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Silent 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...
Read MoreProtect and serve: Sylva Police Department pilots social work program
Published: 2022-01-12 15:14:31On May 25, 2020, the world watched as 46-year-old George Floyd died slowly beneath the knee of a Minnesota police officer — and it continued to watch as an aftermath erupted spanning the gamut from full-on riots to thoughtful discussions about how to m...
Read MoreIncarcerated at Christmas: Swain inmates thankful for family visitations
Published: 2021-12-22 14:47:59Swain County Detention Center became a place of reunions and redemption during the last few weeks as inmates had their first chance in over two years to see their family members face to face. . A grandmother was reunited with her daughter and her three g...
Read MoreMovement to memorialize lynching victim in Franklin gains momentum
Published: 2021-11-12 15:07:36E xactly 123 years to the day after a Black man was dragged from his cell in Franklin and hung from a bridge at the edge of town, a group of activists took the first step in attempting to reckon with Macon County’s most infamous lynching. . “We are h...
Read More‘We are the medicine’: Nonprofit uses community connection to combat addiction
Published: 2021-10-27 13:59:08A new nonprofit expanding its services into Haywood County is challenging the status quo when it comes to overcoming addiction. . Seek Healing began in Asheville three years ago, but recent grant support has allowed the organization to open an office in ...
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