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<title><![CDATA[Ashe County attorney indicted for embezzlement]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[ A former attorney in Ashe County was indicted today on 26 felony counts related to embezzling more than $3.3 million money from clients, as well as other felonies related to financial malfeasance. 
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:29:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Program to save pastureland helps farmers stay in business]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Wilkes County farmer Claude Shew Jr., who bought his farm with his dad in 1978, has never seen a drought like the one the state is in now.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Boone proposal to tap river has residents raging]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Folks on the front porch of the Riverside General Store in Ashe County yesterday criticized<b> </b>a proposal by the town of Boone to put a raw-water intake on the South Fork of the New River.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Protecting History ]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Christmas tree farmer Dale Shepherd was hours from death, hardly able to breathe or speak because of his lung disease, when he told his farm foreman that he was leaving Ashe County's Pond Mountain to the foreman and another worker.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Heritage Turns 10  ]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[It was 10 years ago this summer that President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore visited the banks of the New River in Ashe County to designate the river as an American Heritage River.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Letter-perfect so far, speller from Watauga County advances]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Standing on the stage at the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee yesterday, one might think that 14-year-old Baron Fenwick from Todd, N.C., is struggling to spell such words as <i>solatium</i> and <i>spherocytosis</i>.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Farm Fare: Schools get nutrition grants]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Come next school year, two area elementary schools will be offering fruits and vegetables in classrooms, hallways and near buses to turn children on to healthier snacks.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fuuuuun Run: Extreme runner promotes benefit race]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Annette Bednosky is an ultramarathon runner who thinks running the road to the top of Mount Jefferson is a nice change-of-pace workout to lighten things up a bit.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Economic index shows decline in Western N.C.]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The economy in Western North Carolina slowed again in March, falling 0.2 percentage points and erasing gains made in January and February.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Butler wins primary for 45th Senate seat]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Boone dentist Jerry Butler won yesterday's Republican primary for the state Senate's 45th District, beating Taylorsville businessman Dwight Shook.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 06 May 2008 22:21:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Windowless Cell: Investigators scramble for evidence, a community mourns, and the accused awaits trial, insisting that he is not guilty]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The day after the Jan. 24 killings at Ron Hudler's Christmas-tree farm in Grassy Creek, Freddie Hammer packed up and left for the Gulf Coast of Florida.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jimmy Disappears: Suspicions about Freddie Hammer intensify, but evidence of wrongdoing isn't there]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Thelma Hurley watched from her kitchen window as her grandson, Jimmy Blevins, walked out of his trailer and climbed into Freddie Hammer's truck.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Three killings at the home of an esteemed family rocked the hills]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[It was shortly before 1 p.m. on Jan. 24 when Amanda Clark-Miller's cell phone rang.

"Where's John working today?" asked her friend, Shannon Long Blevins.

"Shannon, my sister-in-law just called and asked me the same question," Clark-Miller said. "What the hell is going on?"]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Suspect did time in 1978 killing]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[CRUMPLER  The man charged with three counts of capital murder in last week's killings at a Christmas-tree farm in Grayson County, Va., served prison time after a conviction in the killing of an off-duty Philadelphia police officer in 1978, but was acquitted of the officer's death at a second trial. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[3 charges of murder filed]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[INDEPENDENCE, VA.  Authorities charged an Ashe County man yesterday in connection with the killings of three people at a Grayson County Christmas tree farm. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wind-farm developer lacks money for studies]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[An Ashe County man trying to build a commercial wind farm in Creston said yesterday that he doesn't have the money to continue to do studies requested by the N.C. Utilities Commission.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:27:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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