North Carolina mother s attempted murder charge dropped
June 3, 2021
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) An attempted murder charge has been dropped against a North Carolina woman who authorities accused of faking her infant daughter’s kidnapping and trying to kill her.
Krista Noelle Madden was charged with first-degree attempted murder after her infant daughter was found 30 feet down a steep, heavily forested ravine in Henderson County on May 9, 2019, the Asheville Citizen Times reported.
Sean Devereux, Madden s attorney, said this week that psychological evaluations showed Madden was going through acute postpartum depression, as well as sleep deprivation, that resulted in a psychotic episode. Madden believed someone was going to harm her baby, so she drove to a rural area of the county and placed the baby at the bottom of an embankment, Devereux said.
New orchard of chestnut trees begins on Cherokee territory
CLARISSA DONNELLY-DEROVEN, Asheville Citizen Times
May 23, 2021
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) Imagine waking up 150 years ago, opening your window and looking out onto the Southern Appalachians. Within view would be any one of the billions of American chestnut trees that once covered the landscape. Places that are now considered coal country were chestnut country.
Today, not so much. The tree is considered functionally extinct, thanks to a fungus imported in on a tree from Japan in the late 1800s. The airborne fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, flings its spores onto the American chestnut until its bark develops sickly looking blisters that soon spread throughout its body, destroying the tree’s ability to grow tall enough to reproduce.
Supply chain issues bring loss in food donations to MANNA
MACKENSY LUNSFORD, Asheville Citizen Times
May 8, 2021
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1of11A MANNA FoodBank driver waves as they depart from the warehouse on Swannanoa River Road in Asheville, N.C., on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The nonprofit and its partner agencies last March served 128,690 people in Western North Carolina, a 93% jump from February to the onset of the pandemic. (Angela Wilhelm /The Asheville Citizen-Times via AP)Angela Wilhelm/APShow MoreShow Less
2of11MANNA FoodBank CEO Hanna Randall is photographed at the nonprofit s warehouse on Swannanoa River Road in Asheville, N.C., on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The nonprofit and its partner agencies last March served 128,690 people in Western North Carolina, a 93% jump from February to the onset of the pandemic. (Angela Wilhelm /The Asheville Citizen-Times via AP)Angela Wilhelm/APShow MoreShow Less