ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina city has become the first in the state to declare a “climate emergency” and has now set goals on warming greenhouse gases and renewable energy. Asheville City Council unanimously voted for the declaration ...

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A costly three-year legal battle over a proposed hotel in downtown Asheville is set for a hearing before the North Carolina Supreme Court. The Citizen-Times reports arguments will be heard Monday in Raleigh in the case over the city’s denial ...

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ASHEVILLE (AP) Three former North Carolina county managers have been indicted after federal prosecutors say they took business kickbacks for years in exchange for $15 million in government contracts. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports the indictments name former Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene, ...

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ASHEVILLE (AP) A North Carolina city has reached a $650,000 settlement with a black pedestrian whose beating by a white police officer was captured on body camera video. A settlement filed Aug. 3 in Buncombe County shows the city of Asheville ...

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When the North Carolina Supreme Court comes to town for a special session, you do what needs to be done to make sure the justices are comfortable. In Buncombe County, that meant expanding the bench inside the 90-year-old courthouse in Asheville ahead of the seven justices’ arrival on May 16. The bench in question has three seats for the judge, clerk and a testifying witness.

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RALEIGH (AP) Election districts in western North Carolina’s largest municipality may be redrawn because city leaders failed to do so under legislation moving through a General Assembly chamber. The Senate elections committee voted June 21 to end Asheville’s current practice of ...

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Barbara Ann Davis of Asheville was honored posthumously March 16 as the 2018 Dispute Resolution Section of the NC Bar Association’s Peace Award winner. Davis’s colleague Sarah Corley accepted the award on her behalf at the section’s annual meeting and ...

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ASHEVILLE (AP) A North Carolina judge has ruled all video in the case of a white police officer accused of using excessive force against a black man accused of jaywalking should be released. Local news outlets report Buncombe County Superior ...

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In what is being called the largest jury verdict for wrongful termination in state history, an Asheville-area therapist has been awarded $3.6 million after she was allegedly fired for reporting patient neglect at a mental health community. The case later ...

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Some fake parking tickets handed out in Asheville last week included a rickrolling QR code. WLOS-TV reported the fake tickets included a code that could be scanned with smartphones and pull up a music video for ...

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