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• Drug panel launches rewards program aimed at high-level dealers

  Created: Friday, 09 December 2005 08:35

  Police Chief Bill Hogan unveils one of the new posters to be used in the drug commission's reward program while Vice Mayor Carl Mumpower speaks.Officials of the Asheville-Buncombe Drug Commission announced last Friday that it will offer rewards for the ...

• Daily Planet's Opinion: Public discourse cannot be allowed to crumble

  Created: Friday, 09 December 2005 08:27

  On the morning of Nov. 28, a basketball-sized chunk of marble crumbled and fell off the U.S. Supreme Court building, tumbling onto the steps below.The incident is appropriate, considering the current level of public discourse in this country, which is lik...

• John North: 'Good Night' film shows TV 'news' at its best

  Created: Friday, 09 December 2005 08:24

  John NorthEditor & PublisherAmong my colleagues in the news business, our television brethren and their newscasts generally are regarded as lightweights, inasmuch as they and their medium so often pander to mindless escapism and sensationalism (?®If ...

• Letters to the Editor: Latinos still grapple with dehumanization

  Created: Friday, 09 December 2005 08:17

  Our society evidently has its own built-in machinery to degrade itself ?? ?®getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.?∆ But it entirely depends on our cooperation.The process of dehumanization is a complicated one, but now we have some ingredients...

• Matt Mittan: Is UNCA 'too white?" Definition of 'diversity' raises questions

  Created: Friday, 09 December 2005 08:08

  Matt MittanHow do you define diversity? Let me restate that question... How do you measure diversity?Some at UNC Asheville are currently feeling troubled over what they see as a lack of diversity at the school. That??s why they??ve created ?®The New Di...

• Mark West: Thanksgiving: It's really about family...isn't it?

  Created: Friday, 09 December 2005 06:41

  Mark WestThanksgiving is my favorite holiday, more or less by default. Christmas has become a garish nightmare of consumerism, with occasional nods of the head towards religion, in its most cartoonish and mawkish guises, and any sensible person run...

• Seamus McNerney: Innocence, bliss found in Charlie Brown music

  Created: Friday, 09 December 2005 06:33

  Seamus McNerneyOne of my favorite holiday discs is Vince Guaraldi??s ?®A Charlie Brown Christmas.?∆ It is remarkable because of its multidimensionality. Smooth, jazzy, mournful and always dignified. It is what the holiday season should be, but is not. ...

• Marc Mullinax: Conservatives are needed for balance, but can they do everything?

  Created: Thursday, 08 December 2005 07:26

  Marc Mullinax?®What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried??∆ ?? Abraham Lincoln?ÿMARS HILL ?? This column continues a conversation with Asheville about its religious diversity. Let??s look today at cons...

• Janese Johnson: Serving others on Thanksgiving reveals life's simple beauty

  Created: Thursday, 08 December 2005 07:20

  Janese JohnsonThis year on Thanksgiving, we decided to do something different. I went with my 16- and 19-year-old children to volunteer at the homeless shelter. The whole experience was deep and memorable for all three of us. My son loved it, and for my...

• Dungy, Colts should make most of shot at NFL football perfection

  Created: Wednesday, 07 December 2005 09:24

  Brad NormanBOONE ?? Super Bowl champions are celebrated and recognized for achieving greatness, but rarely are they remembered.Sure, fans of the team will remember the game, and the players and coaches will always remember the win, and likely find time to...

• ASU tops Southern Illinois 38-24, moves to semifinals

  Created: Wednesday, 07 December 2005 09:16

  ASU quarterback Richie Williams breaks free in last Saturday's playoff win over Southern IllinoisBOONE ?? Quarterback Richie Williams racked up 403 yards of total offense and accounted for four touchdowns to lead Appalachian State University to a 38-24 vi...

• WCU breaks UNCA 80-64 with record three-pointers

  Created: Wednesday, 07 December 2005 09:06

  CULLOWHEE ?? Western Carolina hit a school-record 14 three-pointers and defeated UNC Asheville 80-64 in men??s basketball at the Ramsey Center last Saturday night. ...

• UNCA women defeat WCU 77-66 in overtime battle

  Created: Wednesday, 07 December 2005 09:05

  CULLOWHEE ?? UNC Asheville stormed back from a 13-point second-half deficit to rally past Western Carolina 77-66 in overtime in women??s basketball at the Ramsey Center last Saturday night. ...

• Lenoir-Rhyne upsets UNCA 81-78 in first home game

  Created: Wednesday, 07 December 2005 09:03

  Josh Rudder scored 22 points to lead Division II Lenoir-Rhyne to an 81-78 upset win over UNC Asheville last Wednesday night in men??s basketball at the Justice Center. ...

• 10 area football players named to All-SoCon team

  Created: Wednesday, 07 December 2005 09:01

  Southern Conference media picked seven Appalachian State University Mountaineers and three Western Carolina University Catamounts for the All-SoCon team. ...

• Mars Hill College's Baxley nets SAC basketball award

  Created: Wednesday, 07 December 2005 08:59

  ROCK HILL, S.C. ?? The South Atlantic Conference named Walt Baxley of Mars Hill College the men??s basketball player of the week on Nov. 21, the first of the 2005-06 season. ...

• Police charge Arden man with laptop theft at UNCA

  Created: Wednesday, 07 December 2005 08:57

  UNC Asheville campus police arrested and charged Monte Christopher Bumbernick, 19, of Arden at 10:30 a.m. last Thursday with the Nov. 21 theft of a laptop computer from the Mills Hall dormitory. ...

• Vandals break 3 windows at UNCA's Rhoades Hall

  Created: Wednesday, 07 December 2005 08:56

  Unidentified vandals broke three exterior windows in 105 Rhoades Hall at UNC Asheville sometime over the weekend. ...

• UNCA student, 21, arrested on resisting police charge

  Created: Wednesday, 07 December 2005 08:54

  Alexander Dane Weekes, 21, a UNC Asheville student from Lawrenceville, Ga., was arrested by UNCA campus police at 5:25 p.m. Nov. 20 on an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court on prior charges of resisting public officers. ...

• Marshals capture fugitive wanted in string of crimes

  Created: Wednesday, 07 December 2005 08:52

  The U.S. Marshal Service??s task force took James Franklin Hairr, 21, of Asheville into custody on Nov. 25. Hairr was wanted by the Asheville Police Department for first-degree kidnapping and numerous other crimes that occurred from Oct. 11 through Nov. 4...