ASHEVILLE - As of noon June 14, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services tallied 44,119 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 statewide. That's an increase of 1,443 from the previous day.
On Sunday, the NCDHHS statewide death total is 1,109 , an increase of 5 over the previous day, with 798 people hospitalized across the state.
Friday's increase of 1,768 was the highest daily case jump overall, topping the previous high June 6 by almost 400 cases.
As of about noon June 14, Buncombe County reported 449 total cases and 34 deaths.
These numbers, because of independent updating times, differ slightly from the Johns Hopkins University report above.
In the Unites States as of about 12:33 p.m. June 14, JHU counted 2,081,296 confirmed cases and 115,521 deaths as a result of COVID-19.
Confirmed cases in other Western North Carolina counties, according to state counts:
- Avery: 6 case, 0 deaths.
- Cherokee: 30 cases, 1 death.
- Clay: 9 cases, 0 deaths.
- Graham: 6 cases, 0 deaths.
- Haywood: 65 cases, 0 deaths.
- Henderson: 441 cases, 48 deaths.
- Jackson: 59 cases, 1 death.
- Macon: 217 cases, 1 death.
- Madison: 5 cases, 0 deaths. (The county reported a fifth case June 11.)
- McDowell: 151 cases, 1 death.
- Mecklenburg: 7131 cases, 121 deaths.
- Mitchell: 16 cases, 0 deaths.
- Polk: 55 cases, 4 deaths.
- Swain: 39 cases, 0 deaths.
- Transylvania: 17 cases, 1 deaths.
- Watauga: 43 cases, 0 deaths.
- Yancey: 26 cases, 0 deaths.
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Bobby Medford family blames BOP for death
In 2008, Former Buncombe County Sheriff Bobby Lee Medford received a 15-year federal prison sentence after being convicted on corruption and extortion charges.
It was not a death sentence, but some of his relatives say it became one this spring after Medford, 74, contracted COVID-19 and died on June 3 while still in federal custody. The former lawman suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, and he had contracted the dangerous bacterial infection MRSA three times while incarcerated at the Butner Federal Correctional Institute in the eastern part of North Carolina, loved ones say.
Medford's partner of 30 years, Arden resident Judi Bell, said she knows a lawsuit against the federal Bureau of Prisons likely would be futile, but she would sue if she could.
"Yes, I would, because as far as I'm concerned, they killed him," Bell said in a telephone interview.
The facility has the most cases of COVID-19 of any federal prison facility, according to a legal petition filed by Asheville attorney Sean Devereux. In late March and again in early April, U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr issued memos instructing the BOP to maximize home confinement for inmates at several federal prisons — in short, to release as many non-violent, qualified offenders as possible, because of the threat of COVID-19.
Weigh in on Nantahala-Pisgah National Forest draft plan
When Julie White slides through the Pisgah National Forest on her beloved mountain bike several times a week, she's not racing to a destination.
White is using the time to see which wildflowers have bloomed along the forest trails near her Black Mountain home, to stop and marvel at mountain vistas, and to sustain her physical and mental health amidst the nonstop turmoil in the world.
Sometimes she can find a quiet trail or old logging road without another soul, a treat since White is one of some 5 million people who come each year from across the world to recreate and connect with nature in Western North Carolina's national forests, which cover about 1.1 million acres of rugged, rolling, scenic terrain.
She is also one of the many forest users who are now weighing in on their approvals and criticisms of how the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forest Draft Plan addresses outdoor recreation that includes everything from hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, rock and ice climbing, to kayaking, fishing, horseback riding, electronic bicycling, bird watching and drone flying.
The nearly 300-page draft plan, a document required by law to be revised every 15 years, and its corresponding draft Environmental Impact Statement, are now open for public comment through June 29.
John Boyle: The time is now
Veneration.
That's the key word we're looking for when it comes to Confederate monuments and the debate about whether they should stay or go.
I believe that now, 155 years after the Civil War ended, we're finally coming to grips with just exactly what these monuments literally stand for, and why they were put up in the first place. After all those decades, it took eight minutes and 46 seconds of excruciating video of a white officer literally kneeling on the neck of a black man, George Floyd, claiming his life, to bring it all home.
It's crystal clear now these Confederate monuments carry a message of white superiority entwined with heartless oppression and the mythology of the Lost Cause. In most cases, they were erected in the late 1800s or early 1900s, just as the Jim Crow era started heating up — a not-so-subtle reminder of just who was in charge.
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