Around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, police say the suspect walked into a business in Barboursville, stole a woman’s keys out of her purse, and then used the keys to find and steal her vehicle in the parking lot.
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Residents can share their feedback on draft recommendations from the Mayor’s Task Force on Homelessness during an upcoming public input meeting.
A funeral service has been scheduled for George Zack, the former conductor and director of the Lexington Philharmonic.
A former Taylor County deputy was federally indicted on 10 counts of obtaining controlled substances by fraud, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Kori Partovi faces felony and misdemeanor charges after police said she posed as a St. Bernards Medical Center employee and collected prescription drugs.
Shannon Litton has a look at the top stories for Wednesday, August 5.
For many Tri-State residents, allergy season never really ends. Stuffy noses, sinus pressure, headaches and postnasal drip can make everyday life feel like a struggle.
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says a lane closure is scheduled on Richmond Road on Aug. 6.
Trends for showers or storms will be in the afternoon hours Wednesday, with a few heavy downpours and rumbles possible.
As I sit in the no-speaking dining room at the Abbey of Gethsemani next to the elevator, other attendees are arriving. I love to arrive early to start my time [...]
A sheriff’s deputy shot a suspect after police said he allegedly stole the deputy’s unattended personal car in St. Louis. The suspect suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (LEX NEWS) — A man wanted on multiple violent felony charges, including attempted murder and kidnapping, was arrested in Louisville after authorities say he fled Madison County and Lexington in an effort to evade law enforcement. According to the U.S. Marshals Service, fugitive task force members from the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky arrested Tyler Mack on...
No injuries were reported.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW via LEX NEWS) — Dementia affects more than memory. It can lead to changes in personality, mood and decision-making. And as the disease progresses, agitation can become one of its most troubling symptoms. Jamie Cody, director of specialty programs at Bluegrass Care Navigators, said the condition is widely misunderstood. "A lot of times we...
A new pavilion for the Whitesburg/Letcher County Farmer’s Market is taking shape in downtown Whitesburg on the site of the original Farmer’s Supply Co., which was relocated to West Whitesburg in the 1970s to make way for the Whitesburg bypass. Plans call for the completed pavilion to include 30 vendor bays and a covered 20-by-20-foot stage. The project is being [...] The post From Farmer’s Supply
A Jenkins City Council member says he knew nothing about the possibility of a data center being built on the Gateway Business Park until the land option purchased by “Project Maverick” was made public. Councilman Shaun Collier brought up the issue Monday night at a meeting of the Jenkins City Council after backlash from the public about the possibility. “I [...] The post Jenkins officials say they
Three Letcher County residents have been indicted in Letcher Circuit Court in separate cases involving drug possession, an alleged assault on a police officer, and a rollover crash. Angela Mullins, 42, of 235 Grays Branch Road, Jenkins, is charged with first-degree possession of a controlled substance involving methamphetamine, first offense; possession of drug paraphernalia; third-degree assault
Preliminary plans for the Daniel Boone Hotel in Whitesburg have been submitted to the city and are now in the process of being revised, Mayor Tiffany Craft said. Joseph and Joseph Architects, the firm selected for the second phase of the project, has asked for the first payment of $164,931.75, and the Letcher County Fiscal Court, which is acting as [...] The post City officials reviewing prelimina
When asked about the best shooters on this year’s Kentucky basketball team, freshman guard Zyon Hawthorne immediately mentioned Iowa State transfer Milan Momcilovic — the nation’s leading 3-point shooter last season. He also noted that any time junior Trent Noah shoots, “I’m thinking it is going in,” based on what he has seen in practice. Junior Kam Williams is injured [...] The post N’Diaye could
Struttin’ Time readers have joined me during the past few weeks as we traveled down memory lane with my friends Misty Rogers Combs and her mother, Gloria Rogers, both of Whitesburg. They have shared memories of Jack Rogers and of the wonderful man he was — a man who loved God, his family and fishing. This is the final installment, [...] The post A final tribute to Jack Rogers first appeared on The
We are in the dog days of summer. The days are hot, and the humidity is high. For most people, that makes it difficult to get outside to fish or do other things on the lake. I cannot take hot weather myself and much prefer milder, cooler temperatures. Fishing has been good, and we have caught a lot of fish [...] The post Night fishing is a great way to beat ‘dog days’ first appeared on The Mountai
Seen in these two photographs are a mosaic mural project which reflects the 1,000-year flood of July 28, 2022, and the history of our region. Located in downtown Whitesburg behind the old post office, it is a project of the Cowan Community Action Group at the Cowan Community Center and mainly consists of both things broken by the flood as [...] The post Flood of July 2022 being remembered through
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In the late summer of 1974 somebody set fire to the Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg. The blaze took the offices, the files, the bound archives — most of the institutional memory of Letcher County that Tom and Pat Gish had been accumulating since they bought the paper in 1956 and changed its masthead from “A [...]
FRANKFORT - The state's documentary RISING, is now available for streaming on Prime Video, with proceeds going to the Team Kentucky Emergency Relief Fund, which assists Kentuckians affected by catastrophic [...]
FRANKFORT - Applications are now open for the 2026-2027 United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP), a merit-based program that takes the most outstanding high school students from around the country [...]
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (KT) - Educators in the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) seven-state region, which includes a good part of Kentucky, may apply for up to $5,000 in funding for STEM [...]
