Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied US efforts to topple him, died on Friday. He was 90. Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela, led the tributes from world leaders after the announcement, which was greeted ... Read More »

North Carolina in the summertime is home to multitudes of wild blackberries ripening on spindly, thorny bushes along shrubby fence lines and roadways, but in recent years, the berries have crept into commercial growing operations. Blackberries first started to be seriously commercially grown in Henderson County around 2010, when a ... Read More »