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Autopsy shows Jackson jail death was an overdose
Published: 2022-12-09 16:21:16Autopsy results for the June death of a man in custody at Jackson County Detention Center indicate that he died of a drug overdose and was able to engage in drug dealing activity while incarcerated. . “Based on postmortem examination and investigative ...
Read MoreCouple calls out FedEx after driver admits to 17 break-ins
Published: 2022-11-23 14:53:16A couple that owns a home near Highlands is speaking out after they say FedEx failed to act even after warned that one of its drivers was likely robbing several homes along his route. . By the time Gregory Bufkin, 43 was caught, he’d broken into at lea...
Read MoreAway from home: Indian boarding schools leave lasting legacy
Published: 2022-10-12 13:48:12Mary Smith Sneed was just four or five years old the day a wagon rolled up as she played outside near the family home at Mingo Falls. The wagon stopped, and a Cherokee man named John Crowe greeted her. Crowe, who also happened to be a truant officer empl...
Read MoreFive vie for three seats on Haywood Commission
Published: 2022-09-28 13:42:57Three incumbents, along with two challengers, are all running for the Haywood County Board of Commissioners this year, and there isn’t enough room for all of them. Voters can select up to three candidates and in doing so will determine whether or not t...
Read MoreSilent no more: Native communities call for end to crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women
Published: 2022-06-29 14:02:01M aggie Calhoun Bowman’s family has spent the last 17 years making peace with the fact that they will never know how she ended up dead in a rain gully, covered over with leaves and a pink coat. . Bowman didn’t really have a home. Recently divorced, s...
Read MoreMCSO affidavits offer strange and heinous details of alleged kidnapping, homicide
Published: 2022-06-20 19:38:52A man currently in jail on charges of kidnapping and assault may soon be charged with murder if search warrants related to the case are any indication. . Probable cause affidavits for the warrants, signed by several different judges on different dates ov...
Read MoreMacon commissioner candidates discuss education, broadband
Published: 2022-05-04 12:44:59Several problems and opportunities await Macon County’s next board of commissioners. . From the backlog of essential capital projects to a push for increased access to broadband internet, whoever is elected will have to prioritize between the county’...
Read MoreFive Republicans vie to become Macon’s next sheriff
Published: 2022-04-27 13:19:05Among the sheriffs retiring in Western North Carolina who will leave big shoes to fill is Macon County’s Robert Holland, who has served in that position for almost two decades. . The candidates to replace Holland bring a variety of experience. Of those...
Read MoreInvestigators say victim safety is top priority
Published: 2022-03-16 13:21:40In Suzie Pressley’s 11 years on the job, she’s seen the agony people face trying to leave an abusive relationship and the freedom they feel when it happens. . For the last 11 years, Pressley has been Haywood County’s domestic violence advocate, a j...
Read MoreUp to the fight: Cherokee’s new police chief aims for big changes
Published: 2022-03-16 13:12:54Josh Taylor is seven months into his job as chief of the Cherokee Indian Police Department. Asked how it’s going, he pauses, clasps his hands together atop the table, and leans forward. . “It’s been a fight, ma’am,” he says. As a former U.S. Ai...
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