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Plans are underway for a new Hurricane Middle School, and the architect and engineering company in charge provided the board a list of plans.
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It happened in the South Charleston area of Kanawha County.
Drivers adjust to changing road conditions as winter and spring weather collide.
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 [...]
EKCC contacted KSP in September 2025 leading to a joint investigation into suspected drug trafficking, money laundering, promoting contraband and organized criminal activity.
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...
The Robinson Family Farm said a dry season combined with high winds and a hard freeze led to an unexpected tulip crop failure.
Lexington Police say the snowfall and low temperatures are leading to traffic hazards.
A sanitary sewer construction project is set to begin in April along Tates Creek Road near the Gainesway area, with crews expected to work for approximately 18 months.
Corbin police issued a Green Alert for 49-year-old Ancil Christopher Malicoat. Police say Malicoat is a veteran.
As the final minutes ticked away in the West Virginia legislative session Saturday night, the House held a fiery debate over “Raylee’s Law,” a bill that supporters argue would protect children from abuse and neglect.
Taylor Eaton is in the WSAZ+ studio with the latest.
The Kentucky House voted on Monday to override Beshear's veto of House Bill 1, a bill that would allow students to receive tuition and other education assistant through privately funded scholarships.
Traffic is moving on Interstate 75 following a 16-vehicle crash, according to Corbin police.
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....
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) - The Boone County community is asking for public support to help cover funeral expenses for a young autistic girl who was found dead one day after she was reported missing in Northern Kentucky. According to a GoFundMe page, more than $10,000 has been raised so far to help pay for the funeral of 9-year-old...
Molly Svoboda remains in critical condition at the University of Kentucky Hospital after being struck by a Jessamine County Sheriff's deputy's vehicle on the night of March 7.
Months ago, about half of my neighbor’s tree fell in the night. I was unaware of what happened until the next morning. It landed right in the middle of the [...]
By Skylar Rutherford Teen Corner Could you envision humanity without the humanities? It’s a colorless, tragic world, yet one not far from reality. I have recently observed that our community [...]
A psychiatric nurse practitioner at Primary Care Centers of Eastern Kentucky says storm-related anxiety is common in the region.
(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...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) - Officials in Lexington have activated the city’s emergency winter weather plan to help people experiencing homelessness during expected extreme cold. The plan will be in effect beginning this evening and continuing through the morning of March 18. City officials say emergency shelters will expand capacity and relax some restrictions to accommodate more people duri
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) - A Franklin County judge has granted a temporary restraining order preventing Kentucky State Police from transferring investigation records related to the Doug Harless case to the City of London. The order was granted after the London city attorney and a Kentucky State Police representative did not appear in court for the scheduled hearing. The...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) - A 26-year-old woman has died after falling from a cliff in Hardin County. According to officials with West Hardin Fire and Rescue, crews were called Saturday evening to the area of Sonora Hardin Springs Road in Big Clifty for reports of a fall. When rescuers arrived, they determined the woman had fallen from a...
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
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) - A Laurel County man is in custody after authorities say a woman reported he held her against her will. According to the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to Delmas Gillam Road after a woman reported that 50-year-old Christopher Buttrey had allegedly fired shots inside her pickup truck and then got inside the vehicle...
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 is now entering h
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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
LONDON, Ky. -- A Letcher County podcaster who is suing the Jenkins school board is now without a lawyer in her case, after hers was suspended from practicing in federal courts in the Eastern District of Kentucky. Elizabeth Jones sued the school district back in January, after she received a letter from the board's attorney telling her she was not allowed to visit any of the district's schools or a
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 [...]
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (KT) - The Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is offering a reward up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of [...]
Not happy with the state of the world? Sit down and chat a spell with a senior and travel back to a gentler time. A photo of an old chest-style [...]
PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Pikeville Independent Schools and Pikeville High School have a new structure in place for future athletic leadership. The school announced its new members on social media Friday, formally introducing Brad Allen as Director Athletic Director, Shane Simpkins as Assistant Athletic Director for the high school, and two newly placed assistant athletic directors who will split the role
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 [...]
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, [...]
The number of ICE detainees in Kentucky jails has more than doubled, and almost three-fourths of them have no criminal record or pending charges, according to an analysis by the League of Women Voters of Kentucky. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained 1,041 individuals in Kentucky jails in February up significantly from the 434 in [...]
Pending before the U.S. Supreme Court is the case of Monsanto Company v. John Durnell. John Durnell sued Monsanto after contracting non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of cancer, claiming that the company failed to adequately warn of the risks of cancer from the use of a glyphosate-containing product it manufactured. After a state court jury awarded [...]
DELBARTON, W.Va. — A Delbarton man has been charged with murdering his wife. Deputies with the Mingo County Sheriff’s Office were called Friday morning to conduct a welfare check at the home of Leroy Hunt, 35, and Christina Hunt, 26. When they arrived, they found Christina Hunt’s body on the front porch, covered with a blanket. After a brief standoff, Leroy Hunt was arrested. Police say Leroy Hunt
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 [...]
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 [...]
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a GOP-backed bill that would opt Kentucky into a scholarship program for K-12 students promoted by the Trump administration and benefiting from a new federal tax credit. “Kentuckians have said loud and clear: Public dollars should only be used for public education. The Republican supermajority hasn't listened. I have,” [...]
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. - Prestonsburg High School announced Friday that Rick Ward has been named the school's new girls basketball coach. The school said in a Facebook post that Ward is the perfect choice to lead the Lady Blackcats forward. "Coach Ward has been a dedicated member of the Prestonsburg basketball program for the past nine years, playing a key role in helping build the foundation and succe
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 — 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 — 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 [...]
The Economic Development Administration recently approved a five-year grant for SOAR, which the organization is using to address community challenges, including population loss in eastern Kentucky.
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
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
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
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
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 .
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
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
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
While discussion of the proposed landfill dominated the March 3 Pike County Fiscal Court meeting, the court also accepted an audit of the sheriff’s department and set the pay rate for poll workers.
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
Inmates serving time in a Kentucky state prison could spend their days in an intensive, focused program learning a skilled trade, earning certifications, and gaining practical experience that positions them for employment upon release — all while surrounded by people who share th
As work continues in Frankfort during the 2026 Legislative Session, lawmakers are moving legislation through the process while continuing discussions on the state budget and other key priorities for the commonwealth.
Restoration should be clear and consistent in every county
Family members are remembering Bryson Cottongim, a 19-year-old Clay County native who was killed while working as a lineman in Harlan County earlier this week.
The store sells suits, belts, shoes and other apparel. Co-owners Reda and Nicole Fugate, a mother and daughter, opened the business.
Three different federal judges have ordered four more immigrants picked up in January’s ICE raids released on constitutional grounds The post More ICE detainees ordered released by West Virginia judges: ‘A threat to anyone’s constitutional rights is a threat to us all’ appeared first on 100 Days in Appalachia .