LONDON - A coordinated multi-agency emergency response led to the successful helicopter hoist rescue of an injured 18-year-old male hiker over the weekend near Laurel River Dam. According to Kentucky [...]
The mayor of Kentucky’s largest city is calling on city council members to pass a temporary ban or moratorium on data center construction within the city while the local government mulls over potential regulations restricting the siting and impacts of large data centers. In a Tuesday afternoon press conference, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said that [...]
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — The Georgetown Police Department is mourning the loss of Rocky, a retired K9 who served the agency from 2017 until his retirement in 2023. Rocky joined the department in 2017, beginning his career alongside his first handler, Lt. Mike Scott. The two spent four weeks training in Clair, Michigan, before going on to...
LONDON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) - The London City Council passed a two-year moratorium on new data centers during its meeting Monday night, along with a new emergency medical services agreement. Council members approved the second reading of Ordinance 2026-16, creating a moratorium on new data centers within the city. The ordinance prohibits new data centers through Sept. 30,...
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear joined a coalition of Democratic state officials in suing to block the Trump administration from getting access to sensitive data of families receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits. Filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., the lawsuit said that the Administration for Children and Families had issued a notice [...]
New research — which Kentucky participated in as a trial site — shows a combination of cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) can help late-stage dementia patients feel less agitation. Dr. Greg Jicha, the director of clinical trials at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, said this combination, given to patients all over the [...]
A construction contractor says a hyperscale data center developer asked him to continue to clear Bell County land where a data center is planned, despite a two-year temporary ban on data center construction passed by the county government. Lexington-based Murray Industries wants to use land with leftover electrical infrastructure for coal mining along the Bell-Knox [...]
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Lexington Herald-Leader. By the end of 2020, Kentucky’s newly elected Gov. Andy Beshear had one goal above all others: Keep people alive. The state was battling two merciless threats. COVID-19 was killing hundreds of people each month, and deadly drug overdoses were among [...]
I remember when I was around 10 years old, there was a girl at school who was a couple of years older than me who was constantly being teased and [...]
By Paul Lunsford Harlan Enterprise The Kentucky State Police at Post 13 in Hazard are investigating a motorcycle collision that has claimed the life of a Letcher County man. Troopers [...]
A Letcher County man died July 31 from injuries sustained two days earlier when his motorcycle left the roadway and struck a tree, Kentucky State Police said.
LONDON – A Martin County couple arrested in Magoffin earlier this month, along with another person, are now facing federal drug trafficking charges. On July 23, a federal grand jury in London indicted Jimmy E. Hall, Frankie Hall and Jimmy Blake Hall. Count 1 of the indictment alleges that beginning in March 2025 through July [...]
SALYERSVILLE – The Magoffin County Fiscal Court met in special session on Wednesday, July 22, in a meeting postponed from the day before due to severe weather in the forecast. The fiscal court approved the following fund transfers from the general fund: $25,000 to the jail fund, $56,000 to the road fund, $20,500 to 911, [...]
SALYERSVILLE – With budget cuts putting many of the senior center’s programs in jeopardy, a local city councilman is holding a fundraiser to help continue Meals on Wheels. Earlier this month Magoffin County Senior Citizens Center Director Marlene Howard announced that they had been notified that their budget had been cut $71,000. “We knew they [...]
JACKSON, Ky. – Drivers who use KY 1081 between Falcon and Wheelersburg in eastern Magoffin County should prepare to use an alternate route for the next 90 days, as a project to replace a concrete box culvert will begin on Wednesday, July 29. The project location is at milepoint 16.8, which is 0.5 miles northwest of KY 3334 and [...]
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Jessica F. Prater, principal of Herald Whitaker Middle School, was selected to attend the Kentucky Chamber Foundation’s Leadership Institute for School Principals program this year. Prater is one of 45 participants from across the Commonwealth chosen for this year-long, executive-level leadership training course, usually reserved for the nation’s top CEOs. Leadership Institute [..
During their July meeting, members of the Interim Joint Committee on Families and Children reviewed the most recent annual report compiled by the Child Fatality and Near Fatality External Review Panel. This panel was established in 2013 by the General Assembly to provide the comm
Morehead State University and the University of Pikeville's Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine announced in a statement July 30 that the schools have signed a memorandum of agreement creating a new early admission pathway that will provide qualified MSU students with a dire
Kentucky Power said in a statement July 23 it has signed the White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge, "reaffirming our commitment to Powering Fairness by protecting existing customers while supporting responsible economic growth."
"Rising," a documentary about the devastating flooding in Eastern Kentucky in 2022 produced by Gov. Andy Beshear's Team Kentucky, is now available for streaming on Amazon's Prime Video, according to a statement from Beshear’s office.
The Kentucky State Police honored 84 troopers, detectives and officers who went above and beyond the call of service in 2025, according to a statement issued July 26.
Though the majority of data centers are located in urban or suburban areas, rural communities face unique challenges in the data center development landscape. The post We Mapped Rural Data Center Development – and Opposition. Here’s What We Found appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia .
Throughout the Ohio River island’s history, flora and fauna have reacted and adjusted to human development like oil and gas wells. As humans abandoned the infrastructure, they've reclaimed their space. The post Muskingum: The End of an Island Refuge's Fossil Fuel Legacy appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia .