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Alexander, North Carolina is located in Buncombe County. Zip codes in Alexander, NC include 28701. The median home price in Alexander is $225,000 which is roughly $110/per square foot.

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6 hrs ago | HeraldSun.com

DA graduates urged, - be a global change agent'

Recalling the reaction of a 10-year-old Kenyan boy to seeing the moon through a telescope, Betsy Bennett, former director of the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, said it's a powerful experience to help someone see something new.

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20 hrs ago | Asheville Citizen-Times

Slaying suspect still at large

State and local authorities on Thursday continued their second day of hunting a man accused of killing his wife.

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Wed May 22, 2013

The Mountaineer Publishing Company

Howard Liner

William Howard Liner, 81, of 199 Liner Cove Road, passed away Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at Silver Bluff Village Nursing Home following a brief illness.

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Asheville Citizen-Times

Search on for man connected to Alexander death

Buncombe sheriff's officers this afternoon issued a warrant for first-degree murder in connection with a death in the Alexander community.

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WYFF-TV Greenville

Deputies: Homicide suspect on run considered armed, dangerous

Deputies are looking for help from the public to find the suspect in a homicide who they consider to be armed and dangerous.

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Tue May 14, 2013

News Observer

Civil protections curtailed for state workers under McCrory bill

Pat McCrory. House lawmakers voted 110-5 to remake the grievance procedures for about 90,000 state workers, moving the key link in the appeal process from the hands of an independent administrative law judge to hearing officers named by political appointees of the governor.

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Mon May 13, 2013

Asheville Citizen-Times

Senate bill would defund AdvantageWest

AdvantageWest, along with the state's three other rural economic development partnerships, could lose public funding and turn over the task of recruiting new businesses for the region to the N.C. Department of Commerce.

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Thu May 09, 2013

News Observer

GOP wants to revamp way judges are elected

Unanimously approved a constitutional amendment repealing the literacy test for voting.

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Tue May 07, 2013

Asheville Citizen-Times

Asheville area man charged in break-ins

Eric Lee Worley, 31, of Walt Drive, was charged Monday with three counts of breaking and entering and larceny and one count of felony larceny, according to warrants at the Buncombe County magistrate's office.

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