The historic Biltmore Estate, an Asheville icon, works to recover from Helene damage

The historic Biltmore Estate, an Asheville icon, works to recover from Helene damage

The Biltmore Estate, the extravagant former home of the Vanderbilts and one of North Carolina’s biggest attractions, was among the structures slammed by the remnants of Hurricane Helene last week. Buncombe County, where the 8,000-acre estate is located, is considered among the hardest hit by Helene. As of Thursday, at least 72 people had died…

The poor woman who went camping with her boyfriend got a splinter stuck in her hand by the stream while preparing for a barbecue. She didn’t care and just bandaged the wound. When she returned home, she thought she had a pimple on her hand at first. She was immediately examined by her boyfriend at…

Photos: As Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday, a look through the decades

Photos: As Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday, a look through the decades

immy Carter is 100 years old. The 39th president, who has been in home hospice care since February of last year, received birthday wishes from many, including President Biden, as well as a parade in his honor in his birthplace of Plains, Ga. A star-studded celebration of Carter’s birthday took place in Atlanta in September….

Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how oppression can breed oppression in ‘The Message’

Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how oppression can breed oppression in ‘The Message’

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates says he long felt the pull to visit Africa — and yet it was a trip he kept putting off. “When you’re Black in this country, Africa — or the story that’s told about Africa — is a weight,” Coates says. “I always knew it was a trip that I had to…

Loved ones search for the hundreds of people still missing after Helene

Loved ones search for the hundreds of people still missing after Helene

Turbo Tetterton found out Sunday night that people outside her storm-beaten neighborhood in Asheville, N.C., were reporting her missing after no one could reach her following Hurricane Helene’s destructive path through her mountain community. Tetterton and several of her Asheville neighbors were using Wi-Fi from a hot spot trailer provided by county officials to help…

This disabled woman built a career. A federal program that helped now penalizes her

This disabled woman built a career. A federal program that helped now penalizes her

Tabi Haly defies expectations. She’s a woman with a progressive muscular illness; she can’t move her body and she needs round-the-clock care from aides. She wasn’t expected to go to college, or to get a job — much less become a vice president at the banking giant JPMorgan Chase. Even staying alive and healthy defied…

Video shows the moment a Kentucky judge was shot to death

Video shows the moment a Kentucky judge was shot to death

A Kentucky sheriff shot and killed a local judge last month after seeing his teenage daughter’s number on the judge’s phone, according to court testimony Tuesday. Police say Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines dialed his daughter’s number from District Judge Kevin Mullins’ phone, then pulled his gun and shot Mullins repeatedly inside his own chambers…

Shovel by shovel, N.C. towns dig out from Helene mud and debris

Shovel by shovel, N.C. towns dig out from Helene mud and debris

MARSHALL, N.C. – Everything in this riverside town is still covered in mud. Lots of mud. It slops from either side of the road graders trying to scrape it off Main Street. It fills homes, the church and storefronts. The floor of an untouched art studio looks like a rippled riverbed, which – like everything…

Lekundje termeti ne vendin tone. Ja sa ishte magnituda

Lekundje termeti ne vendin tone. Ja sa ishte magnituda

Lekundje termeti jane ndjer ne Elbasan. Por fatmiresishte cdo gje ka shkuar mire pasi magnituda ishte e ulet dhe nuk ka pasur probleme. Sipas EMSC, tërmeti ka qenë me magnitudë 2.9 i shkallës Rihter, ndërsa epiqendra e tij ka qenë 8 km në verilindje të Elbasanit dhe 37 km në juglindje të Tiranës. Lëkundjet janë…