The McDowell County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the discovery of a dead man near Old Fort and continues to look into an unrelated shooting incident that happened north of Marion.
An inmate with the N.C. Department of Corrections who escaped from the Marion Correctional Institution in McDowell County has been caught in Buncombe County.
Law enforcement officers are searching in Asheville for a N.C. Department of Corrections inmate who walked away from a worksite off Old Glenwood Road near Marion.