Preacher Billy Graham admitted to NC hospital
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) A spokesman for the Rev. Billy Graham says the famous evangelist has been taken to a hospital near his home in North Carolina for treatment of his lungs.
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Dickinson Press Staff | 2:37 pm, Nov. 30, 2011
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) A spokesman for the Rev. Billy Graham says the famous evangelist has been taken to a hospital near his home in North Carolina for treatment of his lungs.
Spokesman A. Larry Ross says Graham was admitted Wednesday to Mission Hospital in Asheville with congestion, a cough and slight fever.
UPDATE: Man killed in wall collapse at Hajoca identified
UPDATE: A man who died Wednesday morning after a retaining wall collapsed on a construction crew at the Hajoca parking lot in Hendersonville has been identified.
The individual who succumbed to his injuries at the scene has been identified as 37-year-old Marcelino Godofredo Rendon Hernandez, according to city of Hendersonville Communications Manager Allison Justus.
Hernandez was one of a five-man masonry crew with Robert Crawford Masonry working on the wall when it collapsed.
When first responders arrived, they found at least four of the men trapped under the wall. One crew member, who escaped on his own with minor injuries, told emergency personnel there were four crew members working with him.
Four months after voting by 70 percent to form a union, registered nurses at HCA’s Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC will begin negotiations with hospital management today for a first collective bargaining contract, announced National Nurses Organizing Committee-North Carolina/National Nurses United (NNOC-NC/NNU).