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Search continues for Candler man who went missing in 2023
BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — Buncombe County deputies renewed calls for information about a missing man who hasn't been heard from in a year. In a news release on Friday, July 12, 2024, the sheriff's office says 26-year-old Tyler Ashby was last seen leaving his Candler home exactly one year ago wearing black sweatpants and a shirt.
3 attacked, beaten at Asheville ‘Palestinian Resistance’ event
The Asheville Police Department is ““investigating an assault that occurred” during an Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair seminar on June 29 at the West Asheville Library, the APD noted in a July 1 press release. After allegedly being attacked, violently beaten and dragged outside of the library, accusations...
Alcohol monitoring for some NC parents could save lives. Uncertainty about the law presents a roadblock
For months now, Michael Dean Smith said, he has feared his infant daughter will be hurt or killed in a drunk-driving related accident with the mother of his child behind the wheel. Smith, 34, of Waynesville, shares joint custody of his now 15-month-old daughter with Valery Francis, who has primary...
Son of Holocaust survivor threatened following attack at Asheville library
Over the weekend, self-described “Zionist,” David Moritz, received an anonymous threat in the mail. It comes nearly a month after he and two others were assaulted while attending an event entitled “Strategic Lessons from the Palestinian Resistance.”. On June 29, Moritz attended the event along with Monica...
City’s anarchists? ‘They’re hypocrites!’ FOP leader declares, noting they say they want peace in Gaza, but (allegedly) beat up 2 local Jews, 79-year-old man
In the aftermath of an incident wherein two local Jews and their friend, a male 79-year-old cancer survivor, allegedly were attacked, severely beaten and dragged out of the West Asheville Library by participants in an anti-Israel event on June 29, Asheville FOP President Rondell Lance said of the perpetrators, “They’re hypocrites!”
BCGOP chair found guilty of assault on a female school board member; no punishment meted out by court
The chair of the Buncombe County Republican Party was “found guilty of assaulting a female GOP school board member” during a July 8 trial in Buncombe County District Court, the Asheville Citizen Times reported on July 9. However, Buncombe GOP Chair Doug Brown “will likely face no punishment,...
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