CHEROKEE - Hundreds of whooping and hollering medical marijuana card-holders filtered into the Great Smoky Cannabis Co. here at 10 a.m. April 20, for the historic opening of the 10,000-square-foot ...

Welch is the chief criminal prosecutor in Prosecutorial District 43, which includes Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and Swain counties.

Allegations against sheriff In a petition filed in court, Welch says an enrolled member of the tribe filed a report with tribal police saying Cochran sexually assaulted her Sunday afternoon on the ...