HENDERSONVILLE -- District Attorney Jeff Hunt said he finds no reason to pursue a criminal investigation against embattled Henderson County Sheriff Rick Davis in spite of "rumors, speculation and suspicions" about his conduct.
ASHEVILLE -- Ignite Asheville, a new series of lightning-fast talks, sparked new ideas to the stage and charged conversations in a sold-out audience at the Grey Eagle.
ASHEVILLE -- N.C. Rep. Tim Moffitt ruled out the idea of calling for a referendum on whether Asheville should be stripped of control over its water system in favor a regional authority.
ASHEVILLE -- While the Georgia teenager shot during a traffic stop Sunday continues to recover from multiple gunshots, the details of the case may never be made public.
ASHEVILLE -- A mixture of protesters, postal workers and politicians gathered at Pack Square Park with a clear message: Save post offices and postal jobs.
HENDERSONVILLE -- District Attorney Jeff Hunt said he has found no reason to pursue criminal charges against embattled Henderson County Sheriff Rick Davis.
CANTON -- A 17-year-old boy shot by a Buncombe County sheriff's deputy following a high-speed chase early was speech and hearing impaired and had struggled to communicate with officers in a stop minutes earlier, Sheriff Van Duncan said.
ASHEVILLE -- A Leicester woman was charged with felony death by motor vehicle and driving while impaired after city police determined she exceeded 100 mph before a fatal wreck.
ASHEVILLE -- A regional agency could correct an imbalance in which noncity residents have no say in governing the city-owned water system that serves them, Rep. Tim Moffitt said at a forum Monday.
ASHEVILLE -- Authorities are reviewing surveillance video and talking to students after vandals hit four Buncombe County high schools over the weekend.
ASHEVILLE -- A Leicester woman was charged Monday with felony death by motor vehicle and driving while impaired after city police determined she exceeded 100 mph before a fatal wreck last month.
Western Carolina scored 10 runs through the first four innings and cruised to a 13-3 win over Winthrop in a nonconference baseball game on Tuesday. The Catamounts improved to 4-0. Aaron Attaway went 4-for-6 with three RBIs to lead WCU offensively.
SWANNANOA -- At this late stage of the season, Patjo Twagirayezu's name rolls right off the tongue of veteran Asheville Christian Academy public-address announcer Dwayne Long.
Jordan Theodore scored a career-high 29 points to lead Seton Hall to the signature win it needed for its NCAA tournament resume, a 73-55 victory over No. 9 Georgetown on Tuesday night.
MARANA, Ariz. -- Tiger Woods must be mellowing with age.There was a time when a comment from his opponent in the Match Play Championship, even tongue-in-cheek, would be an extra bit of motivation that Woods didn't need.
In keeping with the Asheville tradition of championship games going down to the buzzer, top seed Marshall beat No. 3 Davidson 66-64 in overtime on guard Skip Henderson's tip in as time expired.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla -- All the tickets are sold and little remains except the wait for Florida State's game against fifth-ranked Duke on Thursday in what has shaped up as one of the most important games in Florida State basketball history.
CATAWBA -- Former race car driver Jeremy Mayfield says the new criminal charges against him are "baseless" and suggests he's the target of a conspiracy involving NASCAR and law enforcement officials.
DAYTONA BEACH -- If Michael Waltrip were to count up all the concussions he has sustained over a NASCAR career that stretches back nearly 30 years, he'd certainly hit 10 -- and probably keep going.
TOKYO -- Natalie Nakase knows there's more to her job than winning games. The American is the first female coach in Japan's professional men's basketball league.
Marshall won its second straight title with a 70-65 win over fifth-seed Virginia Military in front of 6,521 fans, but the Keydets stole the show as much of the three-day crowd of 23,963 inherited the underdogs as their own.
TEMPE, Ariz. -- C.J. Wilson parked his car and laughed while signing autographs for faceless fans who handed bats, balls and cards to the pitcher from the other side of a brick wall.
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Looking around Atlanta's spring training clubhouse, Jason Heyward sees most of the same faces that were there last September, when the Braves blew a seemingly comfortable lead in the playoff race.
Elena Delle Donne's leaner from the wing with 2 seconds left lifted No. 10 Delaware to a thrilling 40-39 victory over Drexel on Sunday and clinched the Colonial Athletic Association regular season title.
The U.S. Supreme Court will wind up its term in June with a decision that could shake the federal system to its roots but probably will not and should not. The issue is the Affordable Care Act, derided by its critics as Obamacare.
It's all the rage in state legislatures and even in Congress. More than a dozen states are debating proposals to require jobless Americans who receive unemployment benefits to submit to mandatory drug testing.
A story for Black History Month. Bryan Stevenson is director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery, Ala.-based organization he founded in 1989 to provide legal representation for the indigent and incarcerated.
One of the "Occupy Asheville volunteers" walked into one of the nicest men's stores in Asheville to announce "I am hear representing (OA), and I would like to know what issue you would like us to advocate for.
Has anyone at the AC-T looked into the Obama health care bill? Dealing with the increases supposedly coming -- $93 in 2012, $104 in 2013 and $200+ in 2014 -- for the costs for seniors on Medicare? These are approximate figures.
In the Feb. 17 edition, there were two interesting headlines. The first on page one reads "Feds: Curb dashboard technology," and the second on page 7 reads "FTC: Give parents info for kids' apps." The word "Feds" is not a good word.
In the Feb. 13 Asheville Citizen-Times there was a story titled, "For more than 30 years, a blended family." The story described some of the challenges of living together without being legally married. We would like to note a misunderstanding.
I was somewhat amused at Sen. Burr's response to why he voted against the STOCK Act. He states, "This bill was more about a broadly disliked Congress trying to improve their approval rating than it was about anything substantive.
I'm dismayed at the lack of understanding of atheism illustrated in the AP article of Feb. 10 "Humanist Army officer wants recognition." AP quotes Harold Katz of the Humanist Society: "Atheism means ... you don't believe in God." True enough. Then: "...
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To everyone in general and the African-American community in particular, these thoughts came to mind. February is the month given to the famed historian, Dr. Carter G.
WASHINGTON -- With Pakistan's civilian government and judiciary showing renewed signs of life, it's time for them to ask the question the country has been avoiding for nine months: How did Osama bin Laden, the world's leading terrorist, hide out in a mili
WASHINGTON -- Can civility be saved? This has become the question du jour among scholars, journalists and others who fret about such things at dozens of programs popping up around the country.
I was surprised to learn North Carolina's legislators want to dismantle or weaken North Carolina's Air Toxics Program, especially since North Carolina has the 10th-highest level of toxic air emission in the country.
The current crisis over the shortage of critical medical drugs should cause us to remember the limits of capitalism. It can be an effective economic system, but left unchecked capitalism can be terribly destructive.
I don't think the drug companies like Eli Lilly, paired together with their unholy alliances in the government and media, could possibly pull off a more chilling but effective stunt to keep the money rolling in for themselves.
I agree with guest commentator Fred Flaxman's suggestions ("Cash-carry Congress'') concerning the election of the president and Congress. However, in his last paragraph big labor unions were omitted from his list of political contributors.
