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• 2 Warren Wilson College students arrested at Duke Energy protest

  Created: Tuesday, 27 November 2007 19:01

  CHARLOTTE ó Two Warren Wilson College students were arrested for trespassing Nov. 15 after they allegedly blockaded the entrance to Duke Energyís headquarters in downtown Charlotte while dressed as polar bears. Nina Otter, 21, and Meagan Goodman,...

• Police Blotter: Nov. 28, 2007

  Created: Tuesday, 27 November 2007 19:00

  Celerino Ponce 2 brothers killed in shooting at West Asheville pool hall Police are searching for a man they say fatally shot two brothers at a West Asheville pool hall last Monday. Jose Gallegos-Alvarez,...

• Letter: ADP publisher commended for letter to new AC-T chief

  Created: Tuesday, 27 November 2007 18:54

  Kudos to Publisher and Editor John North for skewering the Asheville Citizen-Times in your ìletterî to Randy Hammer. You hit the nail on the head, to bend a couple metaphors. I worked for that ìclone of USA TODAYî one season, and it was a rev...

• Unofficial Asheville flag selected from 6 finalists

  Created: Tuesday, 27 November 2007 18:53

  A design by Jack Moon of Fairview won a contest to pick an unofficial Asheville flag. His entry, featuring a view of the cityís skyline and mountains, garnered the most votes in the contest sponsored by Asheville Pizza & Brewing and WWNC-AM/57...

• In thriller, ASU nips JMU 28-27 to advance to national quarterfinals

  Created: Tuesday, 27 November 2007 18:50

  Pierre Banks celebrates after clinching ASUís victory with a fumble recovery with 22 seconds remaining against JMU last Saturday in Boone.† Photo courtesy of DEREK DESHEA/The Appalachian BOONE ó Armanti Edward...

• ETSU snaps UNCAís five-game winning streak

  Created: Tuesday, 27 November 2007 18:48

  East Tennessee State scored two baskets in the final 6.5 seconds to rally past previously undefeated UNC Asheville, 89-87 in overtime in menís basketball at the Justice Center last Saturday night. The Bulldogs (5-1) led 87-85 on a Sean Smith three...

• Stephen Kingís ëThe Mistí proves predictable, clichÈ

  Created: Tuesday, 27 November 2007 18:48

  Roger Ebert By Roger Ebert Combine (1) a mysterious threat that attacks a town and (2) a group of townspeople who take refuge together, and you have a formula apparently able to generate any number of horror ...

• Advice Goddess: Heís a real Prints Charming

  Created: Tuesday, 27 November 2007 18:45

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon Iím a 20-something guy with a hobby of taking pictures of myself with female friends. Nobody objected in high school, and collecting memories of girls who were kind to me brought ...

• Views mixed on impact of ëillegalsí on economy

  Created: Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:52

  By JIM GENARO If attendees at a forum on Nov. 15 about the economic impact of illegal immigrants expected any clear answers to the question of whether illegal immigrants are good or bad for the economy, they went home disappointed. What they...

• Puppets dazzle

  Created: Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:50

  A Green Man, moon, and other puppets march down Patton Avenue last Saturday afternoon in the 61st annual Asheville Holiday Parade. Thousands of people lined Patton and Biltmore avenues to watch the parade, which was sponsored by the Asheville Mer...

• Kenya, Zimbabwe face divergent situations, despite many similarities, lecturer tells forum

  Created: Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:49

  Dr. Nyaga Mwaniki By JIM GENARO Though Nigeria and Zimbabwe share a great deal of common heritage and similar histories, the two East African countries have taken widely divergent paths that have led to great ec...

• Freeborn requests 2nd recount after 1st confirms election results

  Created: Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:46

  From Staff Reports Election officials will recount votes in a close City Council election by hand after Councilman Bryan Freeborn requested a second recount. Freeborn lost the Nov. 6 election by a narrow margin to newcomer Bill Russell. Afte...

• Trying to get weapons off streets, council OKs gun buy-back program

  Created: Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:44

  Asheville City Council voted 5-1 on Nov. 13 to implement a gun buy-back program in an effort to reduce the number of weapons on the streets. The program will spend $25,000 to buy guns from residents at four community centers Dec. 7-14. One officer...

• Mumpower cites frustration, resigns from finance, public safety panels

  Created: Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:44

  Asheville City Councilman Carl Mumpower resigned from two city committees at councilís Nov. 13 meeting. Mumpower quit the Public Safety Committee, which he chaired, after council approved a gun-buyback program without first sending it to the PSC f...

• Letters to the Editor: Nov. 21, 2007

  Created: Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:42

  City accused of making abortion an election issue I have discovered the holy grail of all political hot potatoes, a genuine case of abortion zoning, even proterrorist abortion zoning, in Buncombe County. I always knew and warned that zoning...

• Column on ëDonít worry, be happyí attitude triggers further comment

  Created: Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:40

  †Maher Baba: Avatar? Thanks so much ó happy, happy happy, happy, happy, happy .... Thanks so much (to Daily Planet Publisher John North) for keeping the spirit of One people, One planet, One future ... and publ...

• WCU fires football coach, staff

  Created: Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:37

  Ex-WCU coach Kent Briggs CULLOWHEE ó Asheville native Kent Briggs was fired as football coach at Western Carolina University on Nov. 12, less than two days after suffering a 79-35 loss to archrival Appalachian State U...

• Furman rolls over WCU 52-21 in Briggsí finale

  Created: Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:34

  CULLOWHEE ó Furman University stomped Western Carolina 52-21 to end Catamounts coach Kent Briggsí six-year tenure in his teamís season finale in front of a generally subdued crowd of 5,175 fans at Whitmire Stadium last Saturday afternoon. The ma...

• ëBeowulfí should be viewed as an over-the-top comedy

  Created: Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:28

  Roger Ebert In the name of the mighty Odin, what this movie needs is an audience that knows how to laugh. Laugh, I tell you, laugh! Has the spirit of irony been lost in the land? By all the gods, if it were not fo...

• Advice Goddess: Adventures in babysettling

  Created: Wednesday, 21 November 2007 04:25

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon Iím 25, and was into the guy I was dating ó until he told me he had a young daughter. Iíve tried to be accepting, and even bought her presents to show Iím comfortable with this...