UPDATE, May 15, 2023: Kentucky State Police reports that Tiffany Marie Tackett has been located alive and well. No additional information was provided. BEAVER, Ky. — Police are asking for the public’s help locating a woman who has been missing for nearly two weeks. Tiffany Marie Tackett,…
Read MoreLEXINGTON, Ky. — This Saturday, the University of Kentucky College of Medicine will be graduating its largest-ever class. Across all four sites of the UK College of Medicine — Lexington, Morehead, Bowling Green, and Northern Kentucky — a record-setting class of 190 medical students are set…
Read MoreOMAHA, Neb. — Rural West Virginia communities are struggling to recover from decades of disinvestment, and some are counting on the next Farm Bill to help propel rural policy reforms in agriculture and clean energy. The legislation, reauthorized every five years, affects farming, land conservation…
Read MoreNEW YORK, N.Y. — A New York jury has found former President Donald Trump civilly liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Because the verdict comes in a civil lawsuit, the former president will not face any jail time. However, he has been ordered to pay Carroll $5…
Read MoreMOORESBURG, Tenn. — A former principal of Pike County Central High School has been arrested in Tennessee on a charge related to drug trafficking. The Rogersville Review reports that Charles Edward “Eddie” McCoy and his wife, Rosalie Cole McCoy, were arrested May 3, following a drug…
Read MoreABINGDON, Va. — The final local defendant in a scheme to distribute fentanyl pills in southwestern Virginia, leading to at least two overdoses, has been sentenced. Cheyenne Cassie Perkins, 20, of Norton, had previously pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. On Monday,…
Read MorePIKEVILLE, Ky. — A West Virginia woman who was arrested in Pikeville for child abuse back in March has now been indicted. Diana Willis, 26, of Logan, has been charged with first-degree abuse of a child. Willis had taken her 4-year-old daughter to Pikeville Medical Center for a number of…
Read MorePIKEVILLE, Ky. — Community Trust Bancorp Vice Chairman, President and CEO Mark A. Gooch has announced that Brandi Kiser has been promoted to the position of Market Vice President, Branch Manager of Community Trust Bank, Inc. Kiser’s duties as Branch Manager include providing consumer, residential,…
Read MorePIKEVILLE, Ky. — The Pike County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help locating a man who has been missing for a week. Jarrod Edward Moon, 37, of Stone, was last heard from on May 1, when he sent a text message to a family member. He was believed to be traveling to Logan,…
Read MoreSALYERSVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky State Police roadblock set up on the Mountain Parkway in Magoffin County resulted in three people being arrested on drug trafficking charges in separate cases. The arrests include: Between the three arrests, police say they seized a pound of meth and six ounces of…
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