PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — Dr. Samuel Todd Brand, who has been serving as interim president of Big Sandy Community and Technical College for the past year, has been given the position on a permanent basis. Kentucky Community and Technical College System President Ryan Quarles announced the change, effective…
Read MoreLENORE, W.Va. — U.S. Senator and two-time presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been holding events across the country to rally against President Donald Trump’s agenda. Now, that tour will wind its way through Mingo County. Sanders will bring his “Fighting Oligarchy Tour”…
Read MoreEMMALENA, Ky. – Police are investigating after an 11-year-old boy was killed in an ATV crash Wednesday in Knott County. Just before 2:30 Wednesday afternoon, Kentucky State Police Post 13 in Hazard responded to a 911 call reporting a fatal ATV accident on a surface mine road located off Sylvester…
Read MoreABINGDON, Va. — A former Norton City Schools teacher living Letcher County been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for trafficking large amounts of meth and fentanyl into Southwest Virginia. Andora Lee Smith, 62, of Whitesburg pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to distribute over…
Read MoreMany showed up to celebrate the first step taken for the new Floyd County Animal Shelter, as ground was broken on Thursday, July 24, 2025.
Read MorePike Sheriff Rodney Scott addresses that the county has the largest incidents of copper theft across the commonwealth.
Read MorePIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Johnson County woman will spend nearly five years in prison, after pleading guilty to a federal drug charge. Tiffany Nichole Blanton, 34, of Oil Springs, pleaded guilty in April to a single count of possession of meth with the intent to distribute. She was arrested last August,…
Read MoreCOLSON, Ky. — A Letcher County man faces numerous felony charges after police conducted a search at his home. The Kentucky State Police Drug Enforcement Special Investigations Unit went to the home of Billy Sturgill, 59, of Colson, with a search warrant, where they found what they described as…
Read MoreIVEL, Ky. — A Floyd County man faces felony charges, after his wife showed up at a hospital with numerous injuries, saying he had attacked her. Police were called Thursday to a domestic assault complaint at Highlands ARH. There, the woman told them that her husband — James Chadrick Burchett,…
Read MoreJEREMIAH, Ky. — Kentucky State Police is investigating, following an officer-involved shooting in Letcher County over the weekend. Just after 7:30 p.m. Saturday, a state trooper and a sheriff’s deputy responded to a report of a domestic dispute involving gunfire at a home along Route 160. Police…
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