Updated: 12:51 AM The company will be giving out eight scholarships worth $1,000 each.

Updated: 6:43 PM Some folks in Pike County may have been startled by an unusual sound on Wednesday as officials with Emergency Management tested Pikeville's new outdoor weather warning sirens.

Updated: 10:38 AM The scholarship is awarded to students who are customers or whose parent or guardian is a customer of Appalachian Wireless.

Updated: 8:39 AM An eastern Kentucky boy hoping to break a world record has succeeded, thanks to an overwhelming response.

Posted: 5:11 PM Pikeville Public Safety Director Paul Maynard said that on Wednesday, around noon, they will be testing the outdoor warning siren.

Posted: 2:22 PM Big Sandy RECC asks members to conserve power on Wednesday and Thursday morning form 6 am to 10 am.

Posted: 11:10 PM Two weeks ago, we told you about one Pike County girl who was asking for a different kind of Christmas present this year.

Updated: 9:20 PM A Pike County woman was arrested after police say she inhaled a cleaning product and drove into a subway restaurant.

Posted: 2:19 PM The Board of Trustees for the Appalachian Regional Healthcare system announced the forthcoming retirement of ARH President and Chief Executive Officer Jerry W. Haynes, and named Haynes’ successor.

Updated: 12:20 PM Senator McConnell paid “tribute to an innovative, beneficial, and truly essential organization that serves fellow Kentuckians diagnosed with autism”.

Posted: 10:07 PM The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has awarded a contract for the next step in a project to carve a new U.S. 460 through Pike County.

Updated: 6:05 PM Pike County school nurses are employed through the health department, and officials say state funding has been cut. Now they are running out of money to keep the nurses in place.

Updated: 8:55 AM Highlands Center for Autism was recently honored in the Congressional Record by Senator Mitch McConnell.

Updated: 10:16 AM The Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission will meet on Friday, December 7, 2012 at 10 a.m. EST at the office of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Office of Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, 111 Corporate Drive, Frankfort, Kentucky. The meeting is open to the public, and all are welcome to attend.

Posted: 8:48 PM Louisville Central quarterback Sydney Tedford hit receiver Marcel Malone with a 15-yard touchdown pass in overtime to give the Yellowjackets a 12-6 victory over Belfry in the Kentucky high school Class 3A state championship game on Friday.

Posted: 5:27 PM Hundreds of fans and students sent the team off with a proper goodbye Thursday afternoon.

Posted: 5:17 PM Police say someone broke into a storeroom at Deskins Motors in Pikeville and stole more than $500 worth of tools.

Updated: 6:40 PM The Pikeville City Commission chose to appoint Detective Phillip Reed as Chief of Police.

Posted: 4:56 PM The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has placed four mining operations in three states on notice for repeated violations of health and safety standards.

Updated: 8:20 AM Members asked to conserve power usage on: Wednesday and Thursday Morning from 6 am to 10 am

Posted: 10:25 PM Law enforcement officials spread out across Pike County in an effort to arrest 15 individuals suspected of drug trafficking.

Posted: 6:21 PM On November 6th, Pike County Judge-Executive Wayne T. Rutherford announced two Pike County mines had received new orders for coal.

Updated: 9:57 PM While many kids are busy writing their Christmas letters to Santa, one Pike County 4th grader wants a different kind of present this year.

Posted: 9:01 PM Two inmates now face more jail time after escaping earlier this year.

Posted: 5:27 PM Police are searching for a man who robbed a Pike County gas station.