Letcher News

Jack Conway's campaign for U.S. Senate will once again travel to the eastern region of the state this week, where Conway will unveil another facet of his campaign policy to create jobs and restore fiscal responsibility and accountability to Washington.

Kentucky River Properties is donating half a million dollars to Operation UNITE for drug rehabilitation projects in Leslie, Knott, Letcher and Perry Counties.

JASON EDWARDS/Harlan Daily Enterprise The Cumberland City Council discussed finances during its regular meeting on Tuesday.

A Letcher County man was killed Thursday in a house fire. Kentucky State Police received a call at 6:41 p.m. Thursday that a house was on fire on Tooter Branch Road in the community of Jeremiah in Letcher County, Trooper Jennifer Sandlin said.

Though McCreary County escaped much of the havoc wreaked by heavy snow in Eastern Kentucky and along the Atlantic seaboard, Friday evening still proved a nightmare for local travelers.

Morehead State University has been awarded funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission to continue its work with the Kentucky Appalachian Higher Education Network .

More schools are calling off classes, due to H1N1 and other flu-like symptoms. Now, Pike, Floyd, Breathitt, and Wolfe County schools will be closed the rest of the week.

Kentucky State Police along with sheriff's deputies are investigating 2 assaults in Letcher County.

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.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer The Whitley County school system's week out for illness will not affect the upcoming fall break, said Patrick Bowling, the district's director of pupil personnel.

The Double Quick Marathon convenience store in the Dry Fork community of Letcher County was robbed at knifepoint on Saturday, Kentucky State Police in Hazard said.

One man is dead and his brother shot after an argument Wednesday in Deane in Letcher County.