PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Two Alabama men who were arrested months apart on drug charges while driving the same car are now facing federal charges together. Frederick Daniel Holt Jr., 50, of Gadsden, Ala., and Floyd Jenkins, 45, of Munford, Ala., were indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday. Holt…
Read MorePRESTONSBURG, Ky. — A Pike County man is in jail, after police found him with a variety of drugs during a traffic stop. A Prestonsburg Police officer pulled over a car on U.S. 23 in Prestonsburg. While talking to the driver, the officer noticed his passenger was visibly shaking and avoiding eye…
Read MoreTUTOR KEY, Ky. — A woman who was shot at in Pikeville over the weekend has now been arrested for her part in the matter. It all happened on Sunday at a home on Harold’s Branch. Police say Ariana Danielle Cook, 34, of Tutor Key, reportedly had a man drive her and her 3- and 6-year-old children…
Read MorePAINTSVILLE, Ky. — A Johnson County man is in jail on felony charges, after authorities were alerted to a theft in progress. Dispatchers received a report of a motion detector going off at the phone lines on top of Starfire Hill in Paintsville last Thursday night and sent a sheriff’s deputy…
Read MorePAINTSVILLE, Ky. — An Alabama man arrested in Johnson County earlier this month after police found meth and fentanyl in his car is now facing another charge, after police returned to his car for a more extensive search. Floyd Jenkins, 45, of Munford, Ala., was arrested Dec. 4, after police found…
Read MoreFRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Public Service Commission has scheduled a hearing in Big Sandy RECC’s request for a $3.4 million rate increase. Most of that increase would come from residential customers, who would see their monthly power bills rise 15 percent, or about $21, if the request…
Read MorePIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Pike County man is in jail, after police say he fired a gun at a woman who was fleeing his home. A woman called police Sunday evening to report that Kameron Hattaway, 24, had fired a gun at her as she drove away from his house. The woman and Hattaway told police different stories…
Read MoreSHELBY GAP, Ky. — A Logan County man accused of the brutal beating a woman was arrested by U.S. Marshals and Kentucky State Police after fleeing into Kentucky. Johnny Matthew Jones, 35, of Lake, W.Va., was taken into custody Friday afternoon at a home on Contrary Hollow at Shelby Gap. Jones is…
Read MoreBECKLEY, W.Va. — A Pike County travel nurse has pleaded guilty to a scheme to use patient health information to obtain drugs. Jacqueline Brewster, 54, of Belfry, pleaded guilty to federal charges of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and wrongful disclosure of patient health information.…
Read MoreSALYERSVILLE, Ky. — Two Magoffin County residents were arrested for drug trafficking, after police found them parked in the middle of a field. Deputies were called to Grape Creek, after a caller reported a suspicious vehicle parked in a field about 40 feet from the road with its hazard lights…
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