Man indicted by grand jury, accused of endangering police officers
Posted: 3:28 PM Court documents show a Johnson County grand jury indicted.65-year-old Adam Adkins on wanton endangerment charges.
Posted: 3:28 PM Court documents show a Johnson County grand jury indicted.65-year-old Adam Adkins on wanton endangerment charges.
Posted: 4:48 PM A Kentucky doctor admits she prescribed painkillers to patients she did not examine.
Updated: 4:46 PM ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) - Officials in several eastern Kentucky counties are ramping up efforts to create water trails in an effort to attract more tourism.
Updated: 6:18 AM All of the proceeds are going towards Tony Turner Memorial Scholarship fund.
Posted: 9:40 PM Hager Hill Freewill Baptist Church Pastor Ronnie Spriggs is accused of violating federal law when he urged followers to vote President Obama out of office during a May 13th sermon because he supported gay marriage.
Posted: 5:06 PM A Hager Hill pastor, who is under fire by a watch group for comments he made about President Obama, says it was no big deal.
Posted: 4:42 PM A former Paintsville Police Officer is facing drug charges.
Posted: 4:25 PM Johnson County Sheriff Dwayne Price says his department relies heavily on public tips to fight drug crimes. This week those tips led to two large marijuana busts.
Updated: 4:14 PM The Paintsville McDonald's is now open for business.
Updated: 11:28 PM Incumbent Anna Melvin and Michael Hogan were both campaigning to represent Martin, Lawrence, and Johnson Counties.
Updated: 6:59 PM She has been the cornerstone of WYMT's Mountain Family for more than two decades, but come June 1st, WYMT's General Manager Ernestine Cornett will retire.
Posted: 8:46 PM LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A Washington-based watchdog group says an eastern Kentucky Baptist pastor violated federal law when he urged his followers to vote President Barack Obama out of office in November.
Posted: 3:50 PM LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Country music legend Loretta Lynn is three years older than she has led people to believe, an age change that undermines the story she told of being married at 13 in "Coal Miner's Daughter," documents obtained by The Associated Press show.
Updated: 3:29 PM Prestonsburg, KY (May 14, 2012) Nursing students from the Big Sandy Community and Technical College chapter of the Kentucky Association of Nursing Students surprised Pikeville Medical Center with a donation to their pediatric unit on Friday, May 4th.
Posted: 9:19 PM NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Zooey Deschanel is heading to Broadway to portray Loretta Lynn.
Updated: 6:51 PM Midway College's School of Pharmacy will no longer be coming to Paintsville.
Posted: 11:58 PM Just days after the decision by the University of Charleston not to put a branch of its pharmacy school in the mountains, the future of another school is in question.
Posted: 12:06 AM The University of Charleston has decided against opening a branch of its pharmacy school in Kentucky.
Posted: 8:49 PM CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The University of Charleston has decided against opening a branch of its pharmacy school in Kentucky.
Updated: 5:59 PM Governor Steve Beshear signed House Bill 1, known as the "pill mill bill" into law on Tuesday morning. It is designed to fight prescription bill abuse and crackdown on alleged "pill mills."
Updated: 11:46 AM Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes will send a mobile office to eastern Kentucky communities ravaged by tornadoes last month.
Posted: 4:13 PM A Johnson County wrecker service owner was indicted again; this time for alleged insurance fraud.
Posted: 6:39 PM The visitation will continue for an elderly man who was hit and killed by a car over the weekend.
Posted: 5:40 AM Dispatchers tell us it happened sometime Saturday morning near B&W TV in Staffordsville.
Updated: 9:02 AM The City of Gatlinburg hosts a family-friendly event featuring a rock wall and trip giveaway, educates youth on black bears and provides Gatlinburg building black bears to Kosair Children's Hospital.
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