Posted: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 11:20 pm | Updated: 12:01 am, Wed Sep 9, 2015. Jury picks begin in Pennsylvania priest’s sex tourism case Associated Press | PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jury selection is expected to go another day in the…

Bruce Eckard, board chairman of the Hickory-Conover Tourism Development Authority (TDA) has announced that Bebe Leitch, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the organization will retire at the end of this year. As chief executive of the TDA, she managed both…

The Town of Boone Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) announces that work will begin this month on a Historic Resources Survey of Downtown Boone. The Town of Boone Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) announces that work will begin this month on a Historic…

Quick: Where is this year’s World’s Fair being held? I didn’t know either, but a Google search revealed it’s taking place in Milan, Italy. I started thinking about World’s Fairs when editing Page Onorato’s column about snack foods that made…

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Tougher state and federal rules on pollution mean Western North Carolina now has far more days with clean air, as seen in this view from the Blue Ridge Parkway outside Asheville Monday.(Photo: Angeli Wright/awright@citizen-times.com) ASHEVILLE – In the late 1990s,…

SALISBURY, NC (WBTV) – “It is with the greatest pride that The Land Trust for Central North Carolina announces the preservation of one of North Carolina’s most significant historic sites,” began the press release announcing that the Land Trust has…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — For Dina Kellams, it was the end of a quest. Kellams, director of university archives and records management at Indiana University, had been on a mission. After finding a newspaper clipping that named Carrie Parker as…

By STEVE HELBER, PAM RAMSEY and JONATHAN DREWAssociated Press MONETA, Va. (AP) – He planned it all so carefully – a choreographed execution of two former colleagues, broadcast live to a horrified television audience. Hours later, he shared his own…

By MIRIAM BERGERAssociated Press HOLOT DETENTION FACILITY, Israel (AP) – Faysal Hussein from Sudan walked out of Israel’s desert detention center Tuesday already sweating with just a backpack, barely enough cash for bus fare and lunch, and after 19 months…