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Mountain Top Media10m ago

WEST LIBERTY, Ky. -- An investigation into illegal drug activity inside an Eastern Kentucky prison has resulted in the arrest of five people. Kentucky State Police and the Gateway Area Drug Task Force responded to a request to investigate from the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex in West Liberty. That investigation resulted in indictments being returned against two former correctional officer

Mountain Top Media39m ago

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Johns Creek Archery Team walked away with some bragging rights following the National Archery in the Schools Program state tournament this past Friday. Team member Blake Mullins delivered an outstanding performance, shooting an impressive score of 274 out of a possible 300. Of the 1,585 middle school partipants, Mullins finished in 102-place. While his score fell just short o

WTVQ ABC 361h ago

EDDYVILLE, Ky. (ABC36 News Now) — A caseworker at the Kentucky State Penitentiary has been arrested after security footage allegedly captured her having a sexual encounter with an inmate, according to Kentucky State Police. KSP detailed that 26-year-old Alysta Mathis of Dawson Springs was arrested and charged with third-degree rape and third-degree sodomy. She was transported to the Crittenden Cou

WTVQ ABC 361h ago

LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC36 News Now) — The Lexington Police Department is temporarily suspending the taking of reports for minor, non-injury collisions due to high call volume in Fayette County amid the winter weather. The suspension took effect today at 8:45 a.m, police added. Motorists involved in a collision where no one is injured and vehicles are not disabled are asked...

Mountain Top Media1h ago

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky men’s basketball senior guard Otega Oweh was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches Central District Second Team, the organization announced on Tuesday. It marks the second-consecutive season that the Wildcat star has received all-district honors from the NABC, after being named a first-team selection a year ago. Oweh leads the Wildcats with 18.2 points p

WTVQ ABC 361h ago

FAYETTE COUNTY, Ky. (ABC36 News Now) — Fayette County Public Schools announced that Tuesday, March 17, will be an NTI Day due to the weather conditions. District Spokesperson Miranda Scully released a statement regarding the decision to use an NTI with short notice: We recognize that the timing of this morning’s announcement did not meet our typical standards for notification,...

Mountain Top Media1h ago

by CHRIS COMBS COLUMBUS, Ohio – For the 21st time in program history, the West Virginia University rifle team won the NCAA Rifle National Championship after two days of competition inside the Covelli Center in Columbus on Saturday. The win marks the second straight title for the Mountaineers and the second straight season WVU has come from behind to claim it. This season, the Mountaineers came bac

Kentucky Lantern6h ago

FRANKFORT — Kentucky's television airwaves are so loud with ads advocating the election of Andy Barr and Nate Morris to the U.S. Senate because Barr and Morris each have access to nearly all the money they want. Barr has been elected seven times as representative to the U.S. House for Kentucky's 6th District. He's well [...]

Kentucky Lantern7h ago

During this Women’s History Month, in the United States’ 250th anniversary year, it’s worth remembering and celebrating some courageous women who changed Kentucky for the better. Nonhelema Hokolesqua was a prominent Shawnee leader born around 1718. Her height and presence made her well known, but her legacy came from her diplomacy. Although she lived primarily [...]

Kentucky Lantern14h ago

LOUISVILLE — Kentucky’s top three Republican U.S. Senate candidates largely agreed that illegal immigration is a major issue for Kentuckians, but they strongly disagreed about which of them would best handle it. The candidates — U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, former state Attorney General Daniel Cameron and businessman Nate Morris — faced each other in their first debate [...]

WTVQ ABC 3614h ago

WHITLEY COUNTY, Ky. (ABC36 News Now) — A section of I-75 northbound in Whitley County has reopened following an afternoon injury collision involving 16 vehicles. According to Kentucky State Police, the collision left all lanes of the interstate between Exit 25 and 29 shut down for a period of time Monday afternoon. KSP, alongside the Corbin Police Department, Corbin Fire...

WTVQ ABC 3618h ago

LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) - A suspect is in custody after a standoff at a home in Winchester. According to police, the situation began just before 8 p.m. Sunday at a residence on Orchid Court. Investigators say the suspect refused to leave the home and barricaded himself inside after Clark County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a domestic violence call....

