Asheville, N.C.
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Asheville, N.C.
Thursday night’s City Council candidate forum did not end with closing statements about the vision candidates have for the city, but with a heated shouting match between council member Cecil Bothwell and Jonathan Wainscott.
Around 4:45 p.m. this afternoon, Asheville Police received a call that two men were fighting in front of the Decko Gecko sculpture in Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville. When officers got to the scene, Lt. Wally Welch explains, they found that one man had been struck in the head with a cane and cut with a knife; the other man had been cut on his cheek. ***WARNING This post contains a graphic image with blood*** (Photo by Max Cooper)
Carl Mumpower, the Asheville City member running for a seat in Congress, fired his son from his campaign Friday after 24-year-old John Matthew Mumpower was arrested and charged with slugging another man at Wild Wing Cafe.
The Bier Garden will have its liquor license suspended for three days and pay $5,000 in fines as part of a deal reached with the state Alcohol Beverage Control Commission.
A manager and an employee at the Bier Garden, a bar and restaurant in downtown Asheville, were arrested on assault charges after fighting with an Alcohol Law Enforcement agent early on the morning of Saturday, May 24. ALE alleges that the agent, David Miller, was attacked while trying to write tickets to employees and their […]
ALE agent David Miller was belligerent and threatening in a fight with a Bier Garden manager and employee on May 24, manager Malcolm Knighten asserted in a 911 call that night.
A manager and employee at the Bier Garden were arrested on assault charges after fighting with an Alcohol Law Enforcement agent early last Saturday morning. ALE claims that the agent, David Miller, was attacked while trying to write tickets to employees and their friends, who were drinking after hours.