The Mountain Eagle

| February 13, 2019

Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines, seen above counting out $3,000 in cash confiscated during a...

Most people to get food stamps early at least once more

| February 13, 2019

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits issued early for February because of the partial government...

Council addresses signs, meters

By WILLIAM FARLEY | February 13, 2019

The Whitesburg City Council this week conducted the first two readings of a new ordinance...

Man pleads guilty in largest meth raid

By SAM ADAMS | February 13, 2019

A Bottom Fork man the Letcher County Sheriff’s Department arrested last year with nearly four...

Weather is blamed for unusually poor highway conditions

By SAM ADAMS | February 6, 2019

You hear it in the grocery store, the doctor’s office, in line at restaurants, and...

TVA wants to shutter coal plants in Ky., Tenn.

The Associated Press | February 13, 2019

PARADISE, Ky. A report by the Tennessee Valley Authority says it no longer makes sense to keep burning coal at...

Men wearing blackface is part of county’s history

By BEN GISH | February 13, 2019

With all the controversy taking place in neighboring Virginia over current Gov. Ralph Northam wearing blackface in a photograph in...

Big raffle to feature UK basketball tickets

By ROGER L. HALL | February 13, 2019

The Neon Lions Club met this week on February 5. It was a warm day, as the temperature jumped all...

Bill would provide firefighters with Hepatitis A vaccine

| February 13, 2019

Senator Johnny Ray Turner, D-Prestonsburg, has filed legislation to protect Kentucky firefighters by expanding its Hepatitis B continued inoculation voucher...

Hearings set for 4

| February 13, 2019

Prelminary hearings are set for February 14 for three of four suspects arrested in two separate meth cases last week....

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