McDowell County Newswire
Comprehensive Real-Time News Feed for McDowell County, NC.
Results 1 - 20 of 175 in McDowell County, NC
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The Indian mound in Asheville that wasn't
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... paralleled the Little Tennessee and Hiwassee Rivers. For example, official state and local histories of McDowell County, NC say that the county was originally occupied by Cherokee Indians. In the book, "The Indian Tribes of North America," highly ... Comment?
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N.C. Senate approves student prayer rights bill
... are properly exercising their rights. Republican sponsors speaking for the bill pointed to an incident in McDowell County in which a teacher forced a student to remove religious references from a poem. Some Democrats have questioned the need for the ... Comment?
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NC Students Could Be Allowed To Pray In School
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... are properly exercising their rights. Republican sponsors speaking for the bill pointed to an incident in McDowell County in which a teacher forced a student to remove religious references from a poem. Some Democrats have questioned the need for the ... Comment?
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Student prayer rights bill passes NC Senate
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... are properly exercising their rights. Republican sponsors speaking for the bill pointed to an incident in McDowell County in which a teacher forced a student to remove religious references from a poem. Some Democrats have questioned the need for the ... Comment?
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Student Prayer Rights Bill Passes NC Senate
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... are properly exercising their rights. Republican sponsors speaking for the bill pointed to an incident in McDowell County in which a teacher forced a student to remove religious references from a poem. Some Democrats have questioned the need for the ... Comment?
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Student Prayer Rights Bill Passes State Senate
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... are properly exercising their rights. Republican sponsors speaking for the bill pointed to an incident in McDowell County in which a teacher forced a student to remove religious references from a poem. Some Democrats have questioned the need for the ... Comment?
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Take your mom to Lake James State Park
... are welcome. Meet at 2 p.m. Sunday in the West Picnic Shelter at the Paddy's Creek Area at the park in McDowell County. Register by calling the park office at 584-7728. Also on Sunday is a Lake James Cemetery Tour. Join a park ranger to learn about ... Comment?
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Delta will pay a dividend, buy back shares
... in 2008, and moved two years ago to Rehoboth, a gay-friendly Delaware beach town. The students in rural McDowell County start life with almost every disadvantage imaginable: deep poverty, rampant drug abuse and too few teachers. When school started ... Comment?
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Rains shut I-40, N.C. 9 still closed
Heavy rains swamped low-lying parts of the Swannanoa Valley and shut down key roads, including N.C. Highway 9. A mudslide temporarily blocked lanes of Interstate 40 on May 6 just at the Buncombe and McDowell county line. 1 comment
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In rural W.Va., schools rethink their role
... parents got invitations; the others were long gone, in jail or dead. This is the reality facing students in McDowell County, a place perpetually ranked among the worst in the state by almost every measure. Twelve people a month die from drug ... Comment?
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Asheville area socked by flooding, landslides
... its own entity drifting around in the South." The I-40 slide happened about 1 a.m. on Old Fort Mountain in McDowell County, closing all westbound lanes until about 5:40 a.m., when one lane was opened. All lanes were reopened shortly before noon, ... Comment?
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List of roads closed due to flooding
... in place due to landslides: I-40 West at mile marker 68 between Old Fort and Black Mountain at the Buncombe/McDowell county line. A landslide occurred at approximately 1 a.m. The N.C. Department of Transportation reopened one lane of the interstate ... Comment?
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Railroad worker killed in mudslide remembered for his smile, was father of 3
... orfolk Southern worker has been killed after he was trapped in a mudslide while checking track conditions in McDowell County. Comment?
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Railroad worker killed in McDowell mudslide
A Norfolk Southern worker has been killed after he was trapped in a mudslide while checking track conditions on Old Fort Mountain in McDowell County. Comment?
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Severe weather impact roads in WNC
... for real-time information. A I-40 West at mile marker 68 between Old Fort and Black Mountain at the Buncombe/McDowell county line. A landslide occurred at approximately 1 a.m. The N.C. Department of Transportation reopened one lane of the interstate ... Comment?
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MAC 4-A baseball tourney likely off
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Seven solid hours of rain overnight Thursday in McDowell County have likely doomed this year's Mountain Athletic Conference 4-A baseball tournament. Comment?
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One killed in I-40 wreck in McDowell County
One person died Monday morning after a tractor-trailer slammed into a pickup truck on Interstate 40 in McDowell County, according to the state Highway Patrol. Comment?
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White-nose syndrome decimates North Carolina's bats
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... of bats hibernating dropped from nearly 4,000 bats to about 250 bats in only one year. And at a cave in McDowell County, numbers dropped from almost 300 to only a few bats remaining this winter. White-nose syndrome continues to spread, affecting ... Comment?
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One killed in I-40 wreck in McDowell County
McDowell County, according to the state Highway Patrol. The wreck occurred at 4:25 a.m. in the eastbound lanes near the rest area and mile marker 82. The wreck involved a ... Comment?
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Autopsy: Missing Gaston County woman died of drug toxicity
A missing Gaston County woman whose body was found in a car in a rugged McDowell County ravine in December died from combined drug toxicity, an autopsy by the N.C. Medical Examiner Office has determined. Comment?
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