Updated: 9:25 PM First responders from as far away as Grant County are in Floyd County this weekend getting certified as swift water rescue technicians. The three day course is conducted by the Floyd County Rescue Team and began Friday evening in the classroom with hours of instruction. The final two days are spent in the water doing various skills training and testing.

Updated: 5:14 PM His clinic was beside a school and he was trusted with making sure you were in good health but on Tuesday police arrested a Floyd County doctor on child porn charges.

Updated: 3:34 PM Drug Court officials say they want all of their participants to be free of addiction and now the participants are helping those that provide freedom for all of us.

Posted: 9:44 PM More than 80 golfers were out at StoneCrest Golf Course on Thursday to support the Big Sandy Community and Technical College.

Updated: 4:32 PM A meeting in Prestonsburg was held on Thursday for the second reading of two ordinances to extend the Prestonsburg city limits along U.S. 23 to the Johnson and Pike County lines.

Updated: 8:00 AM The buses were a nearly $1 million investment by the Floyd County School System.

Updated: 5:18 PM Bill Hall was a long time member of the WYMT Mountain Basketball Classic committee.

Updated: 5:40 PM Kentucky State Police say a car hit a utility pole on Abbott Creek Road in Prestonsburg.

Posted: 10:06 PM The park served a special buffet for the day. Park officials say they do this for all holidays but Mothers Day brings the largest crowd to the park.

Posted: 5:24 PM Police are looking for a man who pleaded guilty last week to drunk driving.

Updated: 8:54 PM Thousands of drag racing fans are expected in Eastern Kentucky this weekend.

Posted: 6:35 AM More than 9,600 students will graduate this month from Kentucky's community and technical colleges.

Updated: 3:40 PM All across the country people gathered for the National Day of Prayer which organizers say this year was based off of the scripture reference Matthew 12:21, "In His name the nations will put their hope."

Posted: 5:22 PM Ann and Ralph Davis say they were sitting in their living room Monday night when a car came crashing in.

Updated: 8:16 PM Jay Cox turned 104 years old and is the oldest living World War II Veteran at the VA Outpatient Clinic in Prestonsburg.

Updated: 5:42 PM Construction is underway on the Floyd County Emergency and Rescue Squad's new headquarters. On Saturday, members not only celebrated the squads 56th birthday, but also prepared to begin a new chapter.

Updated: 5:23 PM Four fire departments responded to a home on Jenny Street in Martin. The fire broke out around 10:30 on Friday morning, destroying the second home in less than four months on this particular street.

Updated: 1:06 AM Drilling horizontal oil wells was the topic of Wednesday's meeting of the Kentucky Oil and Gas Association. More than 150 members - many of whom are natural gas producers - learned about what some are calling a lucrative future for horizontal oil drilling on the Berea Sandstone oil play.

Posted: 4:51 PM The mock disaster exercise is used to train first responders and health care providers how to handle chemical weapons spills such as anthrax.

Updated: 10:59 AM A group of students, faculty, and parents from Louisville, were in the mountains helping repair homes in the Big Sandy Region.

Updated: 10:58 AM A grand opening ceremony was held at Archer Park for a new playground on Saturday.

Updated: 7:20 PM A Prestonsburg doctor paid the U.S. government fifty thousand dollars to settle civil claims.

Updated: 5:18 PM The case of a Floyd County couple facing charges in a March murder is moving forward.

Posted: 4:55 PM Communities Against Drug Addiction held their April meeting Tuesday in Prestonsburg.

Posted: 6:39 PM The Cow Creek Bridge Replacement Project will close KY 1428 in Floyd County near the junction of KY 194 for four months beginning Monday, April 15.