This story says U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler wants church-going folks to watch the Super Bowl:
U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, (D-North Carolina) had written to the NFL’s commissioner, asking that worship centers be exempted from the ban if they do not charge admission to Superbowl screenings.
Asheville police make an arrest in a shooting that shocked us last summer:
Asheville police have arrested a suspect in a shooting that happened at a recreation center in July. Police arrested 21-year-old Tilman DeAngelo Jackson. Officials say Jackson was involved in the shooting at the Stephens-Lee Recreation Center on George Washington Carver Street in July.
About 70 people were in the center’s gymnasium for a regular community pick-up basketball game when, according to witnesses, a man with his face and head covered entered the gym through its main entrance and began shooting toward people in seated in the bleachers. Three people were shot and each sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
And this story says that the Transylvania County sheriff is convinced that Gary Hilton killed John and Irene Bryant last year:
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Transylvania County Sheriff David Mahoney said Friday there is “no question” that a man who pleaded guilty to murdering a hiker in Georgia is responsible for a similar case in North Carolina.
Mahoney said North Carolina authorities attempted to interview 61-year-old Gary Michael Hilton in Georgia on Thursday, but Hilton asked for an attorney to represent him in the case.
“We weren’t really able to have any conversation with him,” Mahoney said.
Hilton pleaded guilty Thursday to killing 24-year-old Meredith Emerson in the mountains of northern Georgia. He was immediately sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years.
Mahoney said Friday he had no doubt that Hilton also is responsible for the beating death of Irene Bryant, 84, whose body was found near a hiking trail in western North Carolina. She and her husband, John, went missing in October after setting out for a hike in the Pisgah National Forest.