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Cleveland County will remain a Tier 1 county for 2010, according the N.C. Department of Commerce, which designates counties statewide based on the level of economic distress and prosperity.

The Buncombe County Sheriff's Office declined Monday to release information on a motive behind a weekend shooting that left a 35-year-old Woodfin woman dead.

Editor's note: This is the first of a four-part series of articles. A prominent gravestone in Riverside Cemetery reminds us of Thomas Lanier Clingman, one of Asheville's most legendary figures.

City police Wednesday arrested an Asheville man charged with cocaine trafficking.

The following transfers were filed in the Register of Deeds office Nov 9-13: Alexander Lot 31 of The Hills of French Broad, $132,000, Jeri S. and Patrick Davis to Richard A. and Lydia Stewart 63 High Valley Drive, $238,000, Daisy M. and Scott P. Settle-Chesser to Kim Evetts Merck Arden Lot 2 of Baldwin Cove, $207,500, G. Jean Graham to Susan S. Lee ...

The Mediation Center in Asheville will host a forum at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Burton Street Community Center to discuss a recent case in which an Asheville man was sentenced to 44 months in prison for armed robbery, according to Megan Leschak, coordinator for the Buncombe County Gang Violence Prevention Project.

Coming off the bitterly contested issue of incorporation, Swannanoa residents put their differences aside and came together Tuesday to help the community move forward.

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.

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.

The following transfers were filed in the Register of Deeds office Nov. 2-6: Arden * 30 Brook Meadows Lane , $510,000, Jennifer Ray and Robert Dean Clayton Jr.

A prearranged fight escalated into a shooting that left a Buncombe County man critically injured early this morning.

Mooresville men and women have served their country in all wars and conflicts since the Revolutionary War.

Buncombe County Sheriff's deputies on Monday charged a Fletcher woman with attempting to rob another woman with a handgun.

The following transfers were filed in the Register of Deeds office Oct. 21-30: Arden * 311 Carrington Place, $125,000, $125,000, Mary M. Piscitelli to Riley LLC * 100 Ledbetter Road, $360,000, Esther M. Anthony Estate, Paula Jo Anthony and Bruce D. Carter to Andrew Justin Broz Asheville * 111 Coleman Ave.

KELLIE PICKLER WAS ON ELLEN ON FRIDAY... LOOK AT HER HALLOWEEN COSTUME! THERE IS SOMETHING VERY FUNNY.... YET VERY WRONG ABOUT THIS! HERE IS MORE OF KEITH! RYAN NEWMAN HAS A NASTY CRASH AT TALLADEGA YESTERDAY... CHECK IT OUT! Mel Gibson may be a father for the eighth time: His girlfriend, musican Oksana Grigorieva, gave birth to a baby girl, ...

TOPIC STAFF A region anchored by technology giants Google and Apple, along with financial data centers in Charlotte, will be the focus for promotion by five counties, including Caldwell, to attract more data centers, communications firms and high-tech industries.

After weeks of arguments that have pitted neighbor against neighbor, Swannanoa voters will have their say Tuesday on whether their community should be incorporated into a town.

City police charged a Boone man with possession of Ecstasy. Sean Alexander Herberg, 20, of Howard Street, Boone, was charged with simple possession of MDMA or Ecstasy.

Kinston put itself on the world's beer map Saturday, with the grand opening of the Mother Earth brewery.

The Blount-Bridgers House Garden has been chosen by the Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina to receive the 2009 Minnette C. Duffy Landscape Preservation Award.