Amusement park manager in Smoky Mountains faces murder trial after ...
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
By Duncan Mansfield. SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. -- The manager of a roadside amusement park in a Great Smoky Mountains tourist town is to stand trial for murder this ...

New development will bring thousands of jobs
WVLT - Knoxville,TN,USA
Pigeon Forge, Sevier County (WVLT) - A group of developers made an announcement Monday in Pigeon Forge, almost as big as the Smoky Mountains themselves. ...

Behind the scenes of Slate Quarries of Panther Creek
WBIR-TV - Knoxville,TN,USA
It'sa well known fact that the treasures of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are substantial. They include, of course, include ...

Council may take up water discussions tonight
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
ASHEVILLE - Asheville residents and others concerned about the region's water system will have their first opportunity this evening to listen to discussion ...

AB Tech, UNCA form partnership
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
ASHEVILLE -- Only about four miles separate the campuses of UNC Asheville and Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, but on Monday, the city's ...

Police briefs
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
... truck driver, Curtis Dwayne Blankenship of Gaffney, SC, was cited for failing to reduce speed to avoid an accident, according the Asheville Police Department ...

Mills Manufacturing cuts jobs
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
ASHEVILLE -- Family-owned parachute maker Mills Manufacturing will cut its work force by more than half as military orders have dwindled over the past two ...

Two Women Hurt Saturday In Wreck On Asheville Hwy.
Greeneville Sun - Greeneville,TN,USA
A three-vehicle accident on Asheville Highway near Blazer Lane about 12:30 pm on Saturday, May 7, critically injured one woman and less seriously hurt a second ...

Pitching-challenged Pirates have all arms on deck tonight
Greenville Daily Reflector - Greenville,NC,USA
... Carolina. ECU's next opponent, UNC Asheville, has been enjoying time off, too. ... Where ECU and UNC Asheville will play still is uncertain. Mazey ...

Program teaches ways to support soldiers' families
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
ASHEVILLE -- Since her husband was deployed with the 105th Military Police to Iraq last fall, Lana Greer spends a lot of time "sitting and waiting to hear ...

Maryland Developer to Restore Slave Cabin
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... A tumbledown shack that may have been a slave cabin in the mid ... The shack, known as the Molly Berry Cabin, was hidden until recently in a whorl of brush. ...

Log cabin safety brings discussion at council meeting
Linton Daily Citizen - Linton,IN,USA
The old log cabin that sits in the middle of Humphreys Park was a hot topic at Monday night's regular meeting of the Linton City Council. ...

Lufthansa, Cabin Crew Agree Pay Freeze
Airwise - USA
Lufthansa reached a pay deal with cabin crew guaranteeing more than 14,000 jobs in return for increased flexibility and productivity, the UFO union and the ...

JAL plane's cabin pressure valve malfunctioned
Japan Today - Tokyo,Japan
TOKYO -- A transport ministry panel found Monday that one of the cabin pressure control valves on a Japan Airlines jumbo jet that made an emergency landing ...

A THREE-HOUR DELAY, TINY CABIN AND LIMP LETTUCE ..BUT AT £20 A ...
Mirror.co.uk - UK
... I was joining easyCruiseone - a budget holiday where a cabin costs as little as £20 a night - launched by Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the man behind easyJet and ...

CABIN FEVER 2 status report
Fangoria - USA
The much-anticipated sequel to Eli Roth's splattery success CABIN FEVER is currently in legal limbo and may never be made, according to Adam Green, writer ...

Man awakened when tree hits his Lokoya Road home
NapaNet Daily News - Napa,CA,USA
... Schreiber was asleep in his cabin on 1200 block of Lokoya Road when shortly after midnight a 100-foot tree collapsed and came crashing through his home. ...

Lufthansa, cabin crew reach wage accord
Financial Express - Bombay,India
... hours a month when needed in exchange for job security and a salary increase of at least 2.5% starting January 1, 2007, Mirco Vorwerk, the cabin crew union's ...

LOCAL BRIEFS
Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee,FL,USA
A Leon County teenager died after he was involved in an all-terrain-vehicle crash on Ashville Highlands Drive in Jefferson County on Sunday, said the Florida ...

Changes to proposal for rural Beach site irks some residents
Virginian Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
... They negotiated concessions from Lewis McMurran III, developer of the proposed 452-acre Ashville Park. ... The Sandlers are proposing 499 homes at Ashville Park. ...

Render unto Caesar, or you're out
Carlisle Sentinel - Carlisle,PA,USA
... Chandler's lawyer told the Ashville, NC Citizen-Times Sunday that nobody was voted out of the church and Chandler himself called it a "misunderstanding ...

