RALEIGH — North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey warns Medicare recipients to be on alert for scams. In the last few days, the NC Department of Insurance (NCDOI) had reports of phone calls with the Caller ID listed as “Senior Center,” but the number is unavailable. The callers are…
While it may seem that internet is universal, there are still areas of North Carolina that lack the infrastructure, called broadband, to support high-speed internet in addition to residents who lack the technology to use it.
With Medicaid transformation on pause until a state budget is passed by North Carolina legislature, Haywood County health officials said they expect the healthcare transition process to resume sometime in 2020.
RALEIGH — If they played football, they’d wear long, black jerseys, and their end zone would be a judicial bench.
RALEIGH — When her teenage son collapsed in a seizure, it hit High Point mother Kelly Kinard. Luka was addicted. He was vaping the equivalent of 80 cigarettes per day, and it took sending him to rehab in California to get him to stop.
Incumbent N.C. House Representative Joe Sam Queen (D-Waynesville) is running for re-election in 2020.
The Haywood County Board of Elections will hold two educational seminars about voter photo identification requirements.
Republican state lawmakers filed a bill Tuesday to expand health care coverage to low income North Carolinians, closing the health care coverage gap.
RALEIGH — A group of House Republicans is taking another whack at what they call an alternative to Medicaid expansion so uninsured North Carolina residents can obtain health coverage.
RALEIGH — A plan by State Treasurer Dale Folwell to reform the nearly insolvent State Health Plan faces legislative pushback, prodded by hospitals and large medical providers. Folwell has no plan to abandon the reforms, which actuaries say would prevent the plan from going broke within four years.
Crime
A 76-year-old Hyder Mountain man is dead, his son is wounded, and another son is charged in his father’s stabbing death and attempting to kill his brother.
A former Haywood County Sheriff’s Deputy charged in 2018 with several felonies related to the theft of evidence, including narcotics, will be spending at least the next seven years behind bars.
A Maggie Valley man is going to spend at least 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing his girlfriend’s daughter for well over a year.
A Haywood County man received a sentence of at least 94 months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of attempted statutory sex offense with a person under 15 years of age.
The first murder trial in Haywood County since 2013 was brought to an abrupt halt last week right in the middle of jury selection.
Waynesville Police confirmed earlier this week that the two deceased individuals found Wednesday died as the result of a murder-suicide.
At 7:02 a.m., Jan. 21, officers from the Waynesville Police Department were called to 136 Long St., in reference to two deceased individuals who were found at the location.
A Haywood County Sheriff’s deputy has resigned after being charged with a DWI.
A Marion man already facing a felony assault charge has been hit with another felony after breaking the overhead fire sprinkler in his cell.
One case that captured the county’s attention involved the horrific death of 10-month-old Chloe Evans.
It isn’t uncommon for local law enforcement to confiscate small amounts of drugs during arrests, but one methamphetamine bust this year proved to be bigger than the rest.
Many often complain about what they perceive as too many criminal cases getting dismissed by the district attorney’s office.
