recreation at Andrews Steering Committee met Jan. 22 to discuss what should be included in the master park plan for the Salman Property.
No-Stick Plot: Forecast of snow, ice falls short of its billing
The Charlotte area is expected to warm a little today to about 39 degrees, and possibly even be sunny, a day after snow blanketed the region.
Charlotte: Charter school once threatened by unrest and closure makes comeback with firm administrative leadership
Bank of America Corp. and other banks are reissuing debit and credit cards after retailer TJX Cos. Inc. said customer data was stolen by computer hackers, The Associated Press reports.
Homeless in Hillsborough: Editors note: This is the first in a series of three articles looking at the state of homelessness in Hillsborough and possible solutions. Next weeks story will focus on Jeffery Ruffin, a chronically homeless man who has been waiting four years to receive disability checks.