Rockland makes 100 best art towns list
Knox Village Soup - ME,USA
... top 10 art towns list with populations between 30,000 and 100,000 include, in order, Loveland, Colo.; Sarasota, Fla.; Hot Springs, Ark.; Ashville, NC; Boulder ...

Talkin' turkey
Delphos Herald - Delphos,OH,USA
... It was home to Thomas Wolfe, one of the finest writers America has produced. Our main reason for heading to Asheville was to visit the Biltmore House. ...

Suspect Sought In Blue Ridge Shooting
KIROtv.com - Seattle,WA,USA
SEATTLE -- Police are looking for a 70-year-old man in connection with a shooting in Seattle's Blue Ridge neighborhood that left another man wounded, KIRO 7 ...

Man shot in blue ridge neighborhood
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
Seattle police are investigating a shooting in the 10200 block of Belgrove Court Northwest, in the Blue Ridge neighborhood. About ...

Blue Ridge Paper Products Inc. Announces Investor Conference Call
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
CANTON, NC--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 2005--Blue Ridge Paper Products Inc. (Bloomberg: bluerd) announced today it will host a conference ...

SC Track and Cross Country Coaches Association's All-State teams
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
100: Shantrell Jenkins (Ridge View); Septima Glenn (Blue Ridge); Carmisa Morris (Carolina Academy); Amy Temoney (Green Sea-Floyds ); Brittany Hollings (Columbia ...

Streicher Mobile Fueling, Inc. Announces Financial Details of ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... improved delivery scheduling, decreased equipment rentals and better ... markets in California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee ...

Crime reports - May 9
Hilton Head Island Packet - Hilton Head Island,SC,USA
... and Rentals in Coligny Plaza, 1 North Forest Beach ... the area and discovered RH Realty and Rentals' back door ... on the University of South Carolina Beaufort campus ...

Unusual murder trial set in amusement-ride fall
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
By DUNCAN MANSFIELD. SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. -- Barring a last-minute plea, the manager of a roadside amusement park in the Smoky Mountain tourist town of Pigeon ...

'Run into Summer' at Mt. Nebo's 5K
Russellville Courier - Russellville,AR,USA
... a left at the top of the mountain, a left at the tennis court, then turn into the field on the right. Mt. Nebo State Park has a limited number of cabins and 25 ...

Democrats Voted Out Of Western North Carolina Church Due To ...
Blogger News Network - USA
President Bush, before a cheering crowd of tens of thousands of people, said Tuesday that the former Soviet republic of Georgia is proving to the world that ...

North Carolina Protestors Demand Gay Marriage Amendment
365Gay.com - USA
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff. (Raleigh, North Carolina) Several hundred people demonstrated at the North Carolina legislature Tuesday in support of a ...

North Carolina Gov. loses control of race car - again
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
He climbed into a stock car at the Executive Mansion on Tuesday, blasted out of the driveway and promptly lost control of his No. ...

UPM to build radio frequency tag plant in North Carolina
Forbes - USA
HELSINKI (AFX) - UPM-Kymmene Corp's Rafsec said it is to build a new plant in Fletcher, North Carolina, specialising in radio frequency (RFID) tags. ...

North Carolina Cohabitation Law Should be Settled in Legislature ...
The Yellow Line - USA
North Carolina's 200-year old law forbidding co-habitation is probably on its way out the door, AP reports. That's right, in ...

Clarkston Consulting is Named One of North Carolina's Best ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
4 in the first "Best Employers in North Carolina" competition compiled by the Best Companies Group, Inc. The competition was an ...

Triathlon: Hunter & Smith Take North Carolina Qualifier
RunnersWeb - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
(St. Paul, MN - 5/9/05) Perennial USAT All American, Sian Hunter, 38, of Chapel Hill, NC, won her state's "Best of the US..." qualifying ...

North Carolina
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
... to a federal appeals court Monday to overcome a lower-court judge who has blocked work on a proposed landing field in eastern North Carolina pending more ...

MTSU, North Carolina State game in the works
WHNT - Huntsville,AL,USA
CHARLOTTE, NC It looks like Middle Tennessee State and North Carolina State are going to play football this fall. North Carolina ...

North Carolina researchers say nucleic test can detect HIV ...
The Advocate - Los Angeles,CA,USA
North Carolina researchers say they've developed a sophisticated test that can save lives by detecting HIV infections weeks earlier than the standard screening ...