Jason Sandford
Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.
Mother pleads guilty
Latrice Miller, the Rutherford County mother whose three children – a 4-year-old and twin 2-year-olds – died last November in a hot car pleaded guilty to three charges of involuntary manslaughter and got three years probation and more than 100 hours of community service.
The prosecutor in the case said there’s not much good in putting mom in prison for years, and child advocates said everybody needs to learn a lesson from this case.
The children got into the car on Nov. 10 last year and couldn’t get out while the mother slept, according to police. It was a hot day, and temps inside the car reached 110 degrees. Jeremy Butterfield brought us the report.
Hotel fire
That fatal hotel fire in Greenville, S.C., back in 2004 is in the news because the person who set the fire has been found guilty and is now being sentenced. WLOSers have never really told us who the suspect is or why they did it. The suspect could face the death penalty.
Arson in West Asheville
Somebody purposefully set fire to a house under construction on Riverview Drive in West Asheville, WLOSers said fire officials said.
Spruce Pine fire
ATF and SBI officials were crawling all over Spruce Pine to try and figure out what happened in a couple of suspicious fires that burned down two buildings in town. On Sunday, WLOSers played dirge music over this story and made it sound like the entire town had burned down.
It’s hot outside
Terrie Foster told us that it’s hot outside while she held a bottle of water. She talked to kids at band camp at Reynolds High School. They said they take breaks and drink water to stay cool. On Monday, it got up to 89 in Ashvegas, one degree off the record of 1990 set in 1991.
In other news…
Warren Wilson College and the city of Asheville will share information on how to stop global warming and other climate issues…. And some chemical related to farming got into the Mills River last week and triggered a fish kill, but there wasn’t enough of the chemical to hurt people, according to WLOSers, who talked to water quality peeps.
