Combs News

The Perry County District Judge cancels a hearing on a murder suspect's request for a mental evaluation.

Attorneys for the man charged with killing a doctor at a Kentucky medical clinic want their client to get a mental evaluation.

A Perry County district judge is considering an agreement between John Carles Combs' defense attorneys and prosecutors seeking a psychiatric evaluation to determine his competency to stand trial.

A man charged in the fatal shooting of a popular community doctor in eastern Kentucky is expected to hear some of the evidence against him Tuesday morning.

A popular Perry County doctor was laid to rest Saturday afternoon. Dr. Dennis Sandlin was shot and killed Tuesday in front of his clinic.

A man accused of killing a Kentucky doctor inside his clinic answered to the charge in court Wednesday.

State Police say a doctor at an eastern Kentucky medical clinic has been fatally shot.

Deborah K. Oliver, a forty-four year old female from 511 Ladder Branch Road was found deceased this morning lying in the ditch line beside Ladder, Branch, Road.

CORNETTSVILLE, Ky. - A "disgruntled patient" shot his doctor to death Tuesday at a rural southeastern Kentucky health clinic and faces a murder charge, officials said.

Police are trying to figure out how a woman died that was found in a ditch. State police say 44-year old Deborah K. Oliver was lying in a ditch beside Ladder Branch Road in the Combs community of Perry County.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Gov. Steve Beshear has made the following appointments to Kentucky boards and commissions: Gov.

Names of both incumbents and new candidates are beginning to surface at the Madison County Clerk's office since the candidate filing window for the 2010 election opened on Nov.

In a move he says is meant to re-energize support for the public schools, Gov. Steve Beshear announced Monday that he is launching a new education initiative aimed at creating a unified vision of what Kentucky schools need to offer in order to better serve students.

Shots rang out in what neighbors call a normally quiet neighborhood after police say a Perry County man tried to kill a woman.

An arrest has been made in a murder that occurred in Knott County in September. The Kentucky State Police arrested Mack Tackett, 26, and charged him with one count of murder in connection with the death of his wife, Heather Tackett.

Miranda Combs, co-anchor of the highly successful 10 p.m. news on Fox affiliate WDKY , is leaving next month to take a public relations job at Preston-Osborne. Combs has been at CBS affiliate WKYT , which produces the Fox news, since October 2002.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer In a vote of three to three with the mayor breaking the tie, the London City Council consented Tuesday night to begin the process of annexing about six square miles of land west of town.

On Tuesday, officers from Kentucky State Police Post 13 Hazard, Operation U.N.I.T.E, Perry County Sheriff Department and Hazard Police Department conducted a controlled buy-bust in the Combs area of Perry County .

On Tuesday, August 18, 2009, KY State Police, Post 13, in Hazard was notified of an accident on KY Hwy 15 in the Glomawr community of Perry County.

Two women are dead after an accident involving a state trooper in Perry County. It happened Tuesday afternoon near Glomawr.