Jackson County Sheriff Jimmy Ashe spent more than $1,000 in public money over three years to buy exposure on Who's Who lists, something the sheriff says he now regrets.

SYLVA — Most law enforcement officials get around town in a Dodge Charger or similar car.

Jackson County Sheriff Jimmy Ashe had a ride that carried a lot more chrome.

A ferocious blizzard, dubbed the "snowpocalypse" and "snowmageddon," descended on Washington yesterday, shutting federal offices early, closing schools, and sending residents scurrying to stock up on supplies to carry them through the weekend.

Virginia State Police say a man from Sylva, N.C., and his son have died after being hit by a tractor-trailer while trying to help a driver who wrecked in snow on Interstate 81.

New York City is expected to receive about 6 to 8 inches of snow. The region's second snow storm in less than two months could be "extremely dangerous," and heavy, wet snow and strong winds threatened to knock out power, the National Weather Service said.

The National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg has issued a winter storm watch for Madison, Haywood, Buncombe, Jackson, Macon, Transylvania, and Henderson counties, including the cities of Waynesville, Asheville, Sylva, Franklin, Brevard and Hendersonville, which is in effect from Thursday evening through Friday evening.

Nestled above the campus of Western Carolina University, the Jackson County Airport is a resource with tremendous potential economic benefits and implications for Jackson County citizens.

Here we go again, on a familiar path. As much as a foot of snow could fall on Western North Carolina on Friday and Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.

William Maney, owner of Fantasy Travel in Sylva, allegedly defrauded an elderly woman from Franklin out of $7,000 last year by stealing her credit card and using it to purchase airline tickets for other clients, according to charges filed by the Sylva Police Department.

Title: Laura Reigns Supreme in the Kitchen at Hotel Carolina, Sylva, N.C. "She Eats Her Own Cooking." Chas.

BalsamWest FiberNET, a fiber optic broadband company based in Sylva, N.C., picked Opticon NMS because of its advanced fault-detection, Geographic Information System or application integration and ease of implementation through INFRAX's. For INFRAX Systems, BalsamWest FiberNET is their first customer under their new identity, INFRAX Systems.

A Cherokee man will spend six months in prison for selling 51 bear gall bladders.

North Carolina's forestry industry, the top manufacturing sector in the state, has shed thousands of jobs while some in the industry are faced with less work, according to the state Forestry Association.

Published: Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 10:48 p.m. Judy Revis fought tears as she talked about Haiti and the earthquake that killed thousands of people and wrecked the capital's infrastructure Tuesday.

After examining autopsy slides of Western Carolina football player Ja'Quayvin Smalls, a district medical examiner in Florida said he believes the primary cause of Smalls' death was exertional sickling.

Western North Carolina's highways have pockets of icy and snow stretches, and it's especially bad in the far western counties, the N.C. Highway Patrol reports.

This event is being held to help Baby Nora a 15 month medically fragile foster child with short gut syndrome.

The smell of newly laid carpet and freshly painted walls greeted Demita Wilder as she walked into her new home on Bartlett Street on Thursday.

13 at Southwestern Community College in Sylva. Public hearings allow the agency to inform the public and interested parties about proposed regulations that affect them and to receive their input.

Southwestern Community College's Heritage Arts Institute announces their winter and spring offerings in pottery classes.