McDOWELL, Ky. — After an earlier request for a rate increase was shot down, Southern Water and Sewer District in Floyd County is trying again. Southern originally filed its application back in September, asking the Kentucky Public Service Commission to approve rates that were more than 28 percent…
Read MorePIKEVILLE, Ky. — An investigation into cockfighting operations in two Eastern Kentucky counties has now wrapped up, after the final defendants in the case entered guilty pleas this month. Investigations into the Blackberry Chicken Pit in Pike County and the Whitesburg Chicken Pit in Letcher County…
Read MoreBEARVILLE, Ky. — A Knott County man was killed Thursday in a single-vehicle crash on Route 80. According to Kentucky State Police, William T. Campbell was driving a Chevy Silverado east on the highway Thursday night, when he veered over the median, crossed both oncoming lanes and struck a rock…
Read MoreABINGDON, Va. — A southwestern Virginia doctor has been convicted of improperly prescribing opioid medications a second time, after his first conviction was overturned due to one word in the jury instructions. Joel Smithers, 42, a former osteopathic doctor in Martinsville, was convicted by a federal…
Read MorePIKEVILLE, Ky. — Due to unfavorable weather conditions forecast for this weekend, the City of Pikeville has made the decision to postpone its highly anticipated fireworks display and first-ever drone show that was set to take place on Saturday, Dec. 28, at the Hambley Athletic Complex. The event…
Read MorePIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Georgia man is facing a federal indictment for allegedly distributing meth and fentanyl in several Eastern Kentucky counties. Dennis Arnold “Dino” Lyons, 35, of Rex, Ga., is charged with two counts of distributing meth, one count of distributing a meth and fentanyl…
Read MoreCOAL RUN VILLAGE, Ky. — A Johnson County woman was arrested for writing thousands of dollars’ worth of bad checks to a Pike County business, but it took several tries for police to confirm her identity. State troopers were called to Rural King in Coal Run Village, after staff reported that…
Read MorePIKEVILLE, Ky. — A man wanted in a number of cases in Pike and Floyd counties was arrested on Thursday. Jeremy James Petersen, 37, of Teaberry, is accused breaking into the Walters Mazda lot on Nov. 10th and taking a 2020 Toyota Camry. He is also accused of stealing a four-wheeler from the lot…
Read MorePIKEVILLE, 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…
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