Whitesburg, KY

PDF of print edition      BURGLARY AT MAYKING - A Jenkins City Police cruiser sat in front of the Dollar General Store at Mayking early Tuesday morning after a break-in was reported. Jenkins officer Anthony Maggard stood guard at the store through the early morning hours after the front door was damaged and could not be loc... More ... Letcher miner dies after rock truck accident       Kentucky suffered its first mine fatality of 2008 this week when a Letcher County man was killed early Tuesday when he was thrown from a rock truck he was driving. Roy Douglas Sturgill II, 29, of Cowan, died of injuries he received when the truck he was driving backed over a steep embankment at C... More ... As many as 12% of Letcher residents may have diabetes Officials meet in Lexington to discuss threat of disease By BEN GISH       Thousands of Kentuckians are in danger of literally eating and lounging themselves to death. That was the message delivered Monday by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other public officials and health-care professionals attending the Kentucky Diabetes Solutions Summit in Lexington. More ... Scholarship will target 6th-grade students       A Whitesburg woman has given more than $50,000 to help fund a college scholarship program that will target sixth-grade students who show academic progress. Pauline (Penny) Ritter Combs made the gift to Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College in December. More ...