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Asheville, North Carolina
Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and the 11th largest city in North Carolina. The City is home to the United States National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), which is the world's largest active archive of weather data. The U.S. Census Bureau determined that Asheville's population in 2010 was 83,393. Asheville is a part of the four-county Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population of which was estimated by the Census Bureau in 2010 to be 424,858.
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WUNC
April 12, 2018
Asheville city police face potential budget cuts a month after body camera footage of an officer beating a black pedestrian was leaked to the Asheville ... In other Western North Carolina news, former Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene and her son were indicted by a federal grand jury. Greene facesÃâà...
WLOS
April 12, 2018
Controlled burns send smoke into Asheville area. by WLOS. Smoke from several prescribed burns in Western North Carolina descended on Asheville late Thursday afternoon. (Photo credit: MGN). AA. ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) —. Smoke from several prescribed burns in Western North Carolina descended on Asheville lateÃâà...
WLOS
April 10, 2018
6 photos. AA. ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) —. Several Asheville eateries will get some airtime on the Cooking Channel. app-facebook. HomeGrown. last Wednesday. Some of you know..some of you don't but last year we were asked to be on the tv show Cheap Eats...we have been patiently waiting and finallyÃâà...
Asheville Citizen-Times
April 10, 2018
ASHEVILLE — Reynolds Fire Department Chief Richard Sales is being remembered this week as a fire service leader, a dedicated Buncombe ... and later graduated in 1986 from North Carolina State University with a horticulture degree, a similar path to his father, who is a 1959 N.C. State graduate.
WBTV
April 9, 2018
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (Abbie Bennett | The News and Observer) - Rubies are already rarer than diamonds. But star rubies are something incredibly special. A collection of four "extraordinary" rare star rubies discovered outside of Asheville, North Carolina, nearly 30 years ago — which could be worth more thanÃâà...
Asheville Citizen-Times
April 5, 2018
ASHEVILLE — Architectural Digest has named Asheville School the "most beautiful private high school" in North Carolina, in the magazine's roundup of schools from all 50 states. The article "confirmed what graduates of Asheville School have long known: that the campus' 300 pastoral acres, Tudor-styleÃâà...
KIIITV.com
April 3, 2018
ASHEVILLE — Body camera footage of a police beating of a black man shows different perspectives of the brutal encounter that went viral after a leaked video was published a month ago. Several of the videos clarify aspects of the August encounter that led to criminal charges against then-officer ChrisÃâà...
Mountain Xpress
April 3, 2018
In 1899, professor J.D. Eggleston Jr., the superintendent of the city schools of Asheville, wrote a brief history of the community's library. The article first ran in the April edition of the North Carolina Journal of Education. That same month, The Asheville Daily Citizen republished the piece in its April 22 issue.
KTLA
April 3, 2018
The city of Asheville, North Carolina, released “disturbing, difficult to watch” videos from nine body-worn cameras related to the beating and tasing of a man who was suspected of jaywalking, the city said. One video from an officer on the scene shows Asheville police officer Christopher Hickman wrap hisÃâà...
The State
April 3, 2018
A white North Carolina officer is shown putting a black pedestrian in a chokehold in video released Monday that offers more footage of a police beating that has sparked outrage over use of force. City officials in Asheville, North Carolina, released nine body camera videos of the August 2017 encounterÃâà...
Asheville Citizen-Times
April 2, 2018
ASHEVILLE — As the world's largest aircraft engine took to the skies last month in California, components that made it possible traced back to Western North Carolina. The GE9X, crafted by Evendale, Ohio-based GE Aviation, lifted off last month in Victorville, California, and flew for more than four hours.
Asheville Citizen-Times
March 31, 2018
ASHEVILLE - A downtown monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the Dixie Highway, at the foot of the Vance Monument, has been literally de-faced. Lee's visage, imprinted on a bronze plague attached to a large piece of granite, has been scratched through as has much of the text beneath itÃâà...
Asheville Citizen-Times
March 25, 2018
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality will hold public meetings on the just-released Draft State Mitigation Plan. The plan outlines proposals for investing the first phase of North Carolina's $92 million share of a national settlement with Volkswagen in projects aimed at reducing pollution impacts fromÃâà...
Asheville Citizen-Times
March 16, 2018
ASHEVILLE — Even during a year in which its number of arrests is down, Buncombe County topped the state's list for the most "intoxicated and disruptive" charges. Buncombe in 2017 had more intoxicated and disruptive charges than any other municipality in North Carolina, according to an analysis by theÃâà...