WTVQ ABC 3619h ago

(ABC36 News Now) — Jonah Bevin, the adopted son of former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin, has filed an emergency motion for contempt against Matt, accusing him of repeatedly violating a Jefferson Circuit Court order requiring complete financial disclosures in an ongoing family court case. The motion, filed March 13, in Jefferson Circuit Court Family Court Division One, asks the court...

Mountain Top Media20h ago

EASTERN, Ky. - Floyd County Central's Whitley Hall signed this past week to play softball at the college level for Crestview Hills' Thomas More Saints. Hall was a double threat by her junior year, batting .358 at the plate with 31 hits and 34 RBIs while tallying 94 strikeouts on the mound, building on that during her standout senior year at the school. In addition to season stats, Hall also hold s

Mountain Top Media21h ago

PIKEVILLE, Ky. - It's a name right out of a Hollywood baseball movie - Bash Ryan. The Pikeville Panthers are set to have another good season behind their senior standout, right-handed pitcher and shortstop Bash Ryan. Bash has been a name people around the region have heard for years. He has been playing baseball at an elite level since he was just a kid, being named a USSSA 11U All-American. Bash

Harlan Enterprise22h ago

LEXINGTON, Ky. (KT) - The Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority (KNEDA), at the University of Kentucky's Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER), announced the first recipients of the Kentucky [...]

Harlan Enterprise22h ago

FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) - Fighting in the Middle East continues to impact gas prices, according to Gas Buddy, a crowd-sourced app and website that tracks the price at the pump [...]

Mountain Top Media22h ago

RICHMOND, Va. -- Recreational marijuana sales are expected to soon be legal just across the state line from Pike County, as the Virginia legislature passed a framework for retail sales on Saturday. Gov. Abigail Spanbarger has previously said she will sign the bill. Once signed, the new law will allow anyone 21 or older to buy cannabis from a licensed establishment, beginning Jan. 1. The number of

Mountain Top Media22h ago

MOREHEAD, Ky. -- Morehead State's 2025-26 women's basketball season will continue in the postseason as the Eagles have been selected as one of the at-large berths in the WNIT. Head Coach Ashton Feldhaus has led the Eagles to a postseason opportunity in her first season leading the program, and it will mark the program's third overall appearance in the Postseason WNIT. The last time was in 2018-19

Harlan EnterpriseMar 16

This might be one of the most unpopular articles of all time, but as I sit here wanting to express from my heart, my private burdens are being exposed. I [...]

Kentucky LanternMar 16

ELIZABETHTOWN — The Bruin Relays at Central Hardin High School give athletes a chance to prepare for the spring season while also having a little fun with unsanctioned events like the “chocolate milk run” in which runners chug glasses of chocolate milk while racing around the track. This year’s event was notably different. Beneath the [...]

Kentucky LanternMar 16

Lawyers for Jonah Bevin, the estranged, adopted son of former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, have asked a judge to hold the father in contempt of court for ignoring a court order to turn over his personal financial information. The filing Friday came after a family court judge last week ordered Matt Bevin and his ex-wife, [...]

Salyersville IndependentMar 13

SALYERSVILLE – The city has finally turned in the 2023 audit and is now in compliance with the Department of Local Government for state funding. Last week the City of Salyersville received their 2023 audit report and the Department of Local Government confirmed for the SI that they have now received the audit. As of [...]

Salyersville IndependentMar 13

JOHNSON COUNTY – A Magoffin County man was killed in a one-vehicle wreck in Johnson County on March 5. A commercial vehicle, owned by Jackson Propane Plus and operated by Allen Skaggs, 49, of Salyersville, reportedly left the roadway and Skaggs lost control of the vehicle. Johnson County Sheriff Scott Hazlette told Mortimer Media Group [...]

Salyersville IndependentMar 13

SALYERSVILLE – The Magoffin County Animal Shelter has had a lot going on as of late, with donations, fundraisers and lots of new, lovable faces ready for their forever homes. The Magoffin County Animal Shelter sent in a video to Mortimer Media Group last week, with volunteer Melinda Watson discussing everything going on at the [...]

Salyersville IndependentMar 13

SALYERSVILLE — Longtime leader Walker Russell led Magoffin County in both scoring and rebounding for the second straight boys’ high school basketball season. As a senior, Russell averaged a team-high 21.5 points and 8.0 rebounds per game for the Hornets. In 32 games, Russell scored 687 points and claimed 255 rebounds for the Hornets. Russell [...]

