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  • The apparent stampede outside of a stadium in Cameroon has renewed the focus on prior warnings that the nation was ill-equipped to host the continent's biggest sporting event.
  • Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon was indicted by a federal grand jury for refusing to cooperate with the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
  • Nina Ireland is 34. She is an entrepreneur, and mom of four. She has lived in Asheville more than 30 years and calls the River Arts District home.
  • Kyle Turner, 62, is a retired federal civil servant and veteran, a nonprofit grant writer, and an advocate for housing and youth in transition. He lives in Lucerne Park in West Asheville. He has two daughters who are twenty years apart in age. He has lived in Asheville just over two years.
  • Tiffany DeBellott, 29 is Executive Director at the Center for Participatory Change. She has two daughters. She has lived in Asheville for 29 years and currently lives in the Burton Street Legacy Neighborhood.
  • After decades of success, director Martin Scorsese has his first Oscar. His film The Departed also won Best Picture. Among actors, Forest Whitaker was honored for playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, Helen Mirren for The Queen.
  • $500 million in new EPA funding for small lenders could pave the way for more clean energy in rural areas across the region.
  • The changing climate is especially brutal in India. Temperatures are soaring. Asphalt roads are melting. People are dying.
  • Carla Hall can't stand sardines. In fact, she hasn't eaten them since childhood. But sardines are nutritious, safe and sustainable, so we gave her a challenge: Make them tasty, too.
  • The ABA Journal, the magazine of the American Bar Association, recently ranked the top 25 legal shows in television history. L.A. Law ranked at the top of the list, beating Perry Mason. ABA Journal editor and publisher Edward Adams offers his insight.
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