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Holiday scents were in the air Friday along Nash Street and Forest Hills Road as the Wilson Evening Optimist and Wilson Breakfast Optimist clubs opened their Christmas tree lots for the season.

Local teachers turned on the light of Bright Ideas Thursday, earning grants from Blue Ridge Electric Membership Cooperative.

UPDATE AT 8:02 a.m.: Storm Team 11 Weather Watcher Ruth Green reported very heavy snow and covered roads in the mountains of Unicoi County, Tennessee.

Three were injured in a collision on N.C. 105 Friday afternoon near the entrance to Shull's Mill Road.

Bettye Newton Goff, 80, of 1317 Carmen Lane, passed away peacefully at home in Gastonia, N.C., on October 28, 2008.

Published: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 6:48 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 6:48 a.m. A forecaster says the snow that surprised western North Carolina came several weeks earlier than ...

District Court Judge Bill Leavell presiding and Charlene Norris prosecuting on behalf of the state.

Lambda Legal has filed suit against this eastern Tennessee city and Police Chief John Lowry on behalf of a man arrested in a September 2007 public sex sting.

Jane Hodges, director of the Watauga County Board of Elections, urges all Watauga County voters to take advantage of early voting.

A 53-year-old local business is giving way to rising business costs, a changing environment and Appalachian State University's expansion.

One of Boone's sweetest festivals is returning for its 28th year. The Southern Appalachian Historical Association's Apple Festival is coming Oct.

Church World Services is a global organization that supports a wide range of projects relating to poverty, and the annual CROP Hunger Walk is its fundraising event that spans more than 2,000 communities ...

Avery County celebrates its Civil War heritage on Saturday September 13, with the dedication of three Civil War trail markers, and invites residents and visitors to take a self-tour of the county's barn quilts ...

Despite spotty power outages and minor flooding, overall damage from Tropical Storm Hanna was minimal throughout most of the Albemarle area, officials said.

Back for its 16th season is the Avery County Agricultural and Horticultural Fair from Tuesday, September 9, through Saturday, September 13.

A charter school that began 10 years ago with fewer than 100 students in a small shopping center opened its own building Monday with more than 485 students.

THE woman known as the "manacled Mormon" kidnapper is wanted in America on burglary charges after allegedly trying to get money to buy a false leg for a three-legged horse.

Although she's become internationally known in recent weeks for cloning her dead dog, Joyce Bernann McKinney remains wanted in the Tri-Cities. You may have heard her unbelievable story.

A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She's the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of ...

In Act One of this story, a 57 year old woman has her dead pitbull, Booger, cloned in South Korea .