Governor signs order to get storm victim's needed medicine
Updated: 11:56 PM For the first time, ever, Kentucky's governor signed an executive order Saturday that allows storm victims to get up to a 30-day supply of needed medicine.
Updated: 11:56 PM For the first time, ever, Kentucky's governor signed an executive order Saturday that allows storm victims to get up to a 30-day supply of needed medicine.
Updated: 11:56 AM WEST LIBERTY, Ky. (AP/WYMT) - Kentucky emergency management officials say three more bodies have been found in eastern Kentucky, raising the state's death toll to 18 people killed by violent storms.
Updated: 1:20 AM Some parts of Johnson County were hit pretty hard with yesterday's storms. Most homes along Middle Fork Road at Hager Hill were destroyed.
Updated: 4:05 PM Johnson County Sheriff deputies busted an indoor marijuana growing operation.
Posted: 5:50 PM Crews are tearing down the McDonald's restaurant in Paintsville to make room for a new one.
Updated: 6:45 PM Nashville music executives are looking for the next country music star here in eastern Kentucky!
Posted: 9:01 PM A Johnson County man has died from his injuries after a wreck on Saturday.
Updated: 6:25 PM The Johnson County Sheriff's Department discovered marijuana, prescription pills, and thousands of dollars of cash inside one home in Lowmansville.
Posted: 3:26 PM A Johnson County man died from his injures after a wreck on Saturday.
Updated: 7:23 PM The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed two freshwater mussels – the rayed bean and the snuffbox – as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act. The two mussels are found in river systems in the eastern United States.
Posted: 7:12 PM A sex offender accused of raping and attacking two teenage girls in Paintsville last year has pleaded guilty.
Updated: 10:29 PM Thieves hit an unusual target in Paintsville last week. Police say the Paintsville Funeral Home was burglarized.
Posted: 5:09 PM A man who police say abused a toddler was sentenced on Friday.
Posted: 5:36 PM A Johnson County pain clinic that was raided last week is shut down for good. Paintsville city officials revoked the business license for Caremore Medical Management. The doctor working there also surrendered his Kentucky Medical License.
Updated: 3:28 PM In its ongoing effort to elevate public awareness about heart disease, the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women® movement is teaming up with Emmy-nominated actress Elizabeth Banks to share the truth about the No. 1 killer of women.
Updated: 11:44 PM Police in Johnson County believe three recent robberies are connected.
Posted: 10:57 PM The funeral for a Johnson County man who drowned will be later this week.
Updated: 6:22 PM A Paintsville pain clinic was raided for the second time in a year on Wednesday.
Posted: 9:54 PM A Johnson County business has been robbed for the second time in less than two weeks.
Updated: 4:13 PM FRANKFORT, Ky. —Agriculture Commissioner James Comer today issued a relief payment to a Waynesburg grain farmer who failed to get paid when he sold his grain to a company that filed bankruptcy
Updated: 7:16 PM The Shell Mart on South Mayo Trail in Paintsville was robbed at knifepoint Saturday night.
Posted: 8:41 AM Officers say around 10:30 Saturday night, a man walked into the Shell Mart on South Mayo Trail and demanded money.
Updated: 9:11 AM A Paintsville paramedic was only trying to do her job when her life was tragically taken four years ago.
Updated: 6:24 PM Some local law enforcement officials in the Big Sandy region say budget problems and the new law designed to ease jail overcrowding have shut down their long-term undercover operations.
Posted: 6:06 PM Midway College and the University of Charleston in West Virginia are conducting a study and discussing the University of Charleston School of Pharmacy operating the Paintsville school as a branch of its campus.
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