A 25-year-old woman was killed by lightning while hiking in North Carolina — just minutes before her boyfriend was to ask for her hand in marriage, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported Tuesday.

He never got to pop the question. “God, baby, look how beautiful it is,” Lott said of the mountain vista just before the bolt hit her. Those turned out to be her last words. Butler, who was also hit, ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C., June 8 (UPI) -- A woman who died after being struck by lightning was hiking up a North Carolina mountain where her boyfriend says he intended to propose. Thunderstorms rolled through ...

A woman was killed by lightning as her boyfriend took her hiking in the North Carolina mountains in order to propose marriage. Richard Butler, 30, who suffered burns, said the last words of Bethany ...