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Saturday, July 5, 2025
They’re on the run, but getting away isn’t their primary goal. They’re not prostitutes, but they pick up men of all ages and income brackets. They’re the PMS Outlaws, and they’re teaching a nation full of testosterone-poisoned males about the perils of lechery. New York Times bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb […]
Betty’s such a sweet girl. She works at a diner in Kansas, and even though she watches her favorite soap opera while she’s working, she’s still on top of her job. Her coworkers love her, and the customers do too. To top it all off, she’s played by the unnaturally […]
Progress towards the construction of Western Carolina University’s new Fine and Performing Arts Center museum has been the topic of conversation for many individuals on campus. With plans for a ground-breaking ceremony scheduled for March 8, it is sure to be an event that brings interest and curiosity to reporters, […]
GREENVILLE, SC – This weekend I witnessed the 2001 Mountain Dew Southern Conference Basketball Championships from the grocery store arena, otherwise known as the Bi-Lo Center. In all, the tournament, hosted by Greenville and produced by the Southern Conference, was a success despite the negative returns in the pocketbooks of […]
Western Carolina University’s planned Regional Laborforce Development Center cleared a major hurdle Wednesday, February 28 when bids for construction came in about $904,000 under the total construction funds available. The 28,000-square-foot high-technology training facility is to be built and equipped with $6 million in federal funds secured over the past […]
The surprise is not that Western Carolina University student Crystal Olson was named to a USA Today College Academic Team. The surprise is that she can find the time to talk about it. Perhaps it was the WCU junior’s busy schedule of academic and extracurricular activities that impressed the judges […]
One of the nation’s most high-profile attorneys told a crowd at Western Carolina University Thursday, March 1 that lawyers are the “last bastion” of defense protecting the public and individual civil liberties against the government. Alan Dershowitz spoke before nearly 1,000 people at WCU’s Ramsey Regional Activity Center. After meeting […]
Public service announcements for the American Red Cross prepared by two Western Carolina University classes recently received top honors at a statewide communications banquet. The first-place award was presented at the North Carolina Red Cross Awards held in Myrtle Beach, SC, in recognition of a series of audio public service […]
Western Carolina University is the first four-year institution in the state to receive recertification of its postsecondary criminal justice education program by the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission. The certification was announced by N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper. Fred Hawley, professor of criminal justice at WCU, […]
GREENVILLE, SC – As a part of the Southern Conference basketball championships, postseason honors were announced Thursday with several Western Carolina Catamounts earning accolades. The Lady Catamounts enjoyed their best season since the 1988-89 campaign. Their 13-14 overall mark was the best since ’88 when the team that season equaled […]
