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Wrapping up the news

Jason Sandford February 24, 2006

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

Mary Judlicka got her hair did. Good for her!

Somebody drained the account of a WLOS employee. That was the lead story last night at 11. Ruby Mayfield told us how she watched online as somebody in Russia drained her account and left her penniless. Cherub Charu brought us the story and said this sort of thing happens quite a lot. REaaalllyy?

Parents are outraged over a school bus wreck at an intersection on Mills Gap Road. It’s a bad intersection and something needs to be done, the parents say. This comes after an Avery’s Creek Elementary School bus hit an SUV driven by a mom who pulled out in front of said bus. Police charged mommy with DUI. Ooops. Hitting the Chard a little too early, I suppose.

WLOSers have been following another Mills Gap Road-related story – the sad tale of a local woman who died in a car wreck. She was a passenger in on car as its driver raced another driver down the road. The sad twist – the day before the wreck, the young woman had just finished cancer treatments. Damn.

In a scandalous report out of Jackson County, we learn that a 36-year-old bus driver was charged with having sex with a 17-year-old students. For all of my loyal readers who immediately jump on this by shouting that the girl was at the age of consent, just hold on there. WLOSers tell us that even though the girl was 17, the sex (which occured in the guy’s truck off campus) was still against the law because he was a school employee, and state law forbids people like teachers, principals and apparently bus drivers from doin’ the nasty. You, loyal readers, are some lucky sunsabiotches.

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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4 Comments

mike February 26, 2006

Why Rutherford County? see http://www.ashvegas.squarespace.com/journal/2005/12/3/wlos-why-so-many-rutherford-stories.html

Short version: Rutherford, Polk and McDowell counties are important in the "business" side of things — they’r sort of "swing counties" in the division of counties for Nielsen market definitions. Charlotte and Gvl-Spbg-Avl both want to lay claim, in particular, to Rutherford — those additional viewers are important to add into your audience figures for setting advertising rates. And within this market, WSPA and WLOS particularly want to maintain dominance of Rutherford and Polk. For WLOS, Spindale is relatively centrally located among the three counties, it’s possible to get a microwave signal from the Isothermal Community College campus (and not from many other places within those three counties), and being located at ICC can help in other ways (they have a radio/tv program, so they occasionally feed new employees into the WLOS ranks, and their engineer occasionally can help with some technical issues without WLOS having to send someone down).

OK, so that didn’t turn out to be such a "short" version. So, sue me.

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yocat February 25, 2006

Poor Mary, all the way down in Rutherford county with bad hair and no body gives a shit about her reports. WHY Rutherford co. anyway? Mabey now you can report about an area closer to home.

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Rio February 24, 2006

I need to send this to my mom, who thought I was just being a snob years ago for refusing to ride the bus to Enka High. (and I thought the redneck guys who were flirting with me by offering me a dip of Skoal was bad!)

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Edgy Mama February 24, 2006

Last para: occurred

Why are we lucky?

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