An Indiana man has been arrested for allegedly beating his own mother to death before stuffing her inside a wooden box and setting the body on fire in a backyard "burn pit." Nicholas Thomas Yates, 20, ...

Thomas Yates Keesler, 69, an Asheville-area resident for more than a quarter-century, died Sunday, March 16, 2025, at FirstHealth Hospital in Pinehurst after a long struggle with cancer. The funeral ...