Filter  MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Year20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 5101520253050100All Filter

• 2 charged with stealing tips in West Asheville

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 22:04

  From Staff Reports Two people were accused in mid-April of walking into three restaurants in West Asheville and stealing more than $160 in tips, according to law enforcement warrants. Parker Wade Davis, 23, of 35 Cordova St., was charged with ...

• Woman, 47, charged with killing boyfriend denied bond

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 22:03

  From Staff Reports A woman charged with killing her boyfriend in December was denied bond on April 4 and will remain in custody at the Buncombe County Detention Facility, according to District Attorney Todd Williams. Robin Renee Richardson, 4...

• Police investigating shooting at teen party at Event Center

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 22:02

  From Staff Reports  Police say they responded to a fight at the Asheville Ballroom & Event Center on Sweeten Creek Road in Asheville, where one person was shot and taken to the hospital on the afternoon of April 9. Asheville Police ar...

• Sports shorts UNCA freshman standout transferring lll

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 22:00

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville freshman men’s basketball standout Dwayne Sutton informed the Bulldogs’ coaches in early April that he wants to transfer to another school. The team’s head coach, Nick McDevitt, and his assistants said they have a ...

• Panthers 2016 games to watch

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 21:59

  By TANK SPENCER Special to the Daily Planet Tank Spencer is the host of a weekly sports talk show, “The Sports Tank,” on Asheville’s News Radio WWNC (570-AM) that airs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. Spencer also serves as WWNC’s news anchor...

• The Daily Planet’s Opinion: May 2016

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 21:57

  Let's join forces to create a more relient Asheville We heartily endorse Ashevillage’s drive — throughout May — to sign up 828 residents to each take a specific positive environmental action for Asheville’s first Community Resilience Challenge. (...

• Letters to the editor: May 2016

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 21:52

  Voter opts to support 'a more pragmatic Hillary’ Recently I sat next to a man wearing a Bernie campaign button. When I took note, our conversation covered a range of issues. In my walks in the Five Points neighborhood I e...

• The Candid Conservative: Be afraid — very afraid

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 21:48

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.” — Thomas Jefferson   The problem  The largest “leap of faith” flock in Ashev...

• What’s behind the ‘Bathroom Bill?’

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 21:46

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL — Was passing the new “Bathroom Bill” the biggest mistake the current North Carolina General Assembly has made so far? Or was it just one in a series of similar overreaching legislative effor...

• Raleigh Republicans anything but selfless

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 21:45

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet An obscure Republican congressman from Michigan wrote something truly remarkable: “The Christian who enters politics must do so with the aim of achieving political justice.  He does this by subjecting h...

• North Carolina HB2 talk is flush with fallacies

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 21:43

  By JEFF MESSER Special to the Daily Planet Jeff Messer is the host of a daily radio talk show on Asheville’s WPEK (880-AM, The Revolution) that airs from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. This column features posts from his daily blog. • The fo...

• Politifact’s HB2 fact check: mostly false

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 21:40

  By PETE KALINER Special to the Daily Planet Pete Kaliner is the host of a daily radio talk show on Asheville’s WWNC (570-AM) that airs from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. This column features posts from his daily blog. • The following was po...

• Carpenters tribute show channels the ‘voice of an angel’

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 21:37

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com SPINDALE — It was, indeed, “white lace and promises — a kiss for luck and we’re on our way,” as lead singer Lisa Rock expertly and passionately “channeled” the vocals — and the spirit...

• The friendly dead ....

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 21:33

  By SHELLEY WRIGHT Special to the Daily Planet     I lead a charmed life. I’m surrounded by the best family and friends anyone could hope for. But I’m also surrounded by the best spirits anyone could hope for. I’m never truly alone a...

• With ‘last man standing,’ Starship still entertaining

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 21:32

  By DAVE ROWE Special to the Daily Planet An entertaining example of a lineage was exhibited  April 9 at the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville. Starship, an off-shoot of the iconic late-1960s rock group, Jefferson Airplane,  played a ...

• Under the Streetlamp puts the bop in retro pop

  Created: Monday, 09 May 2016 21:26

  ‘Oop-shoop, shang-a-langa, jigga-bop….’ By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   GREENEVILLE, Tenn. — The vocal quartet Under the Streetlamp wooed an adoring crowd with the romantic vocals of the doo-wop era d...

• UNCA given $1.5K grant

  Created: Sunday, 10 April 2016 17:57

  The North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation has awarded UNC Asheville a $1,577,718 grant to elevate the undergraduate research program in chemistry and biology. The Chemistry & Biology Fellows & Scholars Program, announced on campus on April 7 ...

• Advice Goddess: May 2016

  Created: Thursday, 07 April 2016 23:18

  We’ll always have parasite Q:   When I got remarried, I inherited a stepdaughter. At the time, I was happy about this. Though she and my husband had been estranged for many years, I was instrumental in getting them to reconcile. I...

• Toxic turf issue erupts; replacement cost: $2.3M

  Created: Thursday, 07 April 2016 23:16

  From Staff Reports Amid concerns that its turf material could cause cancer, work will start this spring on replacing the artificial turf at a projected cost of $2.3 million at the John B. Lewis Soccer Complex in East Asheville. Health concerns...

• Singer fired by Catholic Charities for being in gay marriage; sparks fly outrage

  Created: Thursday, 07 April 2016 23:14

  From Staff Reports Katrina “Kat” Williams, an Emmy Award-nominated blues singer and ex-prison officer who lives in Asheville, said recently that she was fired March 1 as a volunteer performer for a Catholic Charities fundraiser because she is a lesbi...