PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Pike County man has apparently reached a plea deal in a federal child porn case. The attorney for Lonnie James Maynard, 54, of Raccoon, filed a motion Tuesday afternoon requesting that his client be allowed to change his plea. Maynard is charged with production and possession…
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Read MoreWHITESBURG, Ky. — We could soon know the results of a psychiatric evaluation of a former sheriff charged with murdering a district judge. Former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Mickey Stines is charged with murder for the shooting death of Letcher District Judge Kevin Mullins while the two men talked…
Read MorePIKEVILLE, Ky. — Three months after reaching a plea deal that saw a murder charge against him dropped, a former assistant Pike County attorney is asking to be released from jail. Donald Kyle Deskins, 56, of Kimper, is currently serving a five-year sentence in the Pike County Detention Center.…
Read MoreFRANKFORT, Ky. — Prosecutors have responded to a suspended Pike County judge’s motion to dismiss federal fraud charges against him, and, unsurprisingly, have reached a different conclusion. Pike Circuit Judge Howard Keith Hall was indicted back in April on two counts of mail fraud and one…
Read MoreABINGDON, Va. — A Wise County woman has been sentenced to time-served, after pleading guilty to federal drug charges. Brittany Chantae Rose, 38, of Pound, pleaded guilty in November to conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of meth and more than 40 grams of fentanyl. She admitted to working…
Read MoreTALCUM, Ky. — For the second time in a week, Kentucky State Police is investigating a fatal crash involving an off-road vehicle in Knott County. Police were called to a UTV crash on Starfire Haul Road, at Talcum. Preliminary reports say that Michael Miller, 43, of Vest, was operating a UTV when…
Read MoreFRANKFORT, Ky. — Six weeks after seeing their power bills rise 12.8 percent, customers of Big Sandy RECC, as well as other electric co-ops in the state, could get hit with another rate hike. That’s because East Kentucky Power Cooperative, which supplies electricity to the co-ops, is asking…
Read MoreHAZEL GREEN, Ky. — A Hazel Green man has been arrested after being accused of running a meth distribution operation across three Eastern Kentucky counties. Clyde Rudolph Endicott, 54, of Hazel Green, was arrested Wednesday by the Morgan and Wolfe County sheriff’s offices and Kentucky State…
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