News Staff A Swain County man has been arrested on murder charges eight months after a wreck in Jackson County took two lives. Jacob Neal Wilnoty, 27, of Cherokee is facing two felony counts of second-degree murder in the death of a 29-year old mother and her 5-year-old daughter who were passengers in his vehicle, who were … Read more
A Sylva man was one of 25 suspects charged in a 2020 drug trafficking investigation. Warren Ryan Muster, 27, was taken into custody Sunday following a yearlong multi agency undercover drug and weapons operation in and around Buncombe, Jackson and Haywood counties, in which police seized methamphetamine, more than a dozen illegal firearms and ammunition, … Read more
Search efforts continued over the weekend as crews tried to locate the last remaining person still unaccounted for following Tropical Storm Fred. Five individuals, all Cruso residents, have been confirmed dead and families notified. MEANWHILE… Verizon and AT&T Cellular services in the affected areas have now been restored. Power is back on for 95 percent … Read more
Between Wednesday and Thursday Over 200 search and rescue missions were accomplished by hundreds of Swift Water rescue and fire departments from all over the state of North Carolina, with 2 confirmed fatalities so far in the search process. Around 20 people are still missing as of Thursday evening. Rescue efforts continue from multiple agencies. … Read more
Some Jackson County residents struggling to pay rent during the pandemic are getting a helping hand. The CDC has issued a new moratorium on evictions throughout the country and tenants can not be thrown out for nonpayment of rent, Pisgah Legal Services’ Homelessness Prevention Program staff said. The CDC’s previous moratorium lapsed July 31, leaving … Read more
A Swain County man has been arrested on murder charges eight months after a wreck in Jackson County took two lives. Jacob Neal Wilnoty, 27, of Cherokee is facing two felony counts of second-degree murder in the death of a 29-year old mother and her 5-year-old daughter who were passengers in his vehicle, who were … Read more
A Sylva man was one of 25 suspects charged in a 2020 drug trafficking investigation. Warren Ryan Muster, 27, was taken into custody Sunday following a yearlong multi agency undercover drug and weapons operation in and around Buncombe, Jackson and Haywood counties, in which police seized methamphetamine, more than a dozen illegal firearms and ammunition, … Read more
A SC home health aid has been apprehended at a Jackson County hospital in connection to the disappearance of a 70-year-old woman. Elizabeth Catherine Carserino, 53, was arrested on Aug. 7, two weeks after Lynn Gay Keene was reported missing by family members. Carserino was the eldery womans live-in caretaker. While searching the home, investigators … Read more
The new Health Sciences Center at Southwestern Community College received its Certificate of Occupancy last week. Crews scrambled to get all the new state-of-the-art medical equipment for the labs and classrooms installed in time for the students first day of classes this week [August 16]. The new 55,411 square feet facility will be home to … Read more
HISTORIC FLOODS IN HAYWOOD COUNTY HAVE LEFT UP TO 30 INDIVIDUALS UNACCOUNTED FOR AFTER TUESDAY’S DEVISTATING RAINS FROM TROPICAL STORM FRED. IN A WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON PRESS CONFRENCE, HAYWOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES DIRECTOR TRAVIS DONALDSON STATED THAT THE PIGEON RIVER PEAKED AT 19.6 FEET WHICH EXEEDED THE 2004 HISTORIC FLOOD. ONGOING SEARCH AND RESCUE EFFORTS CONTINUED … Read more