District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch said a Franklin man will serve life in prison after admitting today in Macon County Superior Court to killing his infant son. Jesse Wilson, 26, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in […]
Debbie Welch of Western North Carolina has been chosen Big Sister of the Year (2022) by Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Carolina, celebrating National Volunteer Week April 17-23 like many nonprofit organizations in the […]
District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch said a key figure in Operation Jawbreaker, a sweep two years ago of suspected local drug dealers acting in concert on a two-state level, was arrested Tuesday and charged with […]
Paul Snow pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a Macon County courtroom to the Nov. 6, 2016, shooting deaths of his mother and sister, District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch said. The 54-year old’s admissions he killed […]
District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch announced Wednesday that Michael Macht has joined the 43rd Prosecutorial District as an Assistant District Attorney. Based in Haywood County, Macht will work districtwide – across the seven westernmost counties […]
District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch’s office secured the conviction today of an Otto man who played a key role in a large-scale methamphetamine operation to ferry drugs from Atlanta, Georgia into Macon County. Kenneth Wayne […]
Trials of those arrested in Operation JAWbreaker are underway in Macon County and will continue in the months to come. Several of the 25 suspects nabbed back in April 2018 have seen their day in […]