PIKEVILLE and PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — While candidates still have more than a month to file to run in next year’s election, the Pike County race for property valuation administrator has already been decided, and the same race in Floyd County will be over as soon as the incumbent files. Pike…
Read MoreLEXINGTON, Ky. — A Floyd County man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to federal drug and gun charges. Bradford Hunt, 51, of Hi Hat, pleaded guilty back in August to possession of controlled substances with the intent to distribute and using a firearm in a drug trafficking crime. Hunt was…
Read MorePIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Pike County man is scheduled to appear in court after being indicted on a federal child porn charge. Charles Michael Hopkins, 34, of Virgie, was indicted last week on a single count of possession of child porn. He was arrested last month, when police, acting on a tip from the…
Read MorePIKEVILLE, Ky. — Two juveniles suffered gunshot wounds, following a shooting Tuesday near Pikeville. Kentucky State Police responded to a 911 call reporting the shooting at Ray’s Branch, off of the Left Fork of Island Creek. When they arrived, they found the youths had been shot by another…
Read MoreFederal, state, local leaders were on hand to see 5.2 million in federal funding for water system improvements in Jenkins.
Read MoreSOUTH WILLIAMSON, Ky. — Kentucky State Police are looking for a man who they say dropped a handgun in the South Williamson Walmart causing it to discharge. KSP Post 9 Public Information Officer Trooper Michael Coleman said no one was injured, but that he had fielded some calls asking about an…
Read MoreAPPALACHIA, Va. — What began as a search for a missing Wise County high school football coach is now being termed a manhunt for a fugitive, as officials now say he is wanted on child pornography charges. Union High School Coach Travis Lee Turner, 46, was discovered missing when police went to…
Read MoreFRANKFORT, Ky. — East Kentucky Power Cooperative has reached a settlement with the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office to reduce the amount of the rate increase by about 20 percent from what the company had been seeking. East Kentucky Power Cooperative, which supplies power to electric co-ops…
Read MoreSOAR is hosting ‘Pizza and Pitch’, offering prizes for best business ideas.
Read MoreMain Street Pikeville will be offering incentives to get people shopping downtown.
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