Hyden News

A Leslie County businessman who is now a state representative gave $40,000 to a group of vote-buyers when he first ran for the office in 2002, a witness in a federal vote-fraud trial testified Friday.

A witness in a federal vote-fraud trial testified that a Republican state representative from Hyden paid $40,000 to a group of vote-buyers in 2002.

Kentucky drivers wouldn't be allowed to send text messages from behind the steering wheel under a measure that cleared its first legislative hurdle on Tuesday.

He is one of the top U.S. Military commanders in Haiti. And, he calls Hyden, Kentucky home.

The U.S. military is playing a major role in providing humanitarian relief and security in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, and an Eastern Kentucky University graduate is field commander for the operation.

An Eastern Kentucky man says he heard an alarm go off at a cigarette store that was burglarized and waited for police to arrive.

Forty years ago today, Richard Nixon signed into law new federal safety guidelines enacted in an effort to make coal mining a bit less lethal.

Crews continue to cleanup to the damage from this weekend's winter storms. WYMT is back on the air now, but we will continue to provide the most up to date information VIA www.wymtnews.com. As of Noon on Monday: The following shelters are in operation in 11 counties: Johnson County: Christian Appalachian Project located in Hagerhill, Ky., has ...

Kentucky State Police said Veronica Hubbard of the Stinett community in Leslie County died Sunday afternoon after she was hit with a blast from a 12-guage shotgun.

A 13-year-old Leslie County boy accidentally shot and killed his mother with a 12-gauge shotgun early Sunday afternoon, according to Kentucky State Police.

Laurel Heights Home for the Elderly has had a special place in our hearts since the 1970s.

The annual Mountain Harvest Food Drive is still going on around the area. Food boxes at several of the different donation sites are filling up quickly, and LKLP crews were out today picking up the items.

Work crews have cleared a one-lane path through a massive rock slide across Ky. 2009 in southern Leslie County, the Transportation Cabinet announced Wednesday morning.

A portion of Highway 2009 in Hoskinston, Leslie County is still closed after a massive rockslide came down on the road Saturday.

The Osborne Brothers were one of the most popular and innovative bluegrass groups of the post-war era, taking the music into new directions and gaining a large audience.

Family and friends remember a high school student killed in an ATV accident. Fifteen-year-old Austin Carmack died last night in the Cutshin Community of Leslie County.

Friends and family are mourning the passing of 91-year-old L.B. Stacy, who died Friday.

Heavy rain that caused flooding in areas of eastern Kentucky washed out part of a highway causing school officials to cancel classes in Leslie County for the rest of the week.

Schools in an eastern Kentucky county are closed this week after rain damages roads.

Heavy rain has produced small-stream flooding in eastern Kentucky. The National Weather Service office in Jackson issued flood warnings Wednesday morning for Leslie County and Pike County in southeastern Kentucky, until 11 a.m. The weather service said Kentucky State Police reported water over sections of U.S. 421 south of Hyden and several ...