Kentucky State Police Trooper Adam Hall watched as children he assisted chose presents during Kentucky State Police Post 13’s annual Shop with a Trooper event held at the Whitesburg Walmart on Dec. 6. More...
A U.S. District Court Judge in Pikeville has denied the motion of Arch Coal Inc. to dismiss a personal injury lawsuit filed by Letcher County coal miner Jarrod Sergent and his wife Linda. More...
As they opened up the Shaping Our Appalachian Region (SOAR) conference earlier this week, state and federal leaders echoed the same sentiment: The road to economic success and growth for eastern Kentucky will be a long one and will take the erasure o More...
The Little Shepherd Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation will hold its annual Rabbit Hunt for Kids on Saturday, Dec. 28. The group will meet at Raymond Brown’s building just below the Dry Fork Gas Station at 6:30 a.m. More...
Drenda Crider, who has established a lengthy career in the hotel and leisure industry, has been chosen to lead several of the area’s notable tourist sites. More...
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) The arts are a strong part of the Arian aspect, with music becoming more dominant. An important decision looms as a longtime relationship takes an unexpected turn. More...
Triplets-and-more increasingly are the result of drugs given to women to make them produce eggs — not from using multiple embryos from IVF, or lab-dish fertilization, new research shows. More...
A health care call center is expanding its hours to sign up Kentuckians for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. The Lexington Herald- Leader reports the call center for Kentucky’s program, called Kynect, has added Sunday hou More...
In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients’ blood cells into soldiers that seek and destroy cancer. More...
A shooting match will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 15, at the American Legion. The match is sponsored by the Sons of the American Legion. For information, call 634-1459 or 633-2834. More...
A live Nativity scene will be presented at First Baptist Church of Whitesburg nightly from 6 to 8 p.m., December 19-22. Parking will be available. More...
The last of three suspects accused of murder, kidnapping and arson in the 2012 death of Dradrick “Drad” Fleming will be the first to stand trial in the death penalty case, Letcher Circuit Judge Sam Wright has ordered. More...
High water in city streets is once again a concern for the Fleming- Neon City Council, but this time the culprit is the heavy rains and snow that have fallen on Letcher County for the past few days. More...
We know that about 20,000 pseudo-, semi- and real journalists “cover” Washington. We know that mid-December is “slow time” in the nation’s capital as the public turns its attention to the holidays. More...
For more than three decades, working class Americans receded as cultural heroes, replaced in the popular imagination by swashbuckling entrepreneurs, brilliant innovators, and shrewd investors who make millions at the touch of a computer key. More...
While the national media gnashes its teeth about Kobe Bryant’s comeback, Robinson Cano’s bank roll, and Jameis Winston’s well-being (sniff ), let us visit the Department of Amazing: Bowling Green High’s football team won a thi More...
The Letcher County Central Cougars wrapped up the opening week of the season by splitting a pair of games at home — losing to Harlan County and then defeating Jackson City — before going on the road to Manchester last Friday night and los More...
The Letcher County Central Lady Cougars are spending much of the month of December playing on the road, but not by choice, said coach Dickie Adams. More...
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Hello everyone, hope you are all doing well and getting the spirit of Christmas and remember what it’s about. I think it’s gotten way out of proportion. Nowadays it seems to be all giving and getting. More...
Margie ‘Granny’ Sturgill, 91, of Dry Fork, died December 3 at Pikeville Medical Center. A daughter of the late Johnny and Sally Ann Maggard Boggs, she was the widow of Carl Sturgill. More...
Jerene Spangler, 83, of Nineveh, Ind., died December 2 at the Franklin United Methodist Home in Franklin, Ind. Formerly of Letcher County, she was the daughter of the late Jim and Mary Elizabeth Hart Haynes. More...
Funeral services for Juanita Grace Bevins, 66, of Neon, were held December 7 at Carty Funeral Home. Burial was in the Yonts Cemetery at Neon. A daughter of the late George and Gladys Juanita Baker Hall, she was born at Hogg Hollow, Neon. More...