Taylor scored the fall over Appalachian State's Zachary Strickland to earn his spot in the quarterfinals.

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In the mountains of North Carolina, iReporter Matt Able said most of the roads around Appalachian State in Boone were impassible because of flooding.

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Last year, Appalachian State University suspended a professor for creating a "hostile environment" after she criticized the university's treatment of sexual-assault cases involving student-athletes and screened a documentary critical of the adult-film industry.

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He also received an honorary degree from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, where an endowment for Appalachian Studies is in his name, and he also received an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

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From Downington, head west about 70 miles to Harrisburg, the state capital, where the Appalachian Brewing Company hosts free brewery tours every Saturday at 1 pm.

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Revelers and trail blazers were filing down a street in the town near the Tennessee state line to celebrate the Appalachian Trail when the sedan veered off the road.

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After disappearing for several days and telling his staff he was out hiking the Appalachian Trail, Mr Sanford returned to the state to admit that he had been in Argentina with a mistress.

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In 2009, after disappearing for several days and telling his staff he was hiking the famed Appalachian Trail, the then-married Mr Sanford returned to the state to admit that he had been in Argentina with a mistress.

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Sanford famously left the state for five days in 2009, with staffers telling the media he was out hiking the Appalachian Trail.

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