Asheville News

An Asheville eye doctor said Friday that he is prepared to go to court against the North Carolina Medical Board if it reprimands him for telling a patient she was fat.

Carol Motsinger * CMotsinger@CITIZEN-TIMES.com * updated November 13, 2009 9:38 am ASHEVILLE Asheville's getting a dose of Hollywood pizzazz with this weekend's seventh annual Asheville Film Festival.

A former Asheville firefighter will spend 120 days in jail for shooting at a bicyclist, narrowly missing his head with a bullet that pierced the man's helmet.

Look homeward, piglet. That's what will happen soon when sculptures of a pig and a piglet are reinstalled facing north as part of an Urban Trail station that sits just west of Vance Monument - despite the fact that their flesh-and-blood ancestors almost always moved south through that spot.

Police say an Asheville woman withdrew $2,060 from Carolina First Bank just after depositing checks drawn on a closed account.

"Lorna Blaine Halper: The Space Between" at the Asheville Art Museum opens Dec. 12, with an opening reception from 2-4 p.m. Dec.

From noon-2 p.m. Thursday, meet at City Hall in downtown Asheville to board the bus and tour the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers with RiverLink.

Police arrested a man and a woman on charges they broke into a cabinet and stole video game systems and other electronic equipment from the Walmart in east Asheville.

Police detectives took out warrants on a city man in connection with a shooting earlier this month at Pisgah View Apartments.

The eighteenth annual 'All That Jazz" weekend at The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa will bring legendary jazz artists to Asheville, North Carolina for two days of concerts and jazz themed special events.

My husband and I were in desperate need of a road trip. Didn't care much where or why, we just wanted to hit the open road and get out of St Louis for a while.

North Carolina Senate Democrats have chosen veteran Buncombe County lawmaker Martin Nesbitt as the new majority leader.

A fun and funky character-plus cafe with extraordinarily good biscuits, Tomato Jam is a great place for breakfast or lunch, with take-out meals a specialty.

The late, great Elvis Presley performed in Asheville five times during his long and colorful rock career.

Elvis has left the building, but the tickets are still there. Twenty-five years after the rock legend's death, the Asheville Civic Center is still holding thousands of unused tickets to a local show he never lived to play, Aug.

An Asheville woman was charged with breaking into a car to steal a credit card, according to warrants filed at the Buncombe Count Magistrate's Court.

Hearts With Hands is holding their third annual Harvest of the Heart program from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday.

This year's annual Asheville Film Festival proved to be a little different than years past.

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a venerable institution in our part of the world. This scenic drive runs 469 miles, from Shenandoah National Park to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina .

The day when every Asheville High School student has a laptop computer is getting closer.