Salyersville IndependentMar 13

SALYERSVILLE — Herald Whitaker Middle School hosted the final Magoffin County archery tournament of the 2025-26 season on Saturday, March 7. Several area teams competed in the tournament. During the tournament, Herald Whitaker Middle School and Magoffin County High School each placed third. A breakdown of Magoffin County’s top individual performers in the tournament for [...]

Appalachian News-ExpressMar 12

Experienced or retired business owners and managers with a desire to see the economy of Central Appalachia grow are invited to attend a forum at Bit Source on Hambley Boulevard in Pikeville at 6 p.m. on March 24, according to a statement from Bit Source.

Appalachian News-ExpressMar 11

The University of Pikeville Center for Public Service announced in a statement March 6 the second year of the Allegheny Civic Fellowship, a three-week non-residential summer camp dedicated to cultivating future citizens in Eastern Kentucky.

Mountain EagleMar 11

It was a horrible thing to wake up to. Grover Mark Tussey was eight years old, still asleep with his mother, when someone started banging on the door. It was March 12, 1976, the morning after a second explosion ripped through the Scotia Mine at Oven Fork, adding another 11 men to the death toll. Tussey’s father, Grover Tussey, was [...] The post 50 years later, Scotia mine disaster still haunts fa

Mountain EagleMar 11

A federal judge has ordered both the plaintiff and defendants to pay the costs for a jury that was impaneled to hear the lawsuit against the Letcher County Sheriff ’s Office and former bailiff Ben Fields, after the suit was settled at the last minute, after the jury arrived at the Federal Courthouse in London. U.S. District Judge Robert E. [...] The post Insurance to pay $300,000 in costs for sher

Mountain EagleMar 11

The judge in the murder trial of former sheriff Shawn Mickey Stines says he never had any kind of interactions with the late Judge Kevin R. Mullins, and that characterizations otherwise are wrong. Special Letcher Circuit Judge Christopher Cohron issued the 13-page order on March 6, saying the accusation of bias contained in a motion for him to be recused [...] The post Judge says he had no contact

Mountain EagleMar 11

The Letcher County Central High School Lady Cougars have earned another trip to the Girls’ Sweet Sixteen state basketball tournament at Rupp Arena in Lexington. The Lady Cougars, runners-up in the 53rd District, defeated Knott County Central 43-37 Saturday night to win the 14th Region Tournament, which was held in Hindman. Letcher Central is scheduled to open Sweet Sixteen play [...] The post Lady

Mountain EagleMar 11

With the way she plays, Clara Strack is going to win awards. Kentucky coach Kenny Brooks believes his 6-foot-5 junior is the nation’s best center, and she has the numbers to back up her coach’s belief. “Obviously, you want to be the best you can be and live up to your potential, but awards are never on my mind,” Strack [...] The post Clara Strack is a star first appeared on The Mountain Eagle .

Mountain EagleMar 11

It is starting to look and feel more like early spring. We drove by Carr Creek Lake today and saw quite a few boats out on the water. We also noticed several boats on the road being pulled toward the lake. It’s safe to say a lot of anglers are getting out for some early spring bass fishing. I love [...] The post Jigs can be key to early spring bass fishing success first appeared on The Mountain Ea

Mountain EagleMar 11

The year was 2001, and turkey season was in full swing. I had been hearing gobbling behind my house and planned to go hunting the next morning from a blind I had built years before. Sharon told me snow was on the way, but that didn’t concern me much. I had installed a Mr. Buddy heater in the blind so [...] The post A costly lesson after leaving decoys outside overnight first appeared on The Mounta

Mountain EagleMar 11

Hello from good ole Hemphill. This weather is just grand and makes us feel better too. Flowers are blooming and trees are budding out. The Internet has been out all over the community. The old Gibson building across from the Fleming-Neon Middle School burned today. It has knocked the Internet out till you cannot make a card purchase in Neon [...] The post The old Gibson bldg. fire leads to Interne

Appalachian News-ExpressMar 10

Joseph Souza, MD, a cardiac electrophysiologist at Pikeville Medical Center, successfully performed Eastern Kentucky’s first implantation of the innovative Medtronic OmniaSecure; the world’s smallest defibrillator lead designed to treat dangerous heart rhythm disorders, according