Two indicted in connection with theft case
Updated: 6:14 PM Two people in Letcher County have been indicted on charges connected to a military grave marker theft case.
Updated: 6:14 PM Two people in Letcher County have been indicted on charges connected to a military grave marker theft case.
Updated: 8:52 PM United States Attorneys say they will continue to investigate hate crime allegations despite an Eastern Kentucky jury acquitting two men of hate crime charges.
Updated: 6:18 PM Police are still searching for the person who robbed a convenience store in Letcher County Wednesday night.
Posted: 5:21 PM Several acres have burned in Letcher county after a forest fire began last night near Whitesburg, and weather conditions may be partly to blame.
Posted: 5:07 PM Four people were sent to the hospital after a car wreck Thursday morning in Letcher County.
Posted: 10:02 PM Kentucky State Police say there was an armed robbery at the Double Kwik in Neon.
Updated: 8:59 PM A man who was sent to jail for refusing to testify in a federal hate crime trial was on the stand Tuesday morning.
Updated: 7:19 AM The Letcher fiscal court approved a $150,000 project that includes the installation of county water lines in the Shelby Fork and Mill Creek communities. Shelby Fork is where Chris Yonts and his family live. We have reported on Yonts several times in the past because of his battle with coal companies and state officials for his well water being unusable due to high concentrations of lead and arsenic.
Updated: 11:09 AM LETCHER COUNTY, ky. (WYMT) - A death investigation out of Letcher County was presented before the Grand Jury Thrusday, October 18th.
Posted: 10:17 PM A Letcher County couple is suing four coal companies.
Updated: 6:28 PM A Letcher County woman will stay in prison, for now, after a Letcher County judge denied a motion for a new trial due to ineffective counsel.
Posted: 5:27 PM A memorial service is set for a Letcher County man who died in an apartment fire last week.
Posted: 3:56 PM It's time to start picking up Black Walnuts--and a little incremental income.
Updated: 6:36 PM One person is dead after an early morning fire in Letcher County.
Updated: 4:45 PM The Kentucky Division of Forestry is once again preparing for an active wildfire season as lack of rain this summer and increased fuel loads from spring storms could pose problems for fighting fires.
Posted: 3:33 PM Roy Bentley was set to go on trial Monday but it was postponed.
Posted: 5:58 PM People come from across the region to sample the down home atmosphere that takes over the city for one weekend in September.
Posted: 5:43 PM Stevie Wynn pleaded guilty to charges of assault, wanton endangerment, escape and theft by unlawful taking charges in Knott County earlier this month.
Updated: 6:20 PM Cynthia Grace Riddle of Millstone is named in an indictment that accuses her of using false information to obtain a credit card issued by QVC in the name of another woman, then using the card to make purchases.
Updated: 6:21 PM Earlier this month, we told you about military grave markers being stolen from three different cemeteries in Letcher County.
Updated: 3:34 PM If you owe back taxes to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, you may be eligible for some help in paying them back.
Posted: 6:20 PM Donald Terry Bartley pleaded guilty in 1988 to taking part in the August 1985 murder of Tammy Acker and the robbery and attempted murder of her father, Doctor Roscoe Acker, in Letcher County.
Posted: 2:51 AM Jonathan Dean Adams, of Eolia, Ky., is charged with two counts of grand larceny and two counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony, according to a written statement from the Wise County Sheriff's Office.
Posted: 9:00 PM More than ten military markers recently went missing from three different cemeteries in Letcher County.
Updated: 7:53 PM A prestigious institution has ranked Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College as one of the 10 best community colleges in the country.
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