Hazard News

Jan Gibson of the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service was named 2009 Internship Employer of the Year by Morehead State Universitya s Alumni Association Inc.

Thousands of pills, cash and several hand guns are confiscated from the apartment of a former college professor.

More than 150 years after Virginia's last native elk was killed, game officials may try to populate the state's southwest corner with its bigger, buff-colored cousin - the Rocky Mountain elk.

Changes at a Perry County intersection where one person has died and dozens injured in recent years.

ACTION: Magistrates took the following action: Approved minutes of Sept. 22 meeting and Sept.

The governor and first lady will spend three days this week hop-scotching the state for a series of press conferences and town hall meetings on education.

As attacks on mountaintop-removal mining in Appalachia have grown increasingly sharp, the coal industry and its supporters have defended the practice by saying that reclaimed mine areas provide flat land for development in a place where level sites are scarce.

A 22 year old Letcher County woman wanted by the Sullivan County, TN Sheriff's Department has been apprehended by Trooper Randy Surber with KSP Post 13 in Hazard.

As influenza continues to spread, a Kentucky public school system is stretching its scheduled fall break to try to limit transmission of the disease among students.

The first public flu clinics have been scheduled in Kentucky but they will primarily target health care workers in the counties served by the Lake Cumberland District Health Department.

It was a beautiful weekend in the mountains, perfect for spending the day outside.

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

LEXINGTON, Ky. a ' Hoover's Furniture & Interiors is closing its remaining stores here and in Hazard, Ky., citing the housing slump as a contributor to its losses this year, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.

Two Floyd County schools have been vandalized during burglaries. County school superintendent Henry Webb told WYMT-TV in Hazard that money from a school fundraiser was taken during the break-ins at Betsy Layne High School and Betsy Layne Elementary in eastern Kentucky.

Kentucky State Police have charged an eastern Kentucky teenager with murder in the shooting death of a Leslie County man.

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.

Three Perry County transmitters are missing ground copper wiring after it was stolen early this morning.

Since the Dukes of Hazzard ended its six-year run on CBS in 1985, John Schneider has continued to embrace his legacy as Bo Duke with public appearances at events like the World Chicken Festival.

A Pike County has been arrested and charged with distributing more than 10,000 prescription pain pills in eastern Kentucky.

HAZARD, Ky. - Kentucky state police say a 15-year veteran has been placed on administrative leave after shooting and killing a suspect who had pointed a gun at him.