WLOS
March 16, 2018
North Carolina Drug Take Back Day scheduled for March 22 in Asheville ... Organizations and local law enforcement agencies across North Carolina are working together to encourage the public to safely dispose of unused, unwanted ... In 2015, prescribers wrote prescriptions for 705 million opioid pills in North Carolina.
WLOS
March 15, 2018
... Friday Night Rivals Ãâ÷ Game Changer Ãâ÷ Thursday Night Lights Ãâ÷ Scoreboard Ãâ÷ Football Frenzy Ãâ÷ Beyond the Scoreboard. Community. Spotlight Carolina Ãâ÷ North Carolina Educational Lottery Ãâ÷ Community Calendar Ãâ÷ Ask the Vet Ãâ÷ Road Trippin' Ãâ÷ Pump Patrol Ãâ÷ Content for a Cause Ãâ÷ Deadline Deals Ãâ÷ LiveWell Expo Ãâ÷ Asheville IdolÃâà...
Mountain Xpress (blog)
March 15, 2018
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (March 14, 2018) On Saturday, April 21, high school students from across Western North Carolina are invited to participate in Asheville School's “Shakespeare and Friends Day,” which will feature workshops led by NC Stage and the Montford Park Players. The programming will take placeÃâà...
WLOS
March 14, 2018
The Fraternal Order of Police lodge in Asheville has been vandalized, with "Black Lives Matter" spray-painted on the exterior. (Photo credit: WLOS Staff). A still image from security cameras of the person suspected of vandalizing Asheville's Fraternal Order of Ãâ÷ 54257259605--F6CB44D7-CE1D-4253-A540-318259F6AC77.
Asheville Citizen-Times
March 13, 2018
ASHEVILLE – Contrary to the way many mountain residents remember it, weather forecasters did give at least a hint of what was to come in March 1993. "All the ingredients are in place for a heavy snowfall," Ron Jones, chief of the weather bureau at Asheville Regional Airport, told a Citizen Times reporterÃâà...
News & Observer
March 13, 2018
... is now investigating a North Carolina police officer who was captured on body-camera video beating a pedestrian he accused of jaywalking, and people he arrested will have their charges dismissed. Johnnie Jermaine Rush was walking home from his job washing dishes at a Cracker Barrel in AshevilleÃâà...
New York Times
March 7, 2018
Federal authorities are investigating body camera footage from August that shows two white police officers Tasering and beating a black man whom they accused of jaywalking in Asheville, N.C.. The footage, obtained by The Citizen Times, has created an uproar in town. One of the officers has resigned,Ãâà...
CBS News
March 5, 2018
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Police in a North Carolina city say they want to know who turned over video of a white officer beating a black man to a newspaper, along with a memo about the case. Asheville police Chief Tammy Hooper told the Asheville Citizen-Times that the release of the memo and the video wasÃâà...
Asheville Citizen-Times
February 28, 2018
ASHEVILLE - Police in January launched a criminal investigation into whether an officer used excessive force in the arrest of a man suspected of jaywalking and trespassing after he walked across the parking lot of a business already closed for the day. Police body camera video obtained by the CitizenÃâà...
GQ Magazine
February 26, 2018
If you drive just outside of Asheville, the Blue Ridge Parkway is views all along. Up near Craggy Gardens, you can see that layering of the ridgelines and mountain peaks. Bent Creek Experimental Forest and the adjoining North Carolina Arboretum occupy almost 6,000 acres of southern Appalachian coveÃâà...
News & Observer
February 16, 2018
A North Carolina police department's Valentine's Day rendition of a popular meme stepped too far, the department said in a public apology. The Asheville Police Department tweeted Thursday to say posts made on its social media pages on Wednesday “inappropriately called attention to the issues ofÃâà...
WLOS
December 31, 1999
Twenty-five-year-old Adrian Michael Watts is charged with first-degree arson in the fire. Photo: VINELink.com. DaHD9P_U8AA5W2C.jpg Ãâ÷ 286217474_p_136991554252563_200_fs.jpg Ãâ÷ 286217474_p_84327071690327_200_fs.jpg Ãâ÷ 286217474_p_135019920243035_200_fs.jpgÃâà...
Democracy Now!
December 31, 1999
In Asheville, North Carolina, a police officer has resigned, and the city's police chief has offered to step down, amid mounting outrage over the release of body camera video showing a white police officer beating and tasering an African-American man who was stopped for jaywalking. The video, from AugustÃâà...
News & Observer
December 31, 1999
Asheville's police chief said she will resign if people want her to, in the aftermath of a leaked body-camera video showing one of her former police officers beating a man who was accused of jaywalking. “I am happy to resign if that will solve the problem,” Chief Tammy Hooper said as hundreds of peopleÃâà...
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