Blue Ridge Parkway News

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Editor's note: This is the first in a year-long series the Citizen-Times is writing about the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway, ending with the final celebration on Sept.

Robert Clayton Griffin, in his jail book mugshot from 2008. A Mountain Brook man on the run after he was charged with sexual abuse of a child was taken into custody in North Carolina this morning by U.S. Marshals.

According to a recently-released National Park Service study, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is not only the nation's most visited national park, it also tops the 388 national park units in visitor spending.

Move over digital maps and interactive displays - make room for that green roof, recycled glass countertop, low-flow toilet, and passive heating system.

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The Blue Ridge Parkway will launch its 75th anniversary this month with a series of events in Cherokee, N.C., near the parkway's southern terminus.

Three Virginia law enforcement agencies are joining with several other sponsors to hold a motorcycle ride Saturday, Nov.

My husband rented a cabin for us in Valle Crucis, NC last weekend to see the fall color.A We enjoyed seeing the color and they even got their first snowfall.

Nearly 1,500 acres of land along the Blue Ridge Parkway in McDowell County will be protected from future development.

Investigators say a woman whose body was found on the Blue Ridge Parkway died from blunt force trauma to the head.

They're trying to find out how a bunch of rocks got stacked up very neatly on the Blue Ridge Parkway... It's a case for Sherlock Holmes or the detective of your choosing, but people are talking about the 17 piles of rocks which are neatly stacked just the other side of the Wilkes-Ashe County line inside Ashe.

A funeral is set for tomorrow for the young woman found dead on the Blue Ridge Parkway earlier this week.

Published: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 12:04 a.m. The death of a woman whose body was found along the Blue Ridge Parkway on Monday in Buncombe County is being investigated as a homicide, and detectives are trying to piece together how a 21-year-old pregnant woman from Henderson County ended ...

Billy Carter remembers his daughter as a likable, caring person with a good sense of humor.

Investigators said Tuesday a woman whose body was found along the Blue Ridge Parkway was the victim of a homicide.

Rescue crews help two people after their vehicle slid 80 feet down from the Blue Ridge Parkway at around 11 a.m. Sunday, near U.S. 276, after they pulled off the side of the road to look at the recent snowfall.

Buncombe County Sheriff's detectives and Blue Ridge Parkway rangers are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found early Monday morning along the side of the byway.

The bucolic setting of the Charles George Veterans Affairs Hospital in Oteen, with its rolling hills and old oak trees, might seem an odd place for national security concerns.

Join leader Rich Crites at Cave Spring Middle School at 10:00 a.m the morning of October 24, 2009.