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jacob biba
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freelance reporter in asheville
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last story/last day at the citizen times

www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...
November 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Bovino just replying to random people on x about coming to north Carolina now
November 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
November 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
“We have learned that Asheville may be a targeted city.”
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Stein statement
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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U.S. Border Patrol agents are slated to arrive in Charlotte as soon as Saturday, November 15, @jacobbiba.bsky.social reports. www.theassemblync.com/news/politic...
Federal Agents Are Coming to Charlotte. Here's What to Know.
The Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Department said U.S. Border Patrol agents will be deployed to Charlotte as early as November 15.
www.theassemblync.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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This week a federal prison CO died in a crash on the way back from work.

According to both prisoners & staff I have talked to, he'd just finished working 16 hours, half of which was mandated overtime because the agency is understaffed. thewynneprogress.com/one-killed-i...
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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“He joined the Border Patrol in 1996 and is nearing the agency’s mandatory retirement age of 57. He eventually plans to return home to North Carolina to harvest apples.”

apnews.com/article/bovi...
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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just checked in on matt taibbi and he's claiming that covid was created in a north carolina research lab as part of a joint CIA and Chinese intelligence operation
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
or b/c of this:

Later this fall, he said, he would like to get back to North Carolina for bear-hunting season. “But I have a feeling that I may be continuing to make America a safer place,” he said, “and that always takes precedence over anything personal.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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complain all you want about the post, who cares, but this is a good story.
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
SNAP benefits going out tomorrow morning, per NCDHHS
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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BREAKING: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt stops the scheduled execution of Tremane Wood today, commuting his sentence to life without parole.

In doing so, Stitt accepted the recommendation of the Pardon and Parole Board. This is Stitt’s second death-sentence commutation as governor.
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"Most people who die in prison stand a good chance of dying alone — a fate described by current and former inmates as worse than death itself."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
A Prison Hospice Program for the Living and the Dying
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
November 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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“Infants were impacted more than any other group—and many died at least twenty-one months after the storm in question, meaning that they had not been conceived at the time of landfall.”

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Hidden Devastation of Hurricanes
Their health effects extend far beyond official death tolls.
www.newyorker.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Does a family of bears impact the habitability of a property? #nccourts
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
big week for dying mall content

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/m...
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
only thing that place was good for
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Always love being reminded of Carolina Circle. Always somewhat sad when there's no mention of the deer that broke through the glass windows there and fell from off the 2nd floor, landing near the ice rink. Like that should have been a sign that place was doomed.

ohenrymag.com/it-was-a-mal...
It Was a Mall World After All | O.Henry Magazine
IT WAS A MALL WORLD AFTER ALL Home It Was a Mall World After All Travel back to long before online commerce was conceived By Billy IngramIn 1987, the debut ...
ohenrymag.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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As other sites headline the Epstein emails, Fox News tops its home page with something truly scandalous: university administrators in NC discussing what anti-DEI directives do and do not prohibit them from doing.
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
November 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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A Durham woman’s foundation is collapsing after 28 years of erosion from a stormwater pipe.

The city shares ownership of the pipe. A local nonprofit sold her the house. Who’s responsible? (for @indyweek.bsky.social)
A Stormwater Pipe Is Destroying Her Home. Who’s Responsible?
Mandy McGhee bought her Walltown home through a program designed to help low-income buyers build generational wealth. But a stormwater pipe that’s been eroding her foundation for years is putting that...
indyweek